Leslie Perlera Gonzalez, an attorney with Greater Boston Legal Services, said Wednesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) officers smashed her husband's truck window while trying to arrest him.
Maggie Morgan, managing attorney of the immigration unit at Greater Boston Legal Services, told Newsweek in a Friday email that Perlera Gonzalez has "sponsored him through an I-130 relative petition so that he can regularize his status."
According to ICE's detainee locator, Edgar Hernan Elias Escobar, of El Salvador , is being held at Plymouth County Correctional Facility.
Newsweek has reached out to ICE for comment via email on Friday. Newsweek also filled out a contact form on a GoFundMe set up on his behalf.
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Elias Escobar's detention comes amid an im