Ice relaxes the father of the state of Washington; The pregnant woman pleads: “I just want him to be at home”

ICE Detained a pregnant father in the state of Washington only a few months before his wife could give birth.

Friday morning, Guilherme Lemes Cardoso e Silva was about to recover her daughter on Friday port on the island of San Juan, about 100 miles north of Seattle, when Multiple unmarked ice vehicles container Masked agents arrested him on a private road near his home, according to his wife, Rachel Leidig.

Silva, from Brazil, is a 35 -year -old visual artist currently based in Washington. The photos published on his Instagram account show part of his colorful work that can be seen across the country.

Silva and Leidig met in 2023 during a flamboyant lip concert in San Francisco. The couple got married in April and was waiting for a little boy in October. Silva – or Gui, as Leidig calls it – was to move to Sausalito, California, at the end of the month to be with Leidig.

“It is only one of those people that it is, when you meet it, he is so loving, warm and kind,” said Leidig. “Anyone who knows Gui really knows he knows he is an incredible person.”

Silva does not have a criminal record or pending mandates, said Leidig. Silva and Leidig worked with an immigration lawyer and submitting a request to legalize his residence status in the United States when Silva was held. After his detention, Leidig submitted a form I-130, or a “petition for an extraterrestrial parent”. He was also renewing his work permit, said Leidig.

According to Leidig, Silva told him that the ice agents who had detained him were hard with him and refused to show him a mandate. An agent confiscated his phone when he started recording the incident and others made jokes during his arrest, she said.

“They were behind him laughing and making jokes, saying they were happy that they did not do the new time this time,” said Leidig.

Silva told Leidig that he was held in a detention cell for 38 hours in Ferndale where “the conditions were terrible” and he received food that made him sick. He was also told to show his tattoos and asked if he had already been affiliated with a gang, which he said that he had never been.

Ice did not immediately respond to a request for comments.

A gofundme created by Leidig’s friend to help support Silva’s family and collect funds for legal costs amassed more than $ 56,000 on Tuesday afternoon.

Silva is held in a detention center in Tacoma, Washington, according to online archives. Leidig says he has a court hearing at the end of the month, and she hopes he will be released then.

“I just want him at home, I want him to go home,” said Leidig in tears. “We tried to do it legally and I want him to be here for the birth of our child, and I want him to be there for me and his son and for his daughter.”

Leidig says that when Silva comes out, he wants to use his experience and diploma in Brazil law to help others who are in his position.

“He wants to make it a more important goal of helping others,” said Leidig.