NEED TO KNOWA father of three's loved ones are fighting for his return home after over 100 days in ICE custodyCurtis James Wright was born in Canada but has been a legal United States permanent resident since moving to the U.S. as a minor, and he had his green card renewed twice“His baby girl asks for her daddy every day,” a loved one wrote of Curtis's 18-month-old daughterThe family of a Canadian-born dad, who is a legal United States permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since childhood, is fighting for his safe return home.Curtis James Wright’s loved ones said authorities detained him on Nov. 6 as he went through customs at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, according to local outlet KPRC and information shared in a GoFundMe fundraiser.The father of three, who was returning from a business trip to Mexico, has been in the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ever since, his family said.After the 39-year-old dad landed at the airport, his fiancée, Kayla Thomsen, told KPRC, authorities "pulled him aside for a second screening," and a couple of hours later, they were told Wright was being detained and sent to an ICE detention center"We were baffled. Like, this can’t happen," Thomsen said.Curtis’ family told KPRC that immigration officials said he is being held over a misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance charge from when he was 17.“Despite being a lawful permanent resident with decades-old misdemeanor charges that were fully adjudicated, immigration officials detained him to challenge his green card status in court,” the GoFundMe fundraiser, which was created by Thomsen’s mother Danelle Jensen, states.“That charge was adjudicated when he was a young teenager, 22 years ago,” Curtis’ father, Jim Wright, told KPRC. “Now, if it has to be satisfied again in the immigration courts versus the criminal courts, I accept that. But you don’t incarcerate him and put him behind bars for four months while you’re waiting on that.”Jim also told the Houston outlet that the family, including Curtis, entered the U.S. in 1998 on visas and became legal permanent residents shortly after in 2001. “He’s a permanent resident of the U.S.,” Jim said of his son. “They’ve renewed his green card twice.”Curtis Wright.<br>Credit: GoFundMe"And you also wonder why they’re challenging his immigration status now, when they’ve renewed it twice and didn’t challenge it at any time in the last 22 years," Jim added to the outlet.An ICE spokesperson did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on Saturday, Feb. 28.Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up for PEOPLE's free True Crime newsletter for breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases.According to the GoFundMe, Curtis is a “devoted father” to two young sons from a previous marriage, and he shares an 18-month-old daughter with fiancée Thomsen.As of Feb. 28, Curtis is being held in ICE custody at South Texas Detention Facility in Pearsall, according to records viewed by PEOPLE.His toddler daughter “wakes up every morning saying ‘da-da,’ because it would be him going to get her,” Thomsen told KPRC, adding, “We’re all devastated.”“His baby girl asks for her daddy every day,” the GoFundMe also states. “She carries a small plastic photo frame with his picture inside so she can see his face. She does not understand why he isn’t home.”Curtis Wright<br>Credit: GofundmeLast month, attorneys for Wright filed a writ of habeas corpus, arguing that his continued detention violates his constitutional rights, according to KPRC. They also argued in the court order that the father of three was not given due process and that he is not a flight risk.The man's family created the GoFundMe to help fundraise legal expenses, in part. They wrote of Curtis, "He can fight with everything he has, and still be deported.”“If Curtis is deported to Canada, our daughter and baby granddaughter will face costly relocation,” Thomsen’s mom said in the fundraiser description. “He would risk losing custody of his sons. The ripple effects on our family are devastating.”While in ICE custody, Thomsen told KPRC her husband-to-be is staying positive, even earning the nickname “professor” by teaching English to fellow detainees: “He said, ‘I can’t live like this in here, who can I help?’ ”Jensen offered more insight into Wright’s experience in custody in the GoFundMe, writing that “even in the middle of this nightmare, Curtis has not lost who he is.”“He shares what little he has with other detainees, food, water, basic necessities,” Jensen continued. “Family and friends send funds and books not only for him, but for the men around him who have no one. Many cannot afford drinking water or extra food. Many have no outside support at all.”She added, “Curtis tells us he is not surrounded by ‘the worst of the worst.’ He is surrounded by fathers, workers, and good men, people separated from their families and pressured toward self-deportation out of exhaustion and fear.”"We understand getting the bad out,” Thomsen also told KPRC. “But Curtis is not bad. He’s not a bad man.”Read the original article on People