Father of New Zealand woman held in US by Ice along with six-year-old son voices hope for release | New Zealand
The father of the new Zealand woman, held in the US immigration detention center for three weeks with his six -year -old son, is hopeful that the couple will be released by the end of the week.
The US immigration and Customs Protection (ICE) detained Sarah Shaw and his youngest son after trying to re -enter the United States from Canada on 24 July.
Shaw had left their two largest children to Vancouver Airport, so that when his father received a phone call with Rod Price panic, they could make a direct flight to New Zealand for a holiday with his grandmother and grandfather.
“He went back to the United States, and then I got a crazy call to say that he was detained and said, ‘They’re about to get my phone out of me’ and ‘they’re locking me for the night’.” Local publisher rnz.
On Thursday, his friend Victoria Besancon said that the Guardian received documents that Shaw would be released, but the immigration center has not yet confirmed the details to Shaw’s lawyer.
Price was confident and said Shaw would be released at the New Zealand time on Friday afternoon.
The ice confiscated Shaw’s phone and carried him and his son to a Dilaley immigration center in Southern Texas, many states away from his home in Washington.
Besancon said the ordeal was “terrible .. “It’s really like being in prison … It was absolutely destructive and a little barbarian.”
Shaw has what is known as the “Komo Card–an I-360 approval that can give the employment authority obtained through employment at the safety children’s facility and the status of immigration to victims of domestic violence.
Shaw, who has been living in Washington for more than three years, recently received a letter that confirms the renewal of the “Komo Card” renewal without realizing that the I-360 element of its visa was still in waiting.
Shaw’s lawyer Minda Thorward, Local Media in Seattle There was a simple administrative error and the Border Patrol had the authority to evacuate the US on conditional. Meanwhile, the children had the right travel documents to enter the United States.
“Absolutely there was no reason [her son] to be detained. This is indisputable, Thor Thorward said.
New Zealand said that he was in contact with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Shaw, but he could not comment more about the case due to privacy problems.
Guardian contacted ICE and the US Embassy in New Zealand to comment.
Shaw’s case is the latest case in an increasing foreign list that faces questioning, arrest and deportation on the US border British touristthree Germans Lucas Sielaff– Fabian Schmidt and Jessica Brösche, And one Canadian And Australia Although it was a valid business visa, each was kept and then deported.
