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murder
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Fri Aug 03 21:11:29
U.S. deports Mexican wife of American Marine veteran

August 3, 2018

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - The U.S. government deported a Mexican woman on Friday who had lived in the country illegally for nearly two decades despite efforts by lawmakers to keep her in Florida with her husband, a Marine Corps veteran, and her two American children.

Alejandra Juarez, 38, was joined by her family and her congressman, Darren Soto, at Orlando International Airport for tearful farewells before her flight back to Mexico.

Juarez sought to illegally enter the United States in 1998 and was ordered to be removed, precluding her future chances at getting a visa or becoming a citizen, according to Soto and media interviews Juarez has given.

She illegally re-entered the country in 2000, the same year she married Temo Juarez, a Mexico native who went on to serve in the war in Iraq with the U.S. Marines and is now a naturalized U.S. citizen.

After being discovered in the country during a 2013 traffic stop, she had been required to check in every six months with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials.

Her lawyers said to reporters she was only now being deported because of U.S. Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy on illegal immigration.

ICE, which did not respond to questions on Friday, has said that Juarez’s re-entry after her removal is considered a felony.

“Mr President, you deporting me is not going to hurt just me; you’re making a veteran suffer,” Alejandra Juarez said at the airport. “You always say you love veterans. If you really love veterans, why didn’t you pardon me?”

Her husband has told reporters that he voted for Trump in the 2016 election.

Trump’s Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, was criticized by immigrant groups for deporting scores of non-citizen U.S. military veterans and for deporting immigrants whose only crime was re-entering the country after an earlier removal order.

Under new guidelines issued by the Obama administration in 2014, however, Juarez was considered a low priority for removal, her lawyers said.

Trump, a Republican, broadened ICE’s focus within days of taking office in 2017, saying no immigrants should be considered exempt from law enforcement.

Soto, a Democratic congressman, has sponsored a so-called private bill that would grant Juarez a visa if passed, a last-ditch, frequently unsuccessful recourse for immigrants who have exhausted other avenues.

Juarez has said her youngest daughter, who is nine years old, will come to live with her in Mexico because her husband frequently travels for his work running a flooring business.

http://www...n-marine-veteran-idUSKBN1KO268

murder
Member
Fri Aug 03 21:12:06

Trump had no choice! She is clearly MS-13!
Dukhat
Member
Fri Aug 03 23:53:08
"Her husband has told reporters that he voted for Trump in the 2016 election. "

Retard.
hood
Member
Sat Aug 04 00:25:35
What ever happened to family of citizens being citizens?
Im better then you
2012 UP Football Champ
Sat Aug 04 00:34:41
She is a member of a organization respondsible for countless deaths and crimes I'll feel safer when she's in Mexico.
Hot Rod
Revved Up
Sat Aug 04 05:22:58

hood - What ever happened to family of citizens being citizens?


I never heard of that one.

Paramount
Member
Sat Aug 04 05:53:30
”Temo Juarez, a Mexico native”

If her husband is also from Mexico why don’t they deport him too?


”Her husband has told reporters that he voted for Trump in the 2016 election.”

lol
murder
Member
Sat Aug 04 07:46:34

"Retard."

Actually ... lol!

Or maybe he secretly wanted her deported. Because it's not as if Trump kept his plans secret.

murder
Member
Sat Aug 04 07:50:26

"If her husband is also from Mexico why don’t they deport him too?"

I'm here for that party! The man is Mexican, admittedly violent, probably psychologically damaged, and clearly stupid.

Deporting him would make America greater again! :o)

murder
Member
Sat Aug 04 07:51:13
* revoke his citizenship and deport him
Rugian
Member
Sat Aug 04 08:11:56
On a related note, looks like service DOESN'T guarantee citizenship!

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AP NewsBreak: US Army quietly discharging immigrant recruits

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Some immigrant U.S. Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged, the Associated Press has learned.

The AP was unable to quantify how many men and women who enlisted through the special recruitment program have been booted from the Army, but immigration attorneys say they know of more than 40 who have been discharged or whose status has become questionable, jeopardizing their futures.

“It was my dream to serve in the military,” said reservist Lucas Calixto, a Brazilian immigrant who filed a lawsuit against the Army last week. “Since this country has been so good to me, I thought it was the least I could do to give back to my adopted country and serve in the United States military.”

Some of the service members say they were not told why they were being discharged. Others who pressed for answers said the Army informed them they’d been labeled as security risks because they have relatives abroad or because the Defense Department had not completed background checks on them.

Spokespeople for the Pentagon and the Army said that, due to the pending litigation, they were unable to explain the discharges or respond to questions about whether there have been policy changes in any of the military branches.

Eligible recruits are required to have legal status in the U.S., such as a student visa, before enlisting. More than 5,000 immigrants were recruited into the program in 2016, and an estimated 10,000 are currently serving. Most go the Army, but some also go to the other military branches.

To become citizens, the service members need an honorable service designation, which can come after even just a few days at boot camp. But the recently discharged service members have had their basic training delayed, so they can’t be naturalized.

Margaret Stock, an Alaska-based immigration attorney and a retired Army Reserve lieutenant colonel who helped create the immigrant recruitment program, said she’s been inundated over the past several days by recruits who have been abruptly discharged.

All had signed enlistment contracts and taken an Army oath, Stock said. Many were reservists who had been attending unit drills, receiving pay and undergoing training, while others had been in a “delayed entry” program, she said.

[More at link]

https://apnews.com/38334c4d061e493fb108bd975b5a1a5d/AP-NewsBreak:-US-Army-quietly-discharging-immigrant-recruits
murder
Member
Sat Aug 04 08:23:04
^ But it has nothing to do with race. Trump just found out that most of them are MS-13 ... and a few are even MS-15!

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