ANN ARBOR, MI - As community members rallied against the pending deportation of an Ann Arbor mother of three this week, another local resident spoke out about her own family's situation.

Holding her 2-year-old son, Ypsilanti resident Karina Valle fought back tears as she talked about her husband's May 24 arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the possibility he could be deported to El Salvador in the near future.

"My world just came shattering down because the life I know is with him. I have a son," she said, speaking through a megaphone before a crowd of hundreds outside the federal building in Ann Arbor and calling on the community to help stop her husband's deportation.

Jose Valle-Rodriguez, 31, is still being detained by ICE at the Calhoun County Jail in Battle Creek.

The family is waiting for a judge to decide whether he can be released on bond and go home to his wife and son while his case is pending.

Valle said they had a July 12 court date that was canceled, and now there will be a hearing in Detroit immigration court on July 27.

Supporters are planning to arrive before 8:30 a.m. and rally outside the McNamara Federal Building in Detroit ahead of the bond hearing.

"He does not have a criminal record, he is a good man, a lot of people love him here in the community, and all I'm asking for is for him to come back home so we can fix his status," Valle said.

"He wants to be with his family."

Valle-Rodriguez came to the United States from El Salvador without a visa in 2003 at the age of 17.

Valle, 28, has been in the U.S. since she was 11. She came as a refugee and was granted asylum.

She and Valle-Rodriguez met in 2006 and have been married since 2012.

Before her husband was picked up by ICE two months ago, Valle said, their life was perfect, but they wanted to fix his legal status, so they went to lawyers to see what could be done.

She said they were surprised to find out there was a previous deportation order. It turns out he failed to show for an immigration court hearing in 2005 and a judge ordered his removal, but the family claims he never received a notice to appear.

After being picked up by ICE on May 24, Valle-Rodriguez's attorney, Brad Thomson, filed a motion in court to try to halt the deportation, claiming his client never received notice of the 2005 hearing because the government used the wrong zip code.

"They were not sending it to the correct zip code. That's why we never got anything for a court date," Valle said at this week's rally.

On June 27, Detroit Immigration Court Judge Jennifer Gorland agreed to reopen Valle-Rodriguez's case.

Valle-Rodriguez is now seeking asylum so he can stay in the U.S. with his wife and son, and ICE has challenged it. A spokesman for ICE couldn't immediately be reached for comment on Friday, July 21.

As she spoke at this week's rally in Ann Arbor, Valle expressed frustration that her husband has been in jail for two months, blaming the situation on a "clerical error," the incorrect zip code.

If he's forced to return to his home country, she fears her husband will become a victim of gang violence.

"He's getting threatened back in El Salvador, that they know that he might get deported," Valle said, tearing up. "His dad was already told that his son should be careful, he could get killed."

The family claims Valle-Rodriguez's father-in-law was a member of the MS-13 gang and was murdered, and the family believes that connection and his immediate family's vocal opposition to gang violence puts his life in danger.

"I know we have to show the judge that he has strong ties to the community, which he does," Valle said, arguing her husband deserves to stay in the U.S. with his family. "My son deserves to have his dad back. And if anyone could help me out and come to the court on the 27th, I would be forever thankful, because I need my husband. I need my family back. I need my household back.

"I don't have a home anymore, because he's not there. I don't see my son, because he has to be taken care of while I work."

An activist group called Stop Trump Ann Arbor has created a Facebook page for next week's planned demonstration to free Valle-Rodriguez, including links to an online petition and donation page.

Valle said her aunt already was deported in the last month and her cousin is about to be deported, too. She expressed sympathy for the family of Lourdes Salazar Batista, an Ann Arbor mother of three who is facing deportation in the next two weeks.

"Let's help her out. Let's help each other out, because this can't keep happening," Valle told the crowd Tuesday night, July 18. "It can't."

Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor also addressed the crowd outside the federal building.

"If this is our reality, then American leadership will not long endure," Taylor said, speaking against deporting parents without criminal records and taking them away from their children.

"In the end, we will be a nation that leads because we believe in strength and pluralism and generosity. We believe in optimism and compassion," Taylor told the crowd. "There is much to do, and there are times of course when I doubt, but in your presence here today I have confidence that we will achieve victory."