Inexplicable Deportation of Visually-Impaired Father Dashes His Hopes for Legal Status
Luis Antonio Perez-Morales almost certainly could have been among those whose lives were changed by the June 2012 immigration order that gave reprieve from deportation to people brought illegally to the United States as children. When Perez-Morales was 8 years old, his parents brought him from Mexico to Texas, and the state has been his home ever since.
“I remember me asking the Border Patrol why were they going to send me to Mexico if I didn’t even know that country,” Perez-Morales said. He hadn’t been back to Mexico in more than a decade. He grew up speaking English and going to school in Austin. In the evenings, he does housekeeping work in office buildings.
But in July 2013, he was deported to Mexico, leaving behind his two-year-old son Alexander, who is a U.S. citizen. Now, in a legal Catch 22, he’s no longer eligible for the status he probably could have gotten before he was deported.
“Luis’ case is a disaster,” said his Austin-based attorney, Jose “Chito” Vela. “It is one of the worst cases of Border Patrol abusing their authority that I have seen. Not in the personal abuse of him, but in the complete disregard for his rights that they showed, especially given that he had an obvious and serious disability.” Perez-Morales is blind in his left eye and has only partial vision in his right eye.
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