The family of a Manhattan man who holds a green card and provides primary care for his beloved son with special needs is begging for help after ICE took him into custody.

According to his loved ones, 43-year-old Heury Gomez of the Dominican Republic had been training to become the permanent caregiver for his 18-year-old son Noah, who lives with special needs, when federal agents arrested him on Aug. 5 of this year. The arrest came months after a judge awarded him sole custody of the teen.

Noah is non-verbal and lives with multiple medical challenges, including being dependent on a tracheostomy and a feeding tube. Zapata said that between work hours, Gomez would visit his son at a children’s hospital and was learning to administer round-the-clock care when the training abruptly halted due

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