NEW YORK \u2014 A Bronx nurse whose high school student son was grabbed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents last year will be a guest of Sen. Chuck Schumer at President Donald 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, Dylan, who has been imprisoned since he was arrested after attending a routine immigration hearing.<\/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 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 lawmakers on both sides of the aisle will bring to focus attention on political issues 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 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 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 where he has been held ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 A Bronx nurse whose high school student son was grabbed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,2065,60477,46984,9198,9,24,63,896,60333,60476,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-144146","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-dylan-contreras","11":"tag-immigration-agents","12":"tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-president-donald-trump","17":"tag-raiza-contreras","18":"tag-state-of-the-union-address","19":"tag-the-bronx","20":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","21":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144146","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=144146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}