Venezuelan immigrant organ donor José Gregorio González reunites with sick brother after ICE temporary release

González, who is from Venezuela, hopes to participate in an organ donation program that may help secure a kidney for his brother, who has end-stage renal disease.

A Venezuelan man who came to the United States to help his brother, who has end-stage renal disease, was reunited with his sibling after his temporary release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday.

José Gregorio González’s story made headlines this week after community members rallied to show support for the brothers. González had been detained by ICE since March 3, when he was arrested after he had accompanied his brother, José Alfredo Pacheco, to a dialysis appointment.

“They asked his name, he told them and the officer told him, ‘We are the ICE team. We have a deportation order from the judge. Don’t run because it will be worse,’” Pacheco told Telemundo Chicago in Spanish in a recent interview.

Pacheco, 37, said his world just fell. “I’m here alone,” he said.

González, 43, traveled to the U.S. from Venezuela last year to help in his younger brother’s medical care.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/venezuelan-organ-donor-released-ice-brother-kidney-rcna199745

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