Posted on 01/24/2017 4:43:25 PM PST by 11th_VA
An immigration rights activist whose own undocumented status was exposed by a drunken-driving arrest has lost her six-month legal battle to remain in the country.
Wendy Uruchi Contreras, a Virginia organizer for the immigrant rights group CASA, is scheduled to be deported to Spain this week after last-ditch appeals were denied by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, according to her husband, Giovani Jimenez.
“We are devastated,” said Jimenez, who lives in Fredericksburg, Va., with their American-born children, Alex, 13, and Lucia, 7. “My children are crying, but we know there’s nothing more we can do.”
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You mean illegal aliens. Right?
Sorry, but we have to stop automatically granting citizenship to babies born here to parents who are here illegally. They should remain citizens of whatever countries their parents are from. As it is, they wait till the kid born here is 18 or 21, then the kid can sponsor the parents for citizenship. I think only 2 countries in the world grant citizenship just because a person is born in the country, the USA and (I believe) Canada. I guess both countries were protected for a long time by the Pond that in today’s world is very small.
Quite right. I let my terminology slip.
My bad. A FReeper mentioned that he was legal and I was too lazy to check.
I cut up my old T-shirts for snot and sweat rags.
Give me an address and I will send them a few used ones.
In other words; “look in my eye, do you see anybody in there who gives a sh!t”.
NO, under the laws we have if they leave voluntarily they can get on the end of the list.
If we have to deport them it is a 10 year wait before they can apply to get on the back of the list.
We should not change our laws to accommodate those breaking them. We did that in 1968 and it resulted in 10 times the number of illegal aliens and a general disregard of all of our laws by foreigners.
There’s also a limitation on persons of bad character. I don’t remember it exactly, but one of the indications of being a bad character is phrased something like ‘a habitual drunkard’.
Birth right citizenship MUST end.
Where does President TRump stand on this issue?
Thanks!
1986
He wants it ended. Don’t you remember the fainting spells what Nominee Trump used the term Anchor Baby?
When that happened Ted Cruz said it would take a Constitutional Amendment to end Birthright Citizenship, and Trump called him on it.
Changes to Immigration Law only require an Act of Congress.
Lesson Learned: Don’t drink and drive. Don’t be a law violator as in illegal immigrant and don’t blame America for your own failures.
Hasty Lumbago, lady.
The Wash Post article never used the word “illegal” immigrant once, only the “undocumented” word. Talk about media corruption.
The Post would never call a burglar an “undocumented entry specialist” or a murderer a “population control specialist” so what’s with the “undocumented” crap?
Oh, I know, they love illegals who have turned No. Virginia into a low-class liberal shithole (but the liberals basically live in the wealthier neighborhoods where the Hispanic population isn’t, esp. in northern Arlington’s Lyon Park, and a lot of Fairfax County and definitely in Old Town Alexandria.
The religious hypocrisy of NIMBYISM is alive and well in the land of the elite, wealthy Democrats.
How is Arlington Forest holding up?
So how a about deporting her illegal alien husband too
Kick these criminal illegal alien invaders OUT!!!
If she’d done it here in NJ she’d probably be OK; it isn’t a crime (not even a misdemeanor), but a motor vehicle violation. As I understand it, in some other states it is a felony.
Rather than import Arabs to compensate for their negative birth rate, Spain traffics Latin Americans; she is probably one of them.
His wife’s arrest had been like a bomb landing in their precariously built lives. Jimenez had come to the United States in early 2001 from Bolivia. He met Uruchi online. She, too, was born in Bolivia but was raised in Madrid. She told him about her abusive stepfather in Spain. He told her to come to America. When they met at Dulles International Airport in October 2002, they had never even seen a photo of each other.
As a Spanish citizen, Uruchi entered the country under the United States’ visa waiver program, which allows visitors from 38 countries to stay for up to 90 days without a visa.
She and Jimenez got married, had kids and settled in Virginia. He worked as a trucker; she cleaned hotel rooms. When her back began to hurt, she took food safety courses and managed the hotel’s kitchen.
In 2013, Uruchi began to get involved in activism. Deportations had reached an all-time high of more than 409,000 the previous year. But Uruchi’s adolescence in Spain, where she saw women say and do what they wanted, had left the 4-foot-11 immigrant unafraid of speaking out. After meeting Casa employees at an event at the Salvadoran Embassy in D.C., she began attending the group’s events. Soon, she was organizing them. In 2014, she was hired full time as a Virginia community organizer.
What is her husbands status?
Why didn’t they apply to extend the visa?
She got way too bold.
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