Three years later, he was convicted for controlled substance possession and drug paraphernalia possession with intent to use in 2009, and later spent six months in detention while in ICE custody related to a different case that included no charges.Ī judge issued his deportation order in 2011 that was not immediately carried out and he was placed on an 'Order of Supervision' in 2014, requiring scheduled check-ins with ICE, according to according to the Miami Herald. Querales, who said he fled Venezuela to escape the late authoritarian President Hugo Chavez, arrived in the United States in 2003 and was granted asylum a year later. 31, 2018.īut Querales’ criminal record is also likely to factor into the case. Ricardo Querales has HIV and will be deported back to Venezuela, where he says he will die because there is no medication to treat his illness, on Jan.
