…where I hate reading the newspaper.
A couple come to the US from Guadalajara, Mexico 20 years ago to help an ailing relative, scratches and scrapes to make it here, pays their own way, pays taxes, starts a business, buys a home…
During that time, they had three more children and got driver’s licenses and Social Security numbers.
Jose went from working in the strawberry fields to starting a construction business, saving $11,000 for a down payment on a $180,000 home.
…tries to secure legal resident/citizen status but are taken by a Tustin immigration lawyer who actually puts them straight in the radar of INS, until finally…
Jose Nuñez was getting dressed for work when five Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers knocked on her door July 25. They wanted to take both parents, but when they realized four young children born in the U.S. were involved, they took only Jose and told Abigail she had a few weeks to get her affairs in order and leave the U.S.
It’s a scenario that could start to play out more and more as Immigration and Customs Enforcement increases efforts around the state.
Yeah, we’re safer today and our economy is certainly better because this family has been deported and banished for 10 years.
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