ORLANDO, Fla. (WFLA) – US citizens living in Florida with their 10-year immigrant husband may have to self-promotion to keep their families together.
NBC affiliate WESH reported that the couple went through a legal immigration process, but her husband’s case was dumped earlier this year.
Now they have to make the tough decision to leave Orlando and move their family to Honduras.
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“Family is really, really important. I didn’t grow up with a good family. Growing up with my girl is the most important thing to me. I can’t see him come back alone,” Lindsay Court said.
Jose Rodriguez Lopez told Wesh that he has lived in the country for 20 years with a clean record.
“For those who don’t live this, they don’t understand the negative effects this situation will have,” Rodriguez Lopez said.
The couple said they were about to get an I-130.
Wesh reported that Rodriguez Lopez had interviewed him for scheduled March as the Trump administration tightened its enforcement.
“That’s when they started detaining everyone. We advised the lawyers. She told me not to go to the interview, she’d reschedule it for us,” Court said.
However, the appointment was not rescheduled. The family later learned that their lawsuit had been cast.
“Because I couldn’t prove I was a citizen. I gave my birth certificate and passport despite being born in New Hampshire,” Court said.
The news station reported that Rodriguez Lopez was to report to immigrants, where a new lawyer said he would be taken into custody.
Their only option is to inform the government to self-promotion, Wesh reported.
“This is the last thing we want to do, but I can’t even imagine what I’ll go through if he’s in prison. I don’t know what to tell my daughter,” Court said.
