Help us keep Maynor’s family together in USA

Please help support Maynor’s legal defense against immigration detention and deportation.

Maynor is appealing to the Board of Immigration. The consequences could be deportation. He needs the best possible representation in his defense!

In November of 2020, Maynor was arrested by ICE without cause while filling his tank at a gas station on his way to work. It has devastated his family. Maynor had been living in the United States for 19 years, all the while paying taxes and committing no crime, not even a traffic violation. He was detained for 5 months in a detention facility while his family endured the loss of their breadwinner, husband and father. During this time, they have spent their entire life savings trying to navigate a confusing and unreasonable immigration system. After an arduous and emotional battle, lead mostly by his incredibly strong and tenacious wife, and several supportive friends, Maynor was released from the detention center in January 2021. They are now faced with appealing to the Board of Immigration seeking asylum. This is an expensive undertaking, one which requires the best possible representation for his defense. An unfavorable appeal would mean his deportation and separation from his family.

Who is Maynor?

Maynor is a 44 year-old indigenous Guatemalan. In Guatemala, Indians like him, are amongst the poorest people in one of the poorest countries on the planet. With no opportunity for education, he began working at a young age to help feed his family. As an indigenous Indian, he was bullied, harassed and beaten his entire youth and continually throughout his teenage years. In Guatemala, those like Maynor, the indigenous Indians, are considered worthless, abject servants.

Today, Maynor is a hardworking family man. He and his wife have raised 3 exemplary boys. The youngest, Derek is 9 yrs old and a United States citizen. Their two older boys, Josue and Oseas graduated from Newbury Park High School and have become legal residents of the United States. They are wonderful young men that will contribute to our society in meaningful ways.

Maynor works at the local country club from 6am to 2pm, 6 days a week. He then begins his second job, which consists of maintaining gardens in many homes in the Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley and Moorpark. He works until the sun goes down every day.

He has paid federal and state tax since he received his very first pay check all those years ago. He has learned English and is a proud, productive member of his church and of our community. He is grateful, honest, and hopeful.

Maynor’s family will never give up fighting for his children’s right to grow up with their father.

We humbly ask for your support, no matter how small, in our fight to keep Maynor here, in the United States, his home.