'It's an absolute disgrace': tears and anger as wife of US marine deported to Mexico

[turbinetree]

Alejandra Juarez forced to leave husband and daughters in Florida after exhausting all options to stop her deportation

The 16-year-old American daughter of a US marine held back tears as long as she could before her family was split in two.

Her mother, Alejandra Juarez, was finally leaving for Mexico, rather than be sent off in handcuffs, after exhausting all options to stop her deportation.

“My mom is a good person. She’s not a criminal,” Pamela said, cursing at the immigration agency before her mother checked in on Friday for her flight from Orlando international airport.

Alejandra and Temo Juarez, a naturalized citizen who runs a roofing business, quietly raised Pamela and their nine-year-old daughter, Estela, in the central Florida town of Davenport until a 2013 traffic stop exposed her legal status.

Afterward, she regularly checked in with US Immigration and Customs officials, which typically went after higher-priority targets like people with criminal records.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/03/us-marine-wife-alejandra-juarez-deported-mexico

[yardwork]

1. The husband voted for Trump. What did he think would happen?

[turbinetree]

2. When I read the article I saw that also and I thought...............he told you and others

when he came down those stupid escalator stairs....................

[yardwork]

3. People believed what they wanted to believe about Trump.

[Hekate]

7. A lifetime of Clinton-bashing took its toll as well. Gods only know what went thru his head. nt

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. Will he STILL vote for Trumpy?

I'd say it's a toss-up. You vote for Trumpy, you vote for crazy.

[SweetieD]

5. Also the woman herself said she supported Trump, she just couldn't vote.

If she was eligible to vote I guarantee she would have voted for Trump too.

[struggle4progress]

13. He heard what he wanted to hear and disregarded the rest

[Blue_Tires]

22. +1

[robbob]

25. Lie lie lie?

😁

[Takket]

16. Exactly

No sympathy. You voted for hate, xenophobia and intolerance. You got exactly what you wanted.

[tonedevil]

17. If you vote for trumpo...

you get the rumpo.

[tblue37]

29. Reality bites back:

"I never thought the leopards would eat MY face," sobbed the woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

[Sanity Claws]

6. What about the disgrace of being a Trump voter?

What an idiot! Look at what his idiocy did to his wife and children.

[marylandblue]

10. According to the article, she did apply

But was rejected because of allegedly making a false statement when she first entered the country. That kind of problem can be difficult to fix for people not named Melania.

[nini]

9. I have zero sympathy for them....their kids maybe but not her or the husband

They voted for hate. Let them suffer the consequences now.

And I say that knowing how jaded that mother fucker has made me.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

39. Well, her husband did. She probably couldn't vote.

She's not a citizen.

[struggle4progress]

11. Ivanka: Family separations 'was a low point'

By Betsy Klein, CNN
Updated 10:15 PM ET, Thu August 2, 2018
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/02/politics/ivanka-trump-immigration-family-separation/index.html

"When we go low, we stay low and try to go even lower!"

[Jake Stern]

12. While it's tragic she's been deported after living an otherwise quiet, law abiding life

I'm growing increasingly tired of people, like her and her family, that think they should receive special consideration because Hubby was in the military.

[John Fante]

15. That was their rationale for supporting Trump, I'm sure of it.

"My husband is a vet, I'm safe. It's these other illegals that need to watch their back, hahaha!"

What can I say, tots and pears.

[struggle4progress]

14. ... US Rep. Darren Soto, a Florida Democrat who represents the district where the woman lived,

had introduced legislation to stop her deportation.

Soto on Thursday said letters were sent to President Trump and government agencies asking for a stay of removal. "If the president really claims to support veterans, he should stand with the Juarez family and reconsider Alejandra's deportation," Soto said in a statement. "While Mr. Juarez was abroad fighting to defend our country, Mrs. Juarez was at home raising his daughters, serving in the same manner as military spouses do across our nation."

