Ismael Ayuzo Sandoval is pictured in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement booking photo.
Article Summary
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement rejected a stay filed on behalf Ismael Ayuzo Sandoval. Now, he faces return to Mexico where he fears violence from drug traffickers.
- ICE moved Ayuzo to Greene County Jail in Springfield, Missouri, last week to begin the process of deportation.
- Ayuzo’s apprehension by ICE agents on Oct. 29 launched protests in the small Metro East town of Staunton where his supporters say he was heavily involved in the community.
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Business owner and father Ismael Ayuzo Sandoval is preparing for his deportation to Mexico — a country he left decades ago and where his attorney said he is afraid to return because of cartel violence, citing, in part, his cousin’s murder at the hands of drug traffickers.
Ayuzo, 41, was moved to Greene County Jail in Springfield, Missouri, last week after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer rejected Ayuzo’s claim of reasonable fear and an immigration judge concurred, according to Marleen Suarez, Ayuzo’s attorney…