Posted on 12/05/2017 1:25:57 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — It took nine days for Beatriz Morelos Casillas’ life to be completely upended.
On July 23, Ms. Casillas — who goes by Betty — was stopped by an officer in Painesville, Ohio for a routine traffic citation. Because she was in the country without authorization, the mother of four was detained and slated for removal from the U.S. Just over a week later, Casillas was back in Mexico, a country she had not seen in nearly 20 years, with only her jeans and the shirt on her back — and no legal way to reunite with her family.
Besides being in the country without authorization, she did not have a criminal record and, she said, paid U.S. taxes. She worked in a factory and was on the way home from work when she was stopped by police.
However, before entering the country illegally in 2001, Casillas had made one prior unsuccessful attempt at crossing the border without papers, which to her seemed like a minor incident at the time; she said she was interviewed by Border Patrol agents and turned back in a few hours. But that prior entry meant that, this year, her case qualified for an “expedited removal” — so she fell into a class of people who can be deported without access to immigration courts or lawyers.
In Mexico, Casillas is struggling to adjust to her circumstances. “I can’t realize my life here,” she said, “but I have to. It is really hard.” She passes her days inside, praying and worrying.
As often as she can, Casillas facetime chats with her family and tries to keep their spirits up. “All I can say to them, is keep the hope. Any day, I don’t know when, we’ll be together again.”
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I know Kate Steinle parents miss her so much it hurts.
Too bad, not sad.
It was pretty easy for her to find a Fake journalist.
How can she be an Ohio mom if she’s been repatriated back to Mexico?
Wouldn’t she be ‘immigrant mom once living in Ohio?’
This is why they should be returned to their country of nationality by giant catapult.
The law is the law, obey it!
She is not an Ohio mom. She is a Mexican citizen illegally in our country.
She has been returned to her own country.
The rest of the family should join her.
She had 20 years to try to get legal. If it couldn’t be done, she should have went home to her native country.
> she was in the country without authorization <
I love how the MSM refuses to use the term “illegal alien”. They used to say “undocumented”. Now it’s “without authorization”.
I think I will pick up on that. The next time I’m caught trespassing on Barbra Streisand’s California oceanfront property, I will say “I’m not trespassing, officer. I’m merely on the beach without authorization.”
Illegal alien dead beat Mom...
Abandoned her illegal alien children in another country...
“and no legal way to reunite with her family.”
Really? There is something preventing her family from visiting Mexico?
“So, this felon had an SSN ? how ? “
When my sister worked for H&R Block she had many illegal alien customers. One of them told her that periodically, they granted citizenship to people who could prove they were here for x amount of time. So, they all get social security numbers (anyone can get one, you don’t need to be a citizen, apparently) and pay taxes. That proves they were here.
"Without authorization"?
She made an illegal border incursion—twice.
She broke US law to enter the country—twice.
What is "in the country without authorization"? What the Hell kind of euphemism is that? This woman is an illegal immigrant, in a country where there are a myriad of ways to enter the country—and remain here—legally...
I have a solution: Her husband and her mongrel children can go to Nuevo Laredo. Problem solved.
No shes a Mexican illegal alien Mom gone back home and abandoned her illegal alien children...
why didn’t she take them home with her ???
I’m sorry Mexico sucks, but that’s not my problem.
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