Family friends are coordinating the logistics to bring Liliana Navarette back to Chicago this Wednesday, while legal representatives are striving to secure the release of her 18-year-old son from detention.
According to close associates, Liliana and her son, Ricardo, became embroiled in legal trouble following an email summons to an immigration court in Chicago last March, resulting in their arrest.
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For the past nine weeks, both mother and son have been held in custody, transferred through at least eight different detention camps, ultimately landing in Kentucky.
On Tuesday, a federal judge ruled in favor of Liliana’s immediate release, yet Ricardo, a senior at Mather High School, remains detained.
Supporters of the family are now intensifying their efforts to reunite Ricardo with his mother.
“He needs to come home and reconnect with his friends. If we can organize a graduation ceremony for him, the community would gladly do that. He’s greatly missed by everyone here,” expressed family friend Kristy Morrow.
Morrow says before Ricardo and his mother were detained, they had been awaiting their asylum trial.
Now, they are hoping he can be released in time for his high school graduation next Friday.
Kristy says he had plans to play soccer next year at Truman Junior College.
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