The call they had been waiting for came just before the sun set on a blazing day.
Romulo Avelica-Gonzalez told his wife, Norma, that he was finally getting out of the immigration detention facility.
“Your dad is out!” she told her four daughters.
Six months ago, Avelica-Gonzalez, 49, an immigrant in the country illegally, was arrested while taking his daughters to school in Lincoln Heights. One of his daughters videotaped the encounter, which caused a furor.
Read the full story on LATimes.com.
#RomuloAvelica, an #undocumented man who was detained while dropping his daughters off at school, is released from #immigration jail on Wed. pic.twitter.com/Yx5VUjwl9X
— luis sinco (@luissinco) August 31, 2017