This week brings another heart-wrenching story of a local man, who was undocumented but who is married to a US citizen and has spent decades battling to get legal status, who has been thrown into ICE detention.

As KTVU reports, 47-year-old Livermore resident Miguel Angel Lopez Luvian was taken into custody by ICE in San Francisco last week and quickly shuttled to a dentention facility 250 miles away in Southern California. His wife, Rosa Lopez, tells KTVU that her husband had gone into the immigration office in San Francisco for a routine status check-in appointment, as he has done for years, when he was detained.

"He called me and he told me to contact his lawyer because he was being detained. And I was like, you're lying, right?" Rosa Lopez tells the station.

This happened on May 27, the same day that ICE appeared to be conducting other potentially extra-legal actions outside immigration courtrooms in San Francisco, and Lopez says her husband's phone then went dead. He later contacted her from an ICE detention facility in McFarland, California, 30 miles north of Bakersfield, and he said that some of the other detainees said they had been there for months, per KTVU.

The couple has been married since 2001 and have known each other since they were teenagers. Lopez says her husband was brought to the States with his parents when he was 18, from Mexico City, and they were undocumented. Despite her being a US citizen, Miguel has been unable to get a green card for some reason — she tells KTVU that their application was denied, and he was later granted legal residency but then that was revoked by a court.

The couple has three children and a grandchild, and Miguel Lopez Luvian works at a winery in the Bay Area. He has been living in the Livermore area for 27 years. His attorney, Saad Ahmad of Fremont, tells KTVU that they had an active appeal pending in Lopez Luvian's immigration case in US District Court, after appeals to the Ninth Circuit and Supreme Court were tossed back.

Rosa Lopez says her husband has always played by the rules, paid taxes, and was the sole breadwinner for the family.

Ahmad says that Lopez Luvian's case raises major constitutional issues if he is denied his day in court.

Should Lopez Luvian be deported, his will be one of likely thousands of cases happening right now in which undocumented — and sometimes documented — individuals are reportedly being denied due process by the Trump Administration.

As the New York Times reports today, deportation flights out of the US appear to be ramping up, peaking at 50 per week — transporting around 850 detainees per day — to countries including Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. There have reportedly been at least 100 deportation flights to Mexico since Trump took office.

A protest is being held Wednesday, June 4, at Livermorium Plaza at 6 pm to call for the release of Lopez Luvian. Family and friends have started a GoFundMe to raise money for his legal battle, which so far has raised $17,000.

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