This situation has several serious legal issues layered on top of each other, and you have more options than it may feel like right now. Here is where to focus.
The recanting accuser is significant. If the person who accused your husband has admitted to lying, that is potentially powerful grounds for post-conviction relief. This needs to be in front of an attorney or an innocence organization as soon as possible. The Innocence Project and state-level innocence organizations take cases involving recanted testimony seriously. Contact them directly and submit your husband's case for review. Many work at no cost.
The lack of an interpreter may be a civil rights violation. Parole hearings require meaningful access to the process, which includes language access for non-English speakers. If your husband was not provided an interpreter and could not fully participate in or understand his own parole hearing, that is a procedural due process issue that can be the basis for an appeal of the hearing outcome. Document everything about what happened at that hearing now while the details are fresh.
Legal aid and pro bono resources. You do not need to afford an attorney outright. Contact your state's legal aid organization and explain the full situation including the recanting witness, the interpreter issue, and the immigration detainer. Immigration detainers combined with parole situations fall within the scope of several nonprofit legal organizations that handle these cases specifically. The National Immigration Project and CLINIC are two organizations that may be able to help or refer you to someone who can.
The parole hearing outcome can be appealed. In most states there is a formal process for appealing a parole board recommendation or decision. Your husband's case manager can tell him what the appeal process looks like at his facility, and a legal aid attorney can help file that appeal.
For your family right now. Your county's Department of Social Services can connect you with emergency assistance programs for families in crisis, including help with childcare, medical expenses, and basic needs while you are disabled and your husband is inside. You should not be postponing surgeries. Call 211, which is the national social services helpline, and tell them your situation. They will connect you with local resources.
A GoFundMe is also worth creating to help cover immediate expenses while you work through the legal issues. Your story is compelling and people respond to families in genuine need.
You are not out of options. You are just at the hardest part.
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