Father Deported En Route To His Sick Child

Pro Publica
June 2, 2017


Early last Monday morning, Oscar Millan's longtime partner called him from a Boston hospital, weepy with relief.

Their son, Oscar Matias, had been born two weeks earlier with a serious condition that prevented food from traveling from his stomach to his small intestine.
But that morning, he'd undergone a successful surgery to repair it, and a second (surgery) was scheduled for early June.
Millan told his partner, Evanice Escudero, that he'd be by to pick them up in a couple of hours, after checking in on a landscaping job he had to do that day.

But Millan, a 37-year-old undocumented Mexican immigrant, never made it to the hospital.

As he drove to the job site, he was picked up by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who were looking for him near his home in Framingham, Massachusetts, about 20 miles outside of Boston.

In 2008, an immigration judge had ordered Millan deported after a failed asylum claim, but Millan had stayed in the country with his family until he recently had pleaded guilty to driving under the influence.

An ICE spokesman said that Millan's arrest was prompted by both the deportation order and the conviction.

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