His name is Elvis Garcia, an 18-year-old senior at Key West High School.
Teachers admire him. He's on the wrestling team. In May, he graduated from the city's Firefighters Academy, a two-year program that trains future first responders.
Elvis also works as a server at restaurants nearly full-time in addition to school and sports.
He's been working so much for a reason: to pay for immigration attorneys, as he and his mother work their way through the court system, according to a local resident who's known him for two years.
For weeks now, Border Patrol has set up staging areas for patrols. Agents run license plates and pull over anyone who has a current immigration case pending, according to locals with knowledge of specific stops.
On Tuesday, at least 10 people have been stopped and taken into federal custody, according to the all-volunteer Key West Immigrant Support Network [KWISN], a group of locals working daily to help families caught in the immigration crackdown and also tracking ICE patrols.
Elvis is just a kid who was driving to school and for no reason they took him, cuffs on and everything, as if he was a criminal.
We wanna help Elvis and his mom Ana pay for all the attorneys to get him out of jail.
Organizer and beneficiary
Ana Henriquez
Beneficiary



