Chinese man arrested when he shows up to US immigration interview, fears deportation
Xiu Qing You, a 39-year-old Queens, New York resident, is in a New Jersey detention facility
A Chinese immigrant with a young American family in New York fears deportation after being arrested when he showed up for a green card interview.
Xiu Qing You, a 39-year-old Queens resident, was being held on Saturday in a New Jersey facility run by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
Also being held there is an Ecuadorean pizza shop employee arrested two weeks ago while making a delivery to an Army garrison in Brooklyn.
You applied for asylum after he first arrived in the United States 18 years ago, saying he feared being persecuted for his Catholic faith if he returned to China, according to the New York Daily News. When asylum was denied, he was issued a deportation order in 2002 with which he didn’t comply.
The Trump administration has come down hard on such cases.
At home, You has a four-year-old son and a six-year-old daughter born in the United States.
His wife, Yu Mei Chen, told The Daily News that she’s been in touch with her husband by phone, and “I have never seen him cry in my life; he misses the kids so much.”