Rudy Villeda Mejía has his own roofing business, a wife and three stepchildren in Washington, near the state’s border with Canada.
He has never been charged with a crime. He entered the U.S. without authorization for a second time in 2010 after he was kidnapped by a violent cartel in Mexico, and has been in the U.S. since then, according to a notarized personal statement Villeda Mejía submitted with his visa application, which Newsline reviewed.
Villeda Mejía attended routine check-ins with immigration officials in Seattle for more than a decade. But U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Villeda Mejía at the Denver International Airport on March 30, and he has since been in custody at the ICE detention center in Aurora…