The Process Begins

After Arcadio was arrested at the Houston Airport in November of 2007 for illegally being in the United States, he was escorted to jail and waited for his asylum case to move forward.

As two months passed, Arcadio was informed that the final decision on his case would be held until April, meaning that he would spend the next six months in a make-shift prison.  He gladly accepted the situation with the hope that asylum would result in a better chance at constructing a “peace network” between Guatemala and the United States.

While it’s no surprise that an asylum case would take several months to process, Arcadio was not released during this period.  His spirits, however, remained high while he remained in jail.