The life of the steak restaurant worker was reversed because he was arrested significantly by ICE at the Nişancı Shopping Center
A steak restaurant employee, his fiancé suddenly worked by ICE, after being arrested in a shopping center, his heart was broken, he said.
23 -year -old Andres Paledes Morales was preparing to marry his colleague Amanda Souza, whom he met at Fogo De Chao Steakhouse at the Prussian Shopping Center in Pennsylvania.
However, while Souza was working at Taco Restaurant in the same shopping center, Morales was detained by four civil immigrants on July 31.
The images taken by one of Morales’ colleagues showed that they were accompanied by agents who said they wanted to question him outside after receiving a complaint that he was involved in a crime and returned to his kitchen.
According to Souza, the agents do not show any orders about the complaint or give him any details, and Morales said he called him to help him because he did not speak English.
He said he ran to the scene, but when an agent said Morales was already detained on the phone, he was five minutes away.
Souza said that after he moved to the US and Customs Protection Facility in the center of Pennsylvania, he stayed in the limo waiting for his fiancée and insisted that he did not belong there.
Morales, a Venezuela immigrant who moved to the US in 2024, received permission to stay in the country through human conditional evacuation and did not have a criminal record in the United States or Venezuela, Souza told Philadelphia Inquirer.
Although 23 -year -old Andres Paredes Morales did not have work permit and criminal record, he was preparing to marry his colleague Amanda Souza (together) before he was suddenly detained in a shopping center they worked on July 31.
The images taken by one of Morales’ colleagues showed that they were accompanied by agents who said they wanted to question him outside after receiving a complaint that he was involved in a crime and returned to his kitchen.
Morales, in May 2026, a long working visa planned for a migrant court hearing and said he had permission at the time of being detained.
“ Always works, ” he said. I live with him. No crime. ‘
He said that Morales moved to the USA to escape the widespread crime in Venezuela and suggested marriage months after he started working in the shopping center together.
“ He told me many times, ” We will be good in the future and I will help you, ‘Souza remembered.
He tried to earn extra money to send both restaurants to his mother, and the work permit would not expire until May 21, 2026.
Morales’s lawyer Alexis Price told Inquirer why he was detained by ICE and why he was not sure that he was not yet released, and he said he was not a criminal case waiting against him.
Price said that Montgomery County has recently become a bed for ice activity, and that agents asked them a question to ask them a question before an immigrant was detained from the workplace.
‘A little wild here,’ he said.
‘There is something new that we have not seen before.’
Souza said that his partner felt unjustly sweeping and ‘they associated you with a gang because you are only from Venezuela’.
Souza said that Morales moved to the United States to escape the widespread crime in Venezuela and suggested marriage months after meeting. ‘He told me many times,’ We will be good in the future and I will help you, ‘Souza remembered
Souza tears, his fiancée waiting for the settlement of the immigration case and said that he could only talk to him on the phone.
Souza said that his partner felt unjustly sweeping and ‘they associated you with a gang because you are only from Venezuela’.
Philadelphia’nın standing in the federal detention center, he was able to talk to Morales by phone and soon expected to be transferred to the Moshannon Valley Processing Center, he said.
According to 2024, the center, which is four hours away from their homes in Norrisown, reportedly dealt with problems such as medical access and lack of ill -treatment of personnel. report Temple University by Social Justice Lawyer Clinic.
Souza said that sudden arrest raised their lives and went to fight the complex migration system from planning their weddings.
One Waof Souza to pay his case, ‘not behind the bars, not at home, he deserves to be at home’ wrote.
“ He deserves justice and I need him back. We need each other, ” he wrote.
Souza’s nationality is uncertain.
