Gerson Turcios was 17 when he fled violence in Honduras to build a new life in the US. Six years later, he was mowing lawns in his home town of Rhinebeck when immigration officers took him. Within hours, friends, neighbours and local celebrities sprang into action. Could they stop his deportation?<\/p>\n
Gerson Turcios didn\u2019t recognise the men\u00a0standing next to a couple of dark SUVs outside his house one July afternoon last year. He figured they were lost and approached to see if he could help. A slim 23-year-old with short dark hair and big brown eyes, Turcios had just finished work mowing lawns in the pretty town of Rhinebeck, in New York\u2019s Hudson Valley. The men asked if he knew someone called Jimmy \u2013 he did, but Jimmy hadn\u2019t lived in the small, white weatherboard house with Turcios, his brother and his brother\u2019s girlfriend for a while.<\/p>\n
The men noted Turcios\u2019s accent and asked where he was from. Turcios didn\u2019t answer, so one took out his phone and snapped a photograph. The next thing Turcios knew, he was in handcuffs in the back of one of the SUVs and on his way to an ICE processing centre in Newburgh, New York, then on to a detention centre.<\/p>\n
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