ICE finally melts
Sick dad held 11⁄2 yrs. back with happy fam
An ailing Bronx dad who’s spent the last year and a half in ICE custody was released Tuesday following mounting public pressure over his detainment.
Inocencio Roman Solano, 46, who suffers from advanced liver disease and type 2 diabetes, was released from the Bergen County Jail in New Jersey early in the morning, advocates told the Daily News.
The sick man’s surprise release came on the heels of an urgent parole request filed Thursday based on his rapidly deteriorating health and the detrimental effect his absence was having on his three children.
“The moment, it was very exciting — you can’t describe what it feels like,” the man’s son, Carlos Roman, 24, told The News.
Roman’s two U.S.-born daughters were overjoyed at the news of their dad’s release.
“It was a really emotional moment for them as well,” the girls’ brother said. “Especially the little one, she was jumping around and hugging and kissing him.”
In the parole request, Roman’s lawyers with Make the Road New York, a nonprofit, wrote of the “severe medical neglect” he endured behind bars. The dad of three waited weeks to see a doctor about coughing up blood and having black stools — and received “inappropriate treatment” for a diabetic foot ulcer that could ultimately have led to his foot being amputated, according to his lawyers.
The Bergen County Jail, where Roman had been detained since February 2018, has been plagued by controversy in recent months.
On Saturday, as the region experienced record-breaking heat, ICE detainees were moved to a separate facility after it was reported they were being held in cells without air conditioning.
The Bergen County sheriff’s office extended a mumps quarantine at the troubled lockup through the first week of July after five cases of the disease were confirmed, spokesman Derek Sands told The News earlier this month.