""My bed is empty. He's not in there. He's not cooking anymore for me,""
""My heart is broken.""
Jonathan Blanco Gallegos has not slept in the same bed as his husband Elias Perez‑Zuazo for more than a month. Perez‑Zuazo was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on December 10 during a routine annual check‑in at an ICE facility in Chantilly, Virginia. Perez‑Zuazo is from Panama and entered the United States at the Texas–Mexico border in November 2021. He was released to a sponsor in Washington, D.C., where he met and married Blanco Gallegos in February 2024. The couple filed for Perez‑Zuazo’s Green Card and Blanco Gallegos’s I‑130 petition was approved. The December detention halted the immigration process and left the couple separated. Immigrant advocates say arrests at routine appointments have turned mandatory check‑ins into traps.
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