The first Filipino deported under U.S. Pres. Trump’s leadership, Rey Galleon, reveals his side.
Rey Galleon, the first Filipino deported under the Trump Administration, shared how he was arrested by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Based on a recent report in ABS-CBN News, Galleon has lived in the United States as an undocumented immigrant for seven years. He is the first known undocumented Pinoy in Southern California who was deported under the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
When Galleon came home from the school of his 9-year-old kid as he dropped his child off, there were people in their apartment and they are asking about him and his wife according to the report.
Without the knowledge that they were the arresting team that looks for him, he spoke to them.
Based on the report, he was permitted by the arresting officers to go inside his residence to change his clothes. He told his wife about it and she and one of their kids were able to sneak out through the backdoor.
The ICE brought him to the Homeland Security Office in Long Beach from his residence. According to Galleon, he was given choices either he would go home or he would be detained.
According to the report, Galleon, the former crew man, was then brought to Los Angeles International Airport. He was the one who paid for his ticket back home to the Philippines.
By 10:00 o’clock in the evening, Galleon was already in a plane bound for the Philippines.
According to Pilipino Workers Center’s Aqui Soriano Versoza, there was a “bond process” and he could have been backed by the PWC if he was able to reached out to them.
“ICE, if you interact with them, are trying to get you to sign your own voluntary departure. He was asking for legal assistance and they were ignoring that and in the end they gave him false options,” Versoza said based on the report.
About a week after he was deported, the family of the former crew man, his wife and his two US-citizen kids, flew to the Philippines and followed him to Zamboanga.
