"The Voice of the New Due Process Army" ————– Musings on Events in U.S. Immigration Court, Immigration Law, Sports, and Other Random Topics by Retired United States Immigration Judge (Arlington, Virginia) and former Chairman of the Board of Immigration Appeals Paul Wickham Schmidt. To see my complete professional bio, just click on the link below.
DEPORTING THE INNOCENT – DESTROYING AMERICAN FAMILIES & COMMUNITIES – A TRUMP/SESSIONS/DHS SPECIALTY!
“Jorge Garcia, 39, bid his family farewell Monday under the watchful gaze of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who required him to return to his native Mexico after living in the Detroit area for 30 years.
Emotional video of Garcia hugging his wife and two children at Detroit’s Metro Airport captured the emotional trauma that deportations can cause for families. Though members of Garcia’s family all are U.S. citizens, he was technically living in the country illegally.
Jorge Garcia, 39, of Lincoln Park, Michigcan, hugs his wife, Cindy Garcia, and their two children Jan. 15, 2018, at Detroit Metro Airport moments before being forced to board a flight to Mexico to be deported.
“Yes, he was brought here at 10 years old and yes, he entered the country illegally, but he has no criminal record and his case needs to be looked at individually because he deserves to be here in a country that he’s known ― not Mexico,” his wife, Cindy Garcia, told CNN.
During President Barack Obama’s administration, Garcia received temporary extensions allowing him to avert a deportation order from 2009, according to the Detroit Free Press. ICE renewed the order in November and told Garcia he needed to exit the country by Jan. 15.
President Donald Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants includes widescale raids, arrests and deportations. From the time Trump took office until the end of September, ICE removals that resulted from an arrests increased by 37 percent over the previous year, the Department of Homeland Security said. Meanwhile, the number of people apprehended attempting to cross the U.S. southern border dropped to a historical low in fiscal 2017.
Garcia expressed sadness and apprehension about returning to a country he barely remembers.
“I got to leave my family behind, knowing that they’re probably going to have a hard time adjusting, me not being there for them for who knows how long,” he said in an interview with the Detroit Free Press the night before his deportation. “It’s just hard. It’s going to be kind of hard for me to adjust, too.”
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Senseless as it is cruel, stupid, and wasteful. As I’ve pointed out before, if this is how DHS is “setting priorities,” using law enforcement resources, and wasting taxpayer money, they clearly do not need any more agents.
Unacceptable! Just like the decision just announced to appeal DACA preliminary injunction.
They just don’t get it!
As they say in Spanish, Fuerza! One day, in the not so far future, when these little Americans can vote, they will remember who sent their parents away.
Yes, one has to hope and expect that the “chickens will eventually come home to roost” for the White Nationalist, restrictionist GOP and their inhumane and dumb policies. That’s why they are so anxious to suppress the Hispanic, Black, and other minority vote and gerrymander the country into lots of “safe White” Congressional districts. The problem with their plan is that folks are mobile. The GOP can’t count on politically engineered “white majority” districts indefinitely. Eventually and inevitably, the reality of demographics, that they so fear, will catch up with the GOP.
PWS
Roxanne Fantl
6 years ago
And we can only hope that those little chickens will be smart enough to cross the road…..And I have no doubt that they will…
Unacceptable! Just like the decision just announced to appeal DACA preliminary injunction.
They just don’t get it!
As they say in Spanish, Fuerza! One day, in the not so far future, when these little Americans can vote, they will remember who sent their parents away.
Yes, one has to hope and expect that the “chickens will eventually come home to roost” for the White Nationalist, restrictionist GOP and their inhumane and dumb policies. That’s why they are so anxious to suppress the Hispanic, Black, and other minority vote and gerrymander the country into lots of “safe White” Congressional districts. The problem with their plan is that folks are mobile. The GOP can’t count on politically engineered “white majority” districts indefinitely. Eventually and inevitably, the reality of demographics, that they so fear, will catch up with the GOP.
PWS
And we can only hope that those little chickens will be smart enough to cross the road…..And I have no doubt that they will…