Film director from Brazil faces deportation after sly move by ICE

On September 16, Barbara Gomes Marques May and her husband came to the Los Angeles Federal Migration Building because they believed it would be the last step in the process of getting Marques May’s green card.

Tucker May went smoothly the interview process. But towards the end, a federal immigrant official he met said that Marques May needed to follow him to photocopy his passport. He and her husband believed that the journey would be short and they could leave.

Instead, he arrested Marques May, a 38 -year -old Brazilian citizen, who does not have a criminal record and a film director in Los Angeles. Before he was sent to Louisiana, he was transferred to the Ice facility in Adelanto in San Bernardino district. Meanwhile, his husband and his lawyer tried to stop his deportation.

On Wednesday, Marques May was scheduled to take a flight to his country at 6:00, but his lawyer was able to make a move to reopen his deportation and at least to temporarily keep him in the USA. His lawyer said he had moved to Arizona on Thursday and would return to California, while deportation operations remained open.

“This is a very ongoing nightmare, Tucak Tucker said in an interview this week.

The Ministry of Interior Security officials did not respond to the request for a comment on Marques May’s case.

According to his lawyer Marcelo Gondim, Marques may come to the United States in 2018 with a tourist visa. Gondim said he had applied for an extension, but was rejected. The authority exceeded his visa excessively and said in 2019 that the government had sent a notification for a court hearing to start deportation transactions.

However, Marques May moved and did not keep his address up to date with the immigrant court, and that’s why the letter never reached him, dedi he said. As it appeared, the government ordered him to lift against him.

In April 2025, the couple got married and started to apply for a green card. Under Biden’s administration, US citizenship and immigration services told Marques that there was a lifting order for him and he led him to solve him.

Excessively a visa is not accepted as a criminal offense and penalties are given if a person leaves the country. In cases with married couples, Gondim said that there was an automatic forgiveness to overcome a visa that brands may be appropriate.

However, instead of the Trump administration, he used courtes and citizenship and immigration services offices to participate in the mass arrests of immigrants who participated in compulsory hearing and appointments. Soon, USCIS will be expanded forces.

In September, the Ministry of Internal Security issued a new directive to allow the agency that manages and supervises immigration applications to implement the immigration law with “special agents”. The order comes into force on Monday.

“Instead of directing the interior security investigation of USCIS, USCIS, USCIS, Migration and Customs Protection, investigations will have the capacity to support DHS efforts by making investigations from start to finish” He said in a statement.

After Marques May was arrested, May fought to understand where the federal authorities sent his wife. Finally, he was able to contact him, and when he was arrested in La, he detained that he had drowned in tears and took a selfie next to an ice agent.

During the transfer between the detention facilities, he said he was exposed to harsh conditions, including how he went without food or water for more than 12 hours and access to bathrooms without toilet paper. He was given only bread and water and apple several times.

Marques May, who had surgery for chronic back problems this year, said that medical treatment was also rejected for a device used to manage pain. May, after being arrested after being arrested, opened to the public, because he had escaped all legal means.

“For this country, a clear disdain is shown by ICE for the basic legal rule,” he said.

May started Publish about online arrestto get hundreds of answers and support. There was a waof page He collected more than $ 50,000 As of Thursday. US Representative Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park), who considers Marques May as one of the voters, said, “I demand that he has done everything possible to prevent deportation and the ice follow the law.”

“Unfortunately, Barbara’s case is not unique, but reflect a wider model under Trump’s illegal and cruel migration policies” Published on X.

Gondim, repeatedly trying to prevent the transfer of facilities other than California, to find legal documents and delays to sign legal documents only to sign the ice authorities. He was transferred from Adelanto to Arizona and then to Louisiana.

The government does not do anything wrong by following the lifting order, “they cannot prevent the person from accessing the lawyer and offer their case to make some kind of relief. [so they] Do not be unjustly deported. “

To stop the deportation of Marques May, I made separate movements to reopen its deportation and end deportation. Gondim said that Ice could not deport it until a judge ruled the case. He said he was hopeful that he would finally be released.

“There is already a petition from the US citizen’s husband and there is a clear way to make a new application. [application] And he gets his green card, ”he said, a judge of an immigrant court will not be interested in suing against a person who must be approved by laws for permanent residence.

He said that until then, May, his wife’s first feature film was waiting until it was released. In 2021, Marques made a premiere of his short film “Pretas için at the Culver Theater for La Brazil Film Festival. The film focuses on black women and has a message of experiences in racism and a more racist society.

“I love Los Angeles so much” He said in an interview In that case. “I couldn’t be happier. It was a gala that I didn’t expect.”

May said it was the love of a common film that tied the pair in a dating application. They discussed most of their time together, sharing popcorn, and then discussed what did not work and what did not work in the movies.

May said that he is now thinking of all immigrants who do not make any crime but lack legal resources to avoid deportation.

“These are the people with these terrible things happen,” he said. “If someone reads such stories, if they think that this is not valid for them, I beg these people to think about what they think next, because they are not married to an immigrant.”