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Illegal immigrant out of jail and into deportation process
TheNewsTribune.com ^ | Sept. 9, 2012 | LEWIS KAMB; Staff writer

Posted on 09/09/2012 7:16:39 AM PDT by moonshinner_09

A rare hot sun beat down on Tacoma in late August 2011, but Oscar Campos Estrada spent all of his time indoors. By then, Oscar had worn the gray uniform of a Pierce County Jail inmate for nearly four months. But the jail term was the least of his worries. Two decades after he illegally slipped over the U.S. border from Mexico, Oscar’s life as an illegal immigrant finally had caught up to him. A few months earlier, a Tacoma police officer had stopped Oscar on his drive to work for a cracked windshield. The cop quickly discovered Oscar was driving with a suspended license – an offense he’d been busted for several times before. Oscar was arrested and booked.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: aliens; illegalaliens; immigration; wa
“I’m illegal, but I’m allowed to pay taxes and pay child support,” = $900 per month child support payments to his estranged wife, Maria-Guadalupe..Oscar also worried that, should he be released, he wouldn’t have a job to go back to. He’d been making good money – $14 an hour – at a cabinet-making shop in Lakewood.

How does someone in the country illegally make $ 14.00 an hour ? The dude has to be using fake or stolen documents .When Oscar went to jail five months earlier, the child support payments that propped up his family halted. Maria-Guadalupe, Oscar’s estranged 39-year-old wife and mother of his first three children, instantly became the family’s wage earner. She took a dietary aide’s job at an East Tacoma nursing home where her oldest daughter, America, also worked. Nineteen, and four months pregnant, America started contributing part of her own modest paycheck to help support her mom, her brother and her 13-year-old sister, Magali. America also moved out of the family’s apartment and in with her boyfriend, Arturo, as a way to ease the family’s financial strain. But even with America’s help, Maria-Guadalupe struggled to maintain the family’s humble lifestyle. She worked longer hours – and into a higher-paying cook’s job. But the $1,200 to $1,400 she brought in each month fell far short of covering the family’s bills. Maria-Guadalupe canceled satellite TV and phone service first. When the family couldn’t pay the power, the utility company shut off electricity. Maria sent her kids to live with her father until she could get the power restored. She also began receiving food stamps to supplement her income.

Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/09/09/2284526/illegal-immigrant-out-of-jail.html#storylink=cpy

1 posted on 09/09/2012 7:16:42 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
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To: moonshinner_09

With that food stamp money, she probably can get some tattos, and get her navel pierced, and on the black market get a cell phone to send images to her disco friends. Keep helping people make these mistakes, WE never learn.


2 posted on 09/09/2012 7:35:20 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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I’ll bet she didn’t give up having her hair and nails done. Those are necessities, it seems.


3 posted on 09/09/2012 7:59:50 AM PDT by txrefugee
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Has immigration bothered to check the cabinet-making shop in Lakewood to see if they've hired other illegals? Also has this guy filed exempt for Income and Fica taxes? What about his records at that cabinet-making shop in Lakewood do they show him as working there for the last 2 decades or has he changed I.D. every year or two?
4 posted on 09/09/2012 8:21:58 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again")
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How are Uncle Omar and Auntie Zeituni doing these days?


5 posted on 09/09/2012 9:26:22 AM PDT by bgill
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Is the “wife” also an illegal?

If so, then get the whole bunch of them out of this country.


6 posted on 09/09/2012 11:09:01 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (I wanna start a Seniors' Motor Scooter Gang. Wanna join?)
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On a cold day in January 1992, Oscar and his pregnant girlfriend, Maria-Guadalupe, had just stepped out of a Mexican grocery near McKinley Avenue and East 40th Street, when two agents flashing INS badges converged on them.
Where’s your green card, one of them asked Oscar.
I don’t have one, he explained. But I’ve applied for one.
I was born in California, Maria-Guadalupe lied, when an agent asked her the same question.INS documents show Oscar signed a document agreeing to “return to my home country on the first available transportation.” Such offers are usually one-time deals – if the person doesn’t voluntarily leave, he forfeits any future chance to leave voluntarily.

Oscar said he may have signed something, but didn’t really understand what it meant.
“I don’t remember agreeing to anything like that,” he said. “I had no idea why they let me go, I was just glad they did.”

In the early 1990s, Oscar only knew a petition had been filed for him that could take years to process. He kept working. When tulips disappeared, he picked cabbage, then celery. To continue his employment, he illegally bought a Social Security Card from a legalized Hispanic man and had taxes withheld from his paychecks.

Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/09/09/2284287/part-i-a-rare-look-inside-tacomas.html#storylink=cpy


7 posted on 09/09/2012 11:10:57 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
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The immigrants with legal status (green cards) help their illegal brethren across the border.


8 posted on 09/09/2012 11:35:03 AM PDT by thecodont
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“The dude has to be using fake or stolen documents”

His employer knew he was a wetback. Probably all of the
employees at that cab. shop were illegal. The employer
should be charged as well. People who hire illegal aliens
should be prosecuted in the same way as drug dealers with
all their property being confiscated as ill-gotten gains.
By the way, a good craftsman is worth a lot more than
14.00 an hour but because of these illegal interlopers and
criminal employers, citizens are forced out.
True American craftsmen that have been through a full
apprenticeship are rare. I am disappointed to see
what passes for a Journeyman now days.


9 posted on 09/09/2012 12:03:27 PM PDT by Slambat (The right to keep and bear arms. Anything one man can carry, drive or pull.)
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he illegally bought a Social Security Card from a legalized Hispanic man and had taxes withheld from his paychecks.

Wait until this "legal" hispanic man gets a letter from the IRS wanting to discuss unpaid taxes...

10 posted on 09/09/2012 12:07:11 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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