It seemed his hard work was paying off when he was accepted into the carpenters apprenticeship program at the KML Carpenters Training Center in the winter of 2024. The promise of working construction wasn’t as alluring as being an engineer, but it was a step up the ladder. His family was elated.
Then, this year, Jesus’s life was thrown into chaos. On July 8, he went for a customary check-in at the ICE Pittsburgh field office. But he was detained and sent to the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Phillipsburg, three hours away from where the family lives.
Jesus’s detention resembles thousands of other stories that are quickly defining American society in the age of Trump deportations. It has shaken his church community and inspired local leaders, union representatives, and Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh retired Bishop David Zubik to write more than twenty letters on his behalf.
This is Stephen Miller's dream come true. The game plan is not instill fear in the immigrant community and to remove as many "non-whites" from our society as possible. Honestly, the tactics mirror NAZI Germany in the 1930's, and we know how that turned out. The US is becoming the Hungary of the West. We will soon be a democracy in name only with rigged election, state controlled media, and an executive controlled judiciary.