Erik Payan owns a tire store and does not have a felony report. He was one in all round 100 folks detained final month.
HOUSTON — A grandfather and tire store proprietor who bought swept up throughout immigration operation within the Colony Ridge subdivision final month is now again at house along with his household after with the ability to put up bond.
Erik Payan bought house Friday evening and we had been there in north Harris County for the reunion.
Payan and his spouse, Alejandrina, have been right here within the US for 21 years, and now that he is been launched, his lawyer says she is combating to safe his authorized standing.
Payan was being held at an immigration detention facility. He was amongst greater than 100 others arrested on February 24 throughout an ICE operation in Colony Ridge.
ICE brokers confirmed as much as Payan’s tire store and took him to a detention facility in Montgomery County the place he had been till Friday.
Payan is the only real breadwinner of his household. He owns a tire store and has no felony report. He tells me he felt helpless.
Silvia Mintz, an immigration lawyer, took on his case totally free after studying what occurred.
“Mr. Payan is just not a felony,” she stated. “And the general public who had been detained in Colony Ridge haven’t any felony report.”
His launch comes after she put a bond bundle collectively and a choose granted him a $5,000 bond, which he needed to pay in full. The neighborhood pitched in.
Mintz stated the immigration case continues and that he has avenues to repair his authorized standing.
Now, again along with his household, he will get to rejoice his daughter’s birthday with these he loves probably the most, a reminiscence they’re going to maintain on to without end.
Mintz tells us she is engaged on a cancellation of removing to cease his deportation. Due to his ties to the neighborhood, lack of a felony report, and good ethical character, he’ll seemingly have the ability to keep and repair his authorized standing.
