After months in ICE detention, federal judge squashes dream of family reunion in Coral Springs

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CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — A national migration justice denied the petition of a begetter who has 3 U.S.-born children with peculiar needs waiting for him successful Coral Springs, an migration lawyer said connected Thursday.

Dante Lopez’s lawsuit is portion of a statistic that migration advocates person warned about: Asylum denial rates person surged this twelvemonth arsenic the United States adopts much restrictive policies.

Local 10 News covered Lopez’s unexpected detention in aboriginal February, his loved one’s contention to get him ineligible practice in aboriginal March, and however the accent of being distant from his household for months astatine antithetic facilities started to impact his wellness by mid-July.

Lopez’s lawsuit is among the galore that person changed successful South Florida since President Donald Trump was elected for a 2nd word and ordered his medication to prioritize wide deportations.

Following Lopez’s attraction has been hard for his heartbroken relatives, friends, co-workers, and neighbors. Many of them inactive don’t recognize wherefore migration authorities are not allowing Lopez to travel backmost location to his household successful Coral Springs.

Lopez had been surviving successful Broward for astir 15 years and had been gathering with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement regularly since helium applied for asylum. His lawsuit was pending erstwhile national agents -- wearing slug vests and equipped to the teeth -- frightened his woman and children, and outraged his neighbors.

Before Lopez became a father, helium was among the migrants who had recovered refuge successful the U.S. erstwhile Peru bore the brunt of the leftist guerrilla Shining Path’s unit successful the 1990s. He was deported backmost to Peru aft helium learned that the U.S. Visa that his parents had utilized to get him to information had expired.

Lopez said helium faced threats again successful Peru, truthful to rejoin his household and household friends, helium crossed the U.S. borderline without authorization. His lawyer said that speech from this, Lopez doesn’t person a transgression grounds successful the U.S. His plea for compassion went unheard. During his migration tribunal proceeding connected Wednesday, a national justice said helium didn’t person capable grounds to beryllium credible fear, his lawyer said.

Lopez’s asylum lawsuit came to an extremity with the judge’s denial. Lopez awaits his deportation to a state helium hasn’t considered location successful decades. His U.S.-born children and his woman faced the bittersweet world of a household reunion distant from location successful Coral Springs.

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Local 10 News Digital Journalist Andrea Torres contributed to this report.

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