ATLANTA (ABP) — A Hispanic North Carolina pastor is scheduled to have a bond hearing in Atlanta Sept. 2 in the first stage of deportation proceedings against him — the consequence of a 15-year-old crime he committed before accepting Christ.
Leaders of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina have been soliciting urgent prayer for Hector Villanueva, pastor of a Spanish-speaking church in Siler City, N.C. He was arrested Aug. 19 by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and taken to Gainesville, Ga., to be held.
Villanueva, 40, has lived in the United States since he was 3. He is a legal resident with a green card and Social Security card. He and his wife, Martha, a U.S. citizen, have four children and are in the process of adopting two foster children.
Martha Villanueva told an Associated Baptist Press reporter Sept. 1 that her husband has a North Carolina attorney who specializes in immigration, Jorgelina Araneda, advocating for him. She said she was en route to Atlanta for the hearing, hoping that her husband can get out on bond so they can contest his deportation.
“I just know that my husband has not done anything illegal anytime recently,” she said. “This is a very old case that they brought up and I know that he’s a different person than he was then; he’s changed and I just — I just don’t know what else to say. I just want him home; he’s needed here.”
Martha Villanueva told the Raleigh, N.C., News & Observer a lawyer alerted her husband several months ago that his green card might be in jeopardy because of a “commercial burglary” conviction in the mid-1990s.
He was homeless at the time and apparently tried to cash a check that wasn’t his. He became a practicing Christian while in jail and dedicated his life to the ministry. Martha Villanueva admitted that in his former life her husband did some things of which he is not proud.
After moving from California four years ago, Villanueva helped North Carolina CBF Hispanic Leader Coach Javier Benitez start Iglesia Bautista la Roca in Raleigh, one of a dozen congregations that form the state organization’s Hispanic Network. He recently started a new church in Siler City.
His conviction surfaced in a background check after he applied for U.S. citizenship. Under current immigration law, any non-citizen convicted of an “aggravated felony” faces deportation, whether or not they have served their sentence. http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/5663…
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The jails and prisons of full of people whom saw the light.Being a man of God he should also know that because he is does not erase his past and his crimes continue to remain. America did not decide to cash a check he had stolen and he endorsed it and wanted to cash it. This is fraud.This is a major crime. Fraud is illegal. Something illegals think is legal as far as they are concern. Does he understand obey the laws of the laws of the land ? Has he no faith everything will work out ? Why should him being hispanic have to do anything with the charge of “commercial burglary” . He can put his faith to use in Mexico or does faith cross the border ?
He should have turned himself in, instead of trying to evade the problem. Sounds like he didn’t have enough faith in God, doesn’t it? So long sucka!
nope.he should pack his bags and get out of dodge.jesus will still love him.
This man is not a threat to our society. In fact he’s an asset to many people, especially the two foster children that he’s about to adopt. Nobody would benefit from his deportation.
I think it’s time that we take each case on a case-by-case basis. There is no doubt that criminal immigrants should be deported. But this man no longer fits into that category.