My name is Ali Baltazar. I am a United States citizen, a wife, and a mother of six American daughters. I am pleading with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to show compassion and humanity by granting my husband, Luis Ángel Baltazar Martinez, immediate release from ICE custody.

On September 2, 2026, our family’s world changed when Luis was taken into ICE custody. Since that day, our six daughters have been forced to live without their father, and I have been left trying to hold our family together.

Luis was brought to the United States when he was just two years old. America is the only home he has ever known. He grew up here, built his career here, and created a family here. His entire life, his wife, his children, and his community are in the United States.

My husband has an approved I-130 marriage petition, has held valid employment authorization, and has been navigating the immigration system through the legal process.

Our six daughters, ages 12, 9, 8, 5, 4, and 1, are suffering tremendously from this separation. They cry for their father, experience nightmares, and struggle to understand why he cannot come home. Some have needed therapy to cope with his absence.

To the ICE officers, supervisors, and federal officials with the authority to review my husband’s detention: I am begging you to see the family behind this case.

I am not asking for immigration laws to be ignored. I am asking for compassion, fairness, and the opportunity for my husband to continue his immigration proceedings from home while complying with every lawful requirement.

Luis has a stable residence, strong community ties, and a wife who will personally ensure he attends every required hearing and appointment.

This petition is not simply the plea of one wife. It represents the collective voices of every individual who signs it.

Each signature is a person standing beside Luis, advocating for his release, recognizing the hardship his continued detention places on our family, and respectfully asking ICE to reconsider his circumstances.

The people signing this petition are joining me in a unified request for Luis to be released from detention and reunited with his wife and six daughters while his immigration case continues.

We are asking that these signatures be recognized as a meaningful expression of public support and a sincere appeal for humanitarian consideration.

To ICE: Please hear not only my voice, but the voices of every person who has signed this petition in support of my husband’s release.

Every day that passes is another day six children go without their father. These are moments that can never be returned to them.

I respectfully request an urgent review of Luis’s detention and the exercise of any available lawful authority to grant his immediate release, subject to appropriate conditions if necessary.

Please allow Luis to return home to his family while he continues fighting his immigration case.

With hope, love, and determination,

Ali Baltazar
Wife of Luis Ángel Baltazar Martinez
Mother of six United States citizen daughters

Together, we are asking for one thing: Bring Luis home.