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Help Our Family Honor Samuel & Keep Our Mom Home
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My name is David, and I am Samuel’s older brother. I am updating this GoFundMe because our family continues to grieve the loss of my little brother while also fighting to keep our mom, Minerva, here with us.
Samuel was only 21 years old. He was a loving son, brother, uncle, and friend. He was funny, smart, grateful for the smallest things, and always knew how to make us smile. Losing him has been one of the most painful experiences our family has ever gone through.
When Samuel passed away, our mom was being held at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center. She had been detained by ICE after being racially profiled and stopped while walking in San Bernardino. She spent about two months in immigration detention, separated from our family.
Samuel and our mom were extremely close, and her absence affected him deeply. Losing him while she was still detained made an already devastating situation even harder for our family. We were grieving Samuel while also fighting to bring our mom home.
Thankfully, our mom has since been released and is back home with us. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who prayed, donated, shared our story, and supported our family throughout that fight.
But our journey is not over.
We are still carrying debt from Samuel’s funeral and burial expenses, and we now have immigration legal expenses as our mom fights to remain in the United States. After everything our family has been through, we are also trying to get back on our feet and begin healing together.
We are asking for support to help cover:
• Samuel’s remaining funeral and burial expenses
• Our mom’s immigration legal expenses
• Basic family needs as we work toward stability again
Any donation, no matter the amount, would mean so much to our family. If you are unable to donate, sharing this GoFundMe and Samuel’s story can help more than you know.
Thank you to everyone who has stood beside us through these incredibly difficult months. We will continue to honor Samuel, keep his memory alive, and share his story.
We love and miss you every day, Samuel. You will always be a part of our family and our story.
— David and the Gonzalez Family
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