The Davenport resident has no criminal record but faced a removal order over her 1998 illegal entry into the United States, Soto said. She's married to a former Marine and Iraq War veteran, and they have two girls, ages 8 and 16, who are US citizens ...

Soto said he's disappointed by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's decision ...

Deportation order sends wife of former US Marine to Mexico
Posted: Aug 03, 2018 10:15 PM EDT
Updated: Aug 03, 2018 10:40 PM EDT
By Faith Karimi and Sheena Jones CNN

[kacekwl]

21. And yet the trump supporting hubby says

He doesn't blame Trump ! Who the fuck does he blame ? How does anyone explain this ?

[struggle4progress]

24. Good German denial syndrome: "I don't think Hitler knew about the gas chambers"

[uponit7771]

36. +1, there are Red Hatters claiming Trump didn't directly order kidnapping at the border too

[LandOfHopeAndDreams]

18. I Really Don't Care, Do You? nt

[AlexSFCA]

19. karma at its finest, I feel sorry for the kids

However, the children will learn a life changing and important lesson. They may grow up dem activitlsts for all I know. Also, they can always visit their mom in Mexico. In fact, they can even move closer to the border and see each other daily.

My heart goes out to toddlers in jails, children locked up in internment camps who are abused, drugged, malnurished daily. By all accounts, the kids in OP have a good life. Let them never forget who their father voted for and let this empower them for the good of our country.

[Meowmee]

20. They did this to themselves

By supporting a monster and thinking they would be exempt because he is in the miliatry probably. I feel sorry for their children. They still support him too apparenly. It’s hard to fathom this kind crazy.

[Igel]

23. Probably thought "small fry."

Sort of like the reaction, I imagine, to the state trooper who spent part of the day making loops around one block near where I live. All he did was pull over people for not signaling a lane change as they turned right and then cut across two lanes of traffic to reach a freeway entrance ramp.

"What? Pulled over for not signaling?" Yes. On the other hand, in the last year they've swept up glass maybe a dozen times and replaced the crosswalk pole twice because of people running into each other in that 200-foot stretch of road.

This is "broken windows" policing applied to immigration enforcement.

[Meowmee]

35. Yep

Funny comparison😹

[ooky]

26. Its outrageous to deport a veteran's spouse, and yet,

they made their bed! What is left to say? This is stupid in the raw.

[Jake Stern]

32. It's no more outrageous than deporting anybody else's spouse

They assumed because hubby was a veteran that they were going to get special treatment. You post just reinforces the idea that veteran's deserve special cosideration.

[ooky]

33. I'm not "reinforcing" anything. To be clear, I don't support the deportation of anyone who is

in the family of an American citizen. And I don't care how they became an American citizen. If the family is here and living their life here together as a family and one is a citizen, the government needs to leave them the hell alone.

But, yes, I think its especially outrageous when you do it to someone who has put on the uniform of our country and served, particularly when you use our military as a political prop. They were really stupid to vote for him.

[JDC]

27. Don't forget to write. Sorry for the kids, but vote Trump, take your medicine

Best wishes to the innocent kids. That is the real tragety here.

[paleotn]

28. Sympathy for her and her children

Zero sympathy for him. You own it, dickhead.

[workinclasszero]

30. The man voted for Trump

I just....

[Jakes Progress]

31. Neither he nor she cared about other migrants.

Now they want special treatment after turning their backs on and betraying others like themselves. Not surprising that selfish, stupid people like this voted for trump.

[hatrack]

38. So, you voted for Trump? Fuck you.

You still support him, even after this? Then double-fuck you.

[Efilroft Sul]

34. Make Adios Great Again

This is an effed-up story on so many levels.

[Achilleaze]

37. republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief pisses on Marine family

Freaking republicans should just shut up, and stop pissing on America's POWS, Gold Star Families, and Veterans. Disgraceful what the five-time republican draft dodger does with the full submissive approval of the republican party. Disgraceful.