“When is Daddy coming home?”

That’s what our kids ask me almost every day. And I don’t have an answer. My husband, Jose, was deported to a country he doesn’t even know — and now I’m here in Florida with our three kids, doing everything I can to bring him back.

We’ve been together since we were teenagers. We got married in 2016 and built a life here — a family, a small business, and a home full of love. Jose came to the U.S. when he was 7 years old and never left. He didn’t even know he had a deportation order from when he was a child, something tied to a court hearing his mom missed decades ago. None of us knew.

In May 2025, he got pulled over for a traffic issue. What should’ve been a normal ticket turned into an arrest — and then ICE took him. Even though he’s never been in trouble, has no criminal record, and has three U.S. citizen kids depending on him, he was quickly moved around and then sent back to Honduras, a place he hasn’t seen since he was a little boy.

He does have some family in Honduras, but it’s family he hasn’t seen in over 25 years. He doesn’t really know them, and he doesn’t know how to live there. Now he’s just bouncing around, trying to find work wherever he can, doing whatever jobs come his way just to survive. We’re doing what we can to support him from here, but it’s not easy — not for him, and not for us.

We hired a lawyer and filed everything we could: our marriage license, the kids’ birth certificates, letters from friends and family, proof of our life together. But before the courts even had time to look at it, he was gone.

Now, we’re raising money to keep fighting to bring him back. We need help covering legal fees, paperwork, and the long process of trying to reopen his case and ask for a second chance. We’re also just trying to stay afloat with him gone — emotionally, financially, and as a family.

If you can give anything at all, it would mean the world to us. Even just sharing this helps. We just want him home. Our kids miss their dad, and I miss my husband.

Thank you for reading, caring, and helping in any way you can.

-Galdamez Family