Deportations of illegals often leave children and their mothers separated
Advocates for illegal immigrants complain that deportations often leave children and their mothers separated. Unfortunately that is true and it can be gut wrenching. A recent example is that of Guadalupe García de Rayos, a mother of two U.S. born teenagers.
Garcia de Rayos, 35, came to the U.S. illegally with her parents when she was 14. The family settled in Phoenix. Garcia de Rayos got married and she and her husband gave birth to two children. She was arrested in 2008 for using a fake Social Security number and subsequently convicted of criminal impersonation, a felony. She was allowed to remain in the U.S. but required to report annually to the Phoenix office of ICE.
Wednesday, on her eighth annual visit to ICE, Garcia de Rayos got busted and within 24 hours she was taken to Nogales, Arizona where she was dumped into her native Mexico., sans her husband and children.
President Trump wants the criminals that are here illegally deported immediately. Garcia de Rayos obviously qualifies as a convicted felon, but you could hardly call her a threat to Americans. And it turns out that many of the illegals deported last week only had traffic violations on record. I was under the impression that Trump wanted to rid us of dangerous criminals like drug dealers, gangbangers, rapists and robbers, rather than traffic violators.
I think what ICE is doing here is playing jack-up the numbers game. It’s a lot easier to catch the traffic violators than the dangerous criminals.
As for the gut wrenching family separations, there is a simple solution and it isn’t to let illegals remain in this country. There is nothing to prevent immediate family members from joining the deportee in Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala or wherever.
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