Bring Anou Home Rally 8.9.25

Janice Tosto reports from the Bring Anou Home Rally held on 8.9.25

Anou, owner of Germantown’s Das Good Cafe was detained by ICE and now faces deportation to Laos, which he left as a young child. He doesn’t speak the language, and his health is uncertain due to a faulty heart.

His deportation order stems from a decades-old plea deal tied to charges his family says were based on manipulated allegations and legal pressure.

What they didn’t know then — and what lawyers failed to tell them — is that pleading guilty would mean losing Anou’s green card and putting his future at risk.

Now, the family is turning to a potential legal lifeline: the Padilla motion, a challenge rooted in a 2010 Supreme Court decision that says non-citizens must be warned of immigration consequences before taking a plea.