Forty-one thousand.Carlos Humberto Cardona, 48, was one of about 41,300 people ICE agents took into custody during the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
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[Cardona] put his health on the line to help remove hazardous material from Ground Zero — and now immigration authorities want him removed from the country over a 30-year-old criminal case.
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Cardona didn't think twice about being part of the 9/11 clean-up effort, his wife [Liliana] said.
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“He inhaled fumes (at the World Trade Center site). His health ended up being affected. He has lung problems. He has gastrointestinal problems. He has psychological issues. He has a lot of anxiety,” she said.
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In 1990, Cardona pleaded guilty to an attempted drug sale count in New York.
“He was standing next to a friend when that happened. It wasn't his,” his wife said.
Cardona has had no convictions since.
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Last week, [Rajesh Barua, Cardona’s attorney] filed a legal action asking a Brooklyn federal judge to make the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services hurry and decide a basic 2014 application verifying his marriage to Liliana, who is a naturalized U.S. citizen.
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“He’s scared of going back to Colombia."
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Liliana said Cardona fled to the United States in 1986 at age 17. His two older brothers were police officers who'd been killed by anti-government rebels when Colombia was deep in a decades-long civil war.
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Cardona was taken into custody during a February check-in with immigration authorities and has been held at Hudson County Correctional Facility in New Jersey.
New York Daily News
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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