Thread: Prayer, a call to action for undocumented immigrant

Prayer, a call to action for undocumented immigrant

Hearing for Julio Tellez set for Wednesday in Cleveland

CARTHAGE - "I am nervous. My heart is pounding really hard. Today I can be here. Next week I might be somewhere else."

Julio Tellez, 24, surrounded by more than 30 supporters - some family, some friends and some people who've never met him before - stood on the altar at San Carlos Borromeo Church on Monday night.

They'd come to show support and pray for Tellez - an undocumented immigrant who has lived in the United States since he was 8 - less than 48 hours before he'd stand in front of a federal immigration judge in Cleveland. His hearing will be 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Tellez is a 2005 graduate of Hamilton High School and former engineering student at Miami University-Hamilton campus. He was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Belmont County, Ohio, in January 2008. The minivan carrying Tellez and four other Hispanic men back from a construction job in Pittsburgh broke down on Interstate 70.

Tellez was served with an order to appear, not a deportation order.

He is the sole breadwinner in his family - his mother, who is disabled and undocumented, and a younger brother and sister who both are U.S. citizens. Their father was deported. Tellez has a drywall and construction company.

"Julio stepped in and took care of us," said his sister, Natalia. "He has supported us in everything. He has done nothing wrong."

Most of the people in the church were Hispanic, yet many were non-Hispanic whites. Lois Gish, 59, a retired midwife from College Hill, wanted to pray for Tellez and the thousands like him - victims, she said, of U.S. trade policy that has left Mexicans and other Central Americans hungry with no job opportunities.

"They have no choice," Gish said. "We are a human family. I don't believe people can be illegal."

After an opening prayer by the Rev. Jorge Ochoa, a priest at San Carlos, Tellez family members spoke.

"We are people of God," Ochoa said. "Julio's family members are people of God. We are one family here tonight asking God to open the hearts and minds of our lawmakers and our judge."

Then his supporters received a slip of paper with the phone numbers of Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and John Morton, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).


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Here's my prayer. I pray that soon he, his mother and sibs will be reunited with daddy in their homeland.

"Julio stepped in and took care of us," said his sister, Natalia. "He has supported us in everything. He has done nothing wrong."

BULL! Your entire family is breaking the law, and not just one or two laws, but many of them!

He is the sole breadwinner in his family - his mother, who is disabled and undocumented, and a younger brother and sister who both are U.S. citizens. Their father was deported. Tellez has a drywall and construction company.

He may be the sole breadwinner, but I'd bet my last $ the US taxpayer is footing a lot of their bills! How about the IRS stepping in a taking a peek at their books? If an illegal OWNS his own company, care to bet who he employs?

My prayer includes the media attention to American workers out of work because of this construction company and the difficulty their families face.

I would like this illegal to produce his tax returns to prove how important this country is to him. These sob stories are always only about the illegals scamming the system and their incessant needs.

Lois Gish, 59, a retired midwife from College Hill, wanted to pray for Tellez and the thousands like him - victims, she said, of U.S. trade policy that has left Mexicans and other Central Americans hungry with no job opportunities.

AND...!?!?!? So this means that they should stay? Why, because millions of American citizens are going hungry with no job opportunities also - in large part due to foreigners, legal and illegal? So foreigners should be able to stay so they can vie for the jobs Americans themselves can't get?

It's time to start thinking of the citizens of this country first!

Noting wrong with praying,but God also said you must obey mans law also.He knows that when it gets out that he is praying that churches will come running to the rescue,and they will take up the fight for him.Thats whats bad.

Prayer, a call to action for undocumented immigrant

The call is go to jail your committing a crime.


Huh no it is illegal alien...There is no such thing as undocumented immigrants, that means they are illegal if your an immigrant you came here with in the laws of our Country not sneaking in here illegally....big difference and mucking up the words doesn't change a thing...


ILLEGAL IS ILLEGAL....