Husband Begs for Immigration Bail Bond after 11 Months

After 11 months without his wife and daughter, Oscar Herrera of El Salvador pleads the government to give his wife and daughter an immigration bail bond.

In June 2014, Herrera’s wife Karen Morales Sanchez and their eight-year-old daughter Yoana made a 1,600 mile trip to the U.S.-Mexico Border where they were apprehended. The mother and daughter were placed in the Karnes County Residential Center, a family immigration detention center in Karnes City, Texas, where they were denied an immigration bail bond.

From October 2013 to September 2014, over 68,000 unaccompanied migration children and an addition 68,000 migrant woman with their children entered the United States illegally. As a response to the influx for illegals crossing the border, the Obama Administration used a “deterrent” strategy by holding previously deported aliens without an immigration bond. Mr. Herrera’s wife and daughter were amongst many illegal immigrations that faced this consequence.

Letters from immigrant advocates, family members of detained immigrants and even the detained illegal immigrant themselves have been sent to members of Congress and President Obama asking for immigration bail bonds.

A federal judge maybe overriding the current “no release” policy in place for detained immigrants as many argue that it violated the Flores Settlement – the requirement to place illegal children in less restrictive detention centers or to be placed with a family member while in an ICE detention center.