‘I’m not coming home’: Trump policy holds people in Ice custody without bail

Restaurant worker's case shows how Trump administration is inflicting the maximum punishment', experts say

Liset Fernandez spent most of the summer worried about her dad, Luis, but a few weeks ago she got some good news. After being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) custody for weeks, an immigration judge in Texas granted him release on a $5,000 bond.

Luis, came to the US from Ecuador in 1994, had been held in detention at a facility in Livingston, Texas, thousands of miles away from his home in Queens. Liset, 17, had taken on extra shifts working a retail job to support her mom and nine-year-old brother. Luis's co-workers at the Square diner, a railcar-style greasy spoon in Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood for over 100 years, had raised more than $20,000 to support him and his family.