Hillsborough resident Teresa Gallegos teared up as she remembered accompanying her son Isaac to a routine asylum appointment at the Department of Homeland Security offices in Charlotte. Her son wouldn’t return home with her.
On Oct. 7, ICE officers detained Isaac Gallegos, an Honduran asylum seeker with no criminal record, at an annual check-in appointment.
“We very much believe in God and are hoping that he will perform a miracle and that my will soon be out of there,” Gallegos told WUNC News in Spanish. “We didn’t imagine we would receive all of this support.”…