OUR FAMILIES: ROXROY AND ERICA



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Watch a video of RoxRoy's 11/25/08 press conference.

RoxRoy is a national of Jamaica who has lived in the United States for the past thirty years. He came to the U.S. with his father when he was a young man to seek a good education and to accomplish his goals. He has four beautiful children who were born in the U.S. He also has a daughter who was born in Jamaica. He adores all of his children. He lives with three of his children: Natasha, an 18-year-old who attends Long Island University for legal studies, Nyasha, a 15-year-old studying design at her high school, and Elijah, a 12-year-old in middle school. RoxRoy is an organizer at Families for Freedom and a member of the New Sanctuary Coalition. Because of minor drug convictions from over 20 years ago, he now faces removal proceedings. He believes that everyone deserves their human right to stay with their families.

I Live and Breathe For My Children. - RoxRoy
Can you imagine forces trying to separate you from your family? One has to live it and experience it to understand. It's an outrage and an unexplainable feeling. I'm living that experience right now.

We the families are reaching a place of desperation, not knowing what tomorrow will bring. For years, our communities and families have been destroyed by an immigration system that does not respect a person's basic humanity. The families scarred by this brutal system live all around us.

I live and breathe for my children. It is my greatest honor. I teach my children decency and moral values because I was brought up that way. I teach them to be good human beings: to love God, themselves and their neighbors. I just can't bear the thought of being away from my family - most of all my children and grandchildren, my brothers and sisters and my mother.

My family and I are grateful for the New Sanctuary Movement and Families for Freedom and the daily challenges they are undertaking with our families on this journey. The churches have to rise up and be an influence on the Earth - not working out of fear, but the positiveness of faith. Then we will triumph, triumphantly!