Updates on my brother/Corrections
Thanks to everyone who has reached out to help. My family is very appreciative.
Updates: It's been 18 hours, and we haven't been allowed to speak to him. Neither has his lawyer. No one even knows where he's being held. The ICE officer who arrested him isn't returning any calls.
Dong's lawyer informed us that if they searched his room and found his passport, they would deport him immediately, because the paperwork (for getting a passport) would already be done. One of my brothers searched his room. His passport was nowhere to be found. He also had no money at all in his room. ICE confiscates all money as well. This is not looking good.
I wrote everything this morning in one sitting, all based on memory. There were a few factual errors. None of which have any actual consequence, but here are the corrections from my mom:
-Ut came 2/2/89, not 2/2/88.
-Dong owed the mafia $30,000 (not $20,000), plus interest which was 33%. They gave him credit for earning $1,000/mo for working 18 hr. day/ 7 day/wk. He and 5 or 6 (not 12) other immigrants slept in an attic/crawl space (not studio apartment) above the restaurant. He actually called us a few days (not hours) before and said he wanted to run away and asked if we could come get him.
-The lawyer that was killed was an immigration lawyer who worked against the Snake Heads, but she wasn't his lawyer. It happened on the day before she went to trial, around the same time he was to do so. Hence the confusion.
-When he received his Work Permit, he also received a letter stating that he would receive a Green Card within 12 months.
-He applied for asylum immediately when he came to live with us, but his court date hadn't come up yet when he turned himself over to the Snake Heads (with the blessing of INS.) He was supposed to go to court after he went to NY, but they didn't let him go. The immigration court denied his request and issued an order for deportation. It wasn't issued after 9/11--it was issued in 1995 (In 2002, the situation was made to look more bleak. Deportations were starting to be enforced. I thought it was issued then). Since that time he has spent thousands of dollars on lawyers and has done everything possible to have his case heard or to get a work permit and green card.
Updates: It's been 18 hours, and we haven't been allowed to speak to him. Neither has his lawyer. No one even knows where he's being held. The ICE officer who arrested him isn't returning any calls.
Dong's lawyer informed us that if they searched his room and found his passport, they would deport him immediately, because the paperwork (for getting a passport) would already be done. One of my brothers searched his room. His passport was nowhere to be found. He also had no money at all in his room. ICE confiscates all money as well. This is not looking good.
I wrote everything this morning in one sitting, all based on memory. There were a few factual errors. None of which have any actual consequence, but here are the corrections from my mom:
-Ut came 2/2/89, not 2/2/88.
-Dong owed the mafia $30,000 (not $20,000), plus interest which was 33%. They gave him credit for earning $1,000/mo for working 18 hr. day/ 7 day/wk. He and 5 or 6 (not 12) other immigrants slept in an attic/crawl space (not studio apartment) above the restaurant. He actually called us a few days (not hours) before and said he wanted to run away and asked if we could come get him.
-The lawyer that was killed was an immigration lawyer who worked against the Snake Heads, but she wasn't his lawyer. It happened on the day before she went to trial, around the same time he was to do so. Hence the confusion.
-When he received his Work Permit, he also received a letter stating that he would receive a Green Card within 12 months.
-He applied for asylum immediately when he came to live with us, but his court date hadn't come up yet when he turned himself over to the Snake Heads (with the blessing of INS.) He was supposed to go to court after he went to NY, but they didn't let him go. The immigration court denied his request and issued an order for deportation. It wasn't issued after 9/11--it was issued in 1995 (In 2002, the situation was made to look more bleak. Deportations were starting to be enforced. I thought it was issued then). Since that time he has spent thousands of dollars on lawyers and has done everything possible to have his case heard or to get a work permit and green card.
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