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U.S. NEWS Friday 8 June 2018

Military base calls immigration

agents on pizza delivery man

By CLAUDIA TORRENS their dad is not coming said.
Associated Press home." Chica said this was not
NEW YORK (AP) — He Gov. Andrew Cuomo the first time Villavicencio
went from delivering pizza condemned Villavicencio's delivered pizza at the base.
to being detained by detention on Thursday, "What prompted them to
immigration officers. saying "it goes against call ICE?" she asked. "They
An Ecuadorean restaurant everything we believe in". only care about statistics,
worker making a delivery to "Detaining a hardworking one more deported man.
an Army garrison in Brooklyn man, separating a father They don't care about the
wound up being detained from his children and tearing impact this will have on us."
June 1 after a routine apart communities doesn't Immigrant family advocacy
background check at the make America safe, and a groups like Make the Road
gate revealed there was wrong minded immigration New York have called for
a warrant for his arrest for policy grounded in bias an investigation. Steven
immigration law violations, and cruelty doesn't make Choi, executive director of
officials said. America great," he said in the New York Immigration
Now, Pablo Villavicencio is a statement. Coalition, said in a press
in Immigration and Customs Cuomo, a Democrat, release "it's absolutely
Enforcement custody also offered Villavicencio disgusting when the
pending removal from the and his family free legal strongest military in the
country, ICE spokeswoman representation and services world punches down by In this undated family photo provided by Sandra Chica, Pablo
Villavicencio poses with his two daughters, Luciana, left, and
Rachael Yong Yow said. through the Liberty Defense going after pizza delivery Antonia.
Villavicencio's wife, Sandra Project, a state-led project men."q Associated Press
Chica, said he went to assist immigrants.
to deliver pizza to Fort Chica, who was born in
Hamilton last week and Colombia and moved to
was asked for identification the U.S. a decade ago,
by the guard who received said she is a U.S. citizen. She
him. and Villavicencio have two
Villavicencio, who worked daughters, who are 3 and
at Nonna Delia's pizzeria, 2 years old and were born
an hour away by car in in the U.S.
Queens, produced a city Chica and the two
identification card, but the girls attended a news
official told him he wanted conference in front of the
to see a state driver's army base Wednesday
license. along with Brooklyn Borough
An Army spokeswoman President Eric Adams and
told The New York Times City Councilman Justin
that if visitors don't have a Brannan. Both politicians
military identification card, said they were seeking
they have to get a pass answers from Fort Hamilton.
that requires a background "Is our city, state and nation
check. The check on any safer today because
Villavicencio showed there they took a pizza delivery
was an active ICE warrant guy off the streets?" asked
on file, at which point he Brannan.
was detained by military Yong Yow, the ICE
police, said Fort Hamilton spokeswoman, said
spokeswoman Catherine that in March 2010
SantoPietro. Villavicencio was granted
"This is unhuman," Chica voluntary departure by
said during a phone an immigration judge but
interview. "He was not failed to depart by July, as
committing any crime. He ordered.
is a father who is working "As such, his voluntary
for his daughters. Every day departure order became a
our daughters ask me why final order of removal," she