Our horrible immigration system: ICE moves to deport my family's pastor, a father of four

    This is Pastor Max Villatoro, his wife Gloria, and their four kids. Gloria is a legal resident and all four children are American citizens. Max, a native of Honduras, is not. And because of a desperate (and common) mistake he made soon after arriving illegally in this country many years ago, he sits tonight in a jail cell awaiting imminent return to Honduras--a place where he has no one and nothing to return to, far from his family, his church, and the community he greatly enriched.

     I know this is is an all-too common story, that there are many millions of families who have been torn apart or are under threat of being capriciously separated at any time. But it would be difficult to find a clearer example of the brokenness and depravity of our immigration system than the story of this pastor, who has dedicated his life to serving man and God, being wrenched from his loving family and church.

For that reason, I hope you all will help us publicize and fight Max's deportation. It seems to me that even the rightiest of right wingers would be touched by the story of this man of God being cast out so cruelly. And if even a crack of light shines in the darkness, well, it's worth it.

A bit of background over the jump (I refuse to name the orange thing).