{"id":143801,"date":"2026-02-24T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/143801\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:00:31","slug":"schumer-hosting-bronx-nurse-whose-son-was-grabbed-by-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/143801\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer hosting Bronx nurse whose son was grabbed by ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Bronx nurse whose high school student son was grabbed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents<\/a> last year will be a guest of Sen. Chuck Schumer at President Trump\u2019s State of the Union address.<\/p>\n

Raiza Contreras, 41, hopes her presence will spotlight what she calls the unjust treatment of her 21-year-old son<\/a>, Dylan, who has been imprisoned since he was arrested after attending a routine immigration hearing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo mother should have to go through what Raiza is experiencing right now \u2014 being unjustly separated from her son,\u201d Schumer (D-New York) said in a statement. \u201cDylan followed the rules. He entered through a legal process, obtained permission to work to support his family, enrolled in school, and showed up to court as required.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead, ICE ripped their family apart,\u201d the Senate minority leader added.<\/p>\n

Raiza Contreras, a legal immigrant from Venezuela, called her appearance at the nationally televised presidential speech<\/a> a chance to \u201cbring attention to the case and many other injustices happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just me,\u201d she told USA Today, speaking in Spanish.<\/p>\n

The mother of three is just one of many guests<\/a> lawmakers on both sides of the aisle will bring to focus attention on political issues<\/a> or causes they feel strongly about.<\/p>\n

Several lawmakers are bringing victims of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s infamous sex-trafficking scheme to remind Americans of the lack of accountability for his crimes.<\/p>\n

Some Republicans are bringing immigration agents to show off their support for the controversial mass deportation campaign<\/a> that ensnared Dylan Contreras.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Trump hosted several relatives of people who died in either crimes or car accidents blamed on undocumented immigrants<\/a>, a group he has dubbed \u201cAngel Families.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schumer says Dylan Contreras\u2019 story should serve as a cautionary tale for the dangers of Trump\u2019s crackdown.<\/p>\n

Dylan Contreras entered the U.S. in 2024 legally under a humanitarian parole program while he applied for asylum, and reunited with his mother and two younger siblings.<\/p>\n

He enrolled in a Bronx school for older students and started learning English while working as a delivery worker.<\/p>\n

On May 21, Dylan Contreras attended what he thought would be a routine immigration hearing in Manhattan for his asylum claim. Instead he was busted by ICE and taken to a Pennsylvania detention center<\/a> where he has been held ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx nurse whose high school student son was grabbed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents last year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,2065,153,2035,2301,9198,35617,9,24,63,60333,60332,129,131,130,7318],"class_list":{"0":"post-143801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-chuck-schumer","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-ice","12":"tag-immigration","13":"tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","14":"tag-mass-deportation","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-raiza-contreras","19":"tag-state-of-the-union","20":"tag-the-bronx","21":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","22":"tag-the-bronx-news","23":"tag-venezuela"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}