DREAM activist’s mother and brother arrested after raid

[Playinghardball]

Immigration officials arrested the family of an activist fighting for immigration reform on Thursday, reported Talking Points Memo.

After raiding the home of Erika Andiola — who co-founded the DRM Action Coalition and is an outspoken advocate of the DREAM Act, which would offer young undocumented individuals a pathway to citizenship — Immigrations and Customs Enforcement arrested her mother and brother.

While Andiola and her brother have some legal status in the country under the Deferred Action for Child Arrivals program, their mother, Maria Arreola, does not.

The pair are scheduled to be released soon, but Andiola herself is not sure why immigration went after her mother. ICE referred Andiola to a 1998 removal order. Her mother was also fingerprinted last month after she was pulled over for speeding and had no identification, which means that the police could have notified immigration officials of the traffic stop.

In a video she recorded after the arrests, Andiola recounted the raid.

“They said they were not going to do anything to her. My mom came outside and they took her, for no reason, and then they asked me if my brother was related to me and I said yes, he’s my brother. And they just took him. They just took him and they didn’t want to tell me why, they just said that they needed to go because they were here illegally and that they shouldn’t be here.”

“This needs to stop, we need to do something, we need to stop separating families, this is real, this is so real,” she said.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/11/dream-activists-mother-and-brother-arrested-after-raid/

[malissa]

1. HELP?

This is crap! i would like to be able to get in touch with this girl to find out who she talked to because they had deported my husband 2 years ago and nobody gave a damn whether he was our only provider..or how many children of ours would be effected or that they were sending him back to a country where his brother had been kidnapped by the POLICE that is part of the gang payroll and extorted us for 3,000 dollars or they were going to kill him.....my husband paid his taxes WITH HIS OWN GOVERNMENT NUMBER! He knows ENGLISH! and we have been married for 7 years and im a UNITED STATES CITIZEN(WHITE WOMAN) and they didnt care about nothing and not to mention i am disabled and can not work. But they still took him back because the asylum officer could not find no proof that this sort of things happen in Honduras. so PLEASE I WANT TO KNOW WHO TO CALL TO BE ABLE TO GET MY HUSBAND BACK SINCE THEY LET HER MOTHER GO AND SHE HAD A DEPORTATION ORDER IN EFFECT! NOT RIGHT AT ALL!!!!!

[DogPawsBiscuitsNGrav]

2. These are awful stories and it's ignorance that keeps this going.

They need to provide documents to those who are here and working. They're a big part of our little economy and we all know it. You think it's bad now? You better think twice before sending to many back.