federal I-797<\/a> form that appears to show he had a legal work visa through 2029.<\/p>\n ![\"I-797](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761917468_747_\")
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Madeline Ramos-Delgado points to a federal form that appears to show he husband received a work visa in Cape Coral, Fla. on Oct. 30, 2025. FOX 4 blurred out the address to protect her privacy. <\/p>\n
“We had our dream of having our wedding by the beach,” Ramos-Delgado said. “We couldn’t finalize the marriage until he was detained.”<\/p>\n
“It hurts me, I’m like – why?” she said.<\/p>\n
Ledgar worked as a pool cleaner for Hector Leon in Cape Coral, who described him as family. <\/p>\n
Leon said he’s still trying to fill Delgado’s position. But nobody can fill his shoes. Leon started to choke up when he talked about the young man from Venezuela. <\/p>\n
“I never had to call him for anything,” Leon said. “Customers call me, gave me good complements about him, tipping them, I mean, all good, it was perfect…it’s hard to find good help.”<\/p>\n
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Hector Leon stands next to his work truck in Cape Coral, Fla. on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. Leon employed Delgado as a pool cleaner. <\/p>\n
On Aug. 28, Ramos-Delgado said her husband had a routine immigration check-in Miramar. That’s when ICE detained Ledgar. Ramos-Delgado said her husband has an asylum hearing scheduled for 2027 and shouldn’t have been detained.<\/p>\n
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told reporters in Bradenton last Monday that DHS is prioritizing deportations of dangerous criminals. <\/p>\n
“We’ve gotten murderers off the street, rapists, murderers, people who have committed crimes against children,” Noem said.<\/p>\n
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks to reporters during a news conference in Bradenton, Fla. on Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. Noem said ICE is deporting the ‘worst of the worst.’<\/p>\n
Court records searches in Lee, Broward and Miami-Dade counties found no criminal history for Delgado. Fox 4 asked ICE why it detained him, but we did not hear back. <\/p>\n
ICE’s detainee locator shows Delgado is currently being held in El Paso. Fox 4 spoke with Delgado over the phone on Thursday night. He told us conditions at the facility are bad, with limited access to medical care. <\/p>\n
“I want [to] see my family,” Delgado said. “My wife, my grandma.” <\/p>\n
Without her husband’s income, Ramos-Delgado said she’s struggling financially.<\/p>\n
“I haven’t been able to make complete car payments at all,” she said.<\/p>\n
She launched a GoFundMe<\/a> campaign for help. More than anything, Ramos-Delgado said she wants her husband back. <\/p>\n“Continue living our life,” Ramos-Delgado said. <\/p>\n
This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 Madeline Ramos-Delgado planned to get married at the beach. Instead, her wedding dress still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,263,211,210,20783,264,1136,1877,1841,3209,266,115],"class_list":["post-27973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-florida","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-detainee","tag-fox-4","tag-gofundme","tag-ice","tag-immigration","tag-kristi-noem","tag-local-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}