All Wilfredo Rivero wanted to do was update his address when he woke up at 3:30 a.m. last week to drive to Sacramento’s immigration office.
He hoped it would move the location of his pending asylum case from Chicago closer to his home in Siskiyou County, said Rivero’s girlfriend Victoria Colmenero.
Instead, he was questioned for hours, arrested and now awaits potential deportation in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility near Bakersfield. Rivero’s family and Colmenero maintain he has no criminal history or gang affiliation in the U.S. or his homeland of Venezuela…