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'Terrified': Central NJ Dad Ripped Away From Family By ICE In Traffic Stop Faces Deportation
A Middlesex County family is desperate to keep their father in the U.S. after he was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in a traffic stop.
Melvin Herrera of North Brunswick, who is an undocumented immigrant, was arrested last November for an expired registration of a vehicle that wasn't even his, ABC7 reports.
Herrera was driving a van in Plainfield for his job as a construction worker, and instead of being ticketed, he was arrested and handed over to ICE.
The breadwinner and father of three -- whose younger kids, William, 12, and Valerie, 4, have autism -- i…
New Swing Set Aims To Bring Joy To Hawthorne Boy, Classmates With Severe Autism
To some, it’s simply a new swing set. But to a 14-year-old Hawthorne boy with severe autism, it means so much more.
Spencer Schiavo "doesn't care about toys or material things that most kids enjoy," his stepmother, Julie Skolnik-Schiavo, said. "But he loves movement and does love to go on swings."
Unfortunately, the year-round school he attends has been without swings for months, due to age and damage, she said.
So she and her husband, Al Schiavo, took to Facebook seeking donations for the Allegro School for Autism in Cedar Knolls.
“We asked for $1,000,” Skolnik-Schiavo said. “In only a …