If you are able, please support this GoFundMe campaign to help Jose and Josue Trejo Lopez, young brothers who were deported to El Salvador in May and today have no source of income to support themselves.

Jose and Josue, who are from Central Islip, are well known to Long Islanders opposing the Trump Administration’s cruel mass deportation of immigrants. The brothers were brought to the United States a decade ago at ages 10 and 11 by their mother who was fleeing gang violence in El Salvador. Their date of arrival did not qualify them for DACA protection.  

This past March, during their regular immigration check-in at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City, the brothers were arrested by ICE in front of their mother, detained for two months and then deported to El Salvador. In this video produced by the Sisters of St. Joseph, Jose describes their harrowing deportation.

Neither brother has a criminal record. Jose says the only thing he did wrong was to obey the law by faithfully attending his immigration check-ins, where he and Josue were arrested in March. Both recently graduated from high school, with their lives ahead of them like so many other young Americans.  

Today Jose and Josue are isolated in a small Salvadoran town about two hours outside the capital of San Salvador. They have no relatives in El Salvador. They have not been able to find work. Their attorneys are still trying to return them to the United States, but it is an uphill battle.

While their legal status leaves them in limbo, the brothers need our help to pay rent and purchase food. El Salvador is a poor country; job opportunities are scarce. Please do what you can to help Jose and Josue by contributing to their GoFundMe campaign.

In Solidarity,

Long Island Jobs with Justice