Ricardo has a mental illness-help us release him!
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Ricardo should NOT be living in a U.S. detention facility. He should be with family, where he can continue to fight for his freedom and receive the care he so desperately needs.
Despite a diagnosis of mental illness since childhood and a traumatic brain injury suffered from a bike accident, Ricardo Martinez has spent the last two years living at the Adelanto Detention Facility in CA.
Ricardo came to the U.S. from Mexico as a young teenager because his family could not access the medication and care that he needed. In the U.S., Ricardo has had access to a psychiatrist and medication for his mental illness. But since being detained in August 2016 Ricardo's illness has worsened. He is terrified of being deported back to a county where the mentally ill are habitually locked up in institutions and endure abysmal and dehumanizing conditions.
At a court hearing in 2016, Ricardo told the immigration judge that if he is deported "I know that I am not going to receive the medication that I’m receiving here in the United States. No one cares over there if you have a mental problem, the government or the people ... If you have a mental problem, all you receive is mistreatment, abuse.”
Ricardo recently had a bond hearing, where his bond was set for $5,000 - but his family has no way to pay for it.
PLEASE CONSIDER A DONATION TO RELEASE RICARDO FROM ADELANTO IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS!
PLEASE SHARE THIS PETITION within your community and on social media!
Together, we can bring Ricardo home.
Despite a diagnosis of mental illness since childhood and a traumatic brain injury suffered from a bike accident, Ricardo Martinez has spent the last two years living at the Adelanto Detention Facility in CA.
Ricardo came to the U.S. from Mexico as a young teenager because his family could not access the medication and care that he needed. In the U.S., Ricardo has had access to a psychiatrist and medication for his mental illness. But since being detained in August 2016 Ricardo's illness has worsened. He is terrified of being deported back to a county where the mentally ill are habitually locked up in institutions and endure abysmal and dehumanizing conditions.
At a court hearing in 2016, Ricardo told the immigration judge that if he is deported "I know that I am not going to receive the medication that I’m receiving here in the United States. No one cares over there if you have a mental problem, the government or the people ... If you have a mental problem, all you receive is mistreatment, abuse.”
Ricardo recently had a bond hearing, where his bond was set for $5,000 - but his family has no way to pay for it.
PLEASE CONSIDER A DONATION TO RELEASE RICARDO FROM ADELANTO IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS!
PLEASE SHARE THIS PETITION within your community and on social media!
Together, we can bring Ricardo home.
Organizer and beneficiary
Cindy Knoebel
Organizer
Sausalito, CA
Rebecca Merton
Beneficiary
