Gridder fury at ma detain

Rant at immig. officials

Houston Texans linebacker Neville Hewitt blasted immigration officials after his mom was detained by US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement when she returned to the US for a deportation hearing.

Hewitt’s mom, Deon Jones, 47, spent nine years in a Georgia state prison after a car in which she was a passenger was found with 40 grams of cocaine and some marijuana in its trunk, prompting her to be deported to Jamaica in 2017, The Daily Beast reported.

As Hewitt, 30, prepared for the Texans’ AFC Divisional playoff game against the Baltimore Ravens, his mother was flying from Jamaica to Atlanta to prepare for an immigration hearing — one her lawyer, Benjamin Osorio, thought would allow Jones to be released with an ankle monitor.

However, when Jones’ plane landed she was detained by an ICE officer, who took her phone away just as she messaged her son alerting him to the issue.

“This is what’s going on here in our country. And a lot of us, we are just not aware that this is actually taking place,” Hewitt said. “It’s been going on for years.”

His mother, who has never seen him play pro ball, would “love to be going crazy in the stands,” he said.

“I don’t care where you from or who you are, it’ll drive you crazy to know that you’re locked up and you don’t have an idea of why, and what’s going on with you,” Hewitt said. “You have no explanation. It’s mind-blowing.”

Hewitt was just 14 and only starting on his football journey when his mother was deported to Jamaica, where she lived until she was 12.

The football player said he knew something was wrong when he did not see her after a high school football game, describing the realization he had as “heartbreaking.”

ICE and the US State Department did not respond to a request for comment.