PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) – A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died. The family said he was hospitalized shortly after being deported, while they were still fighting to bring him home.
“They threw my dad out like an animal, and now I have no dad,” said Eric Martin San Juan.
Eric Martin San Juan said that after a long battle to get his father, Paulino Martin San Pedro, back to Beaverton after being detained in November, his father ultimately died. Martin San Pedro was detained in November, deported to Mexico within days, then hospitalized and died of pneumonia shortly thereafter at age 53…