Posted on 02/10/2017 6:02:40 AM PST by Dacula
More than two dozen protesters held a rally Thursday night in front of a federal building in downtown Austin after a woman contacted an Austin immigration support group and told them federal immigration officials had detained her husband during a traffic stop in Southeast Austin.
Reyna Alvarado said her husband, Francisco Alvarado, was pulled over by federal officials on Riverside Drive near Wickersham Lane around 8:30 a.m. Thursday.
He is currently detained, though she was unsure where, Reyna Alvarado said. He told her wife on the phone that he is likely to be deported, she said.
Immigration officials told her that her husband had not shown up to an immigration court in San Antonio, she said. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials could not be reached for comment Thursday night.
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The Alvarados came to Austin from Honduras 10 years ago, Reyna Alvarado said. Her husband, who is undocumented, does landscaping work.
This month, newly-elected Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez changed the county jail’s policy regarding federal agents’ requests to detain inmates suspected of being in the country illegally.
Since Hernandez’s policy began, several Austin immigration activist groups have been concerned that federal immigration agents will increase operations to seek out and deport undocumented immigrants in Austin.
Reyna Alvarado said through a translator that she and Francisco had fled Honduras with their daughter because the “Maras” — a gang that was born in the U.S. and now has a heavy presence in Central America — had killed several of her family members.
“What do I do now?” Reyna Alvarado said through a translator. “I had to go to school and tell my daughter that they’ve taken her father away.”
The group ICE Out of Austin gathered Thursday night in front of the J.J. “Jake” Pickle Federal Building, at 300 Eighth St., to protest Francisco Alvarado’s detention.
“Our community feels that we are under attack,” said Alejandro Caceres, who founded the group. “We don’t think that anyone should be deported.”
Don’t see the problem.
Sounds like a good bust to me. Send him home.
They took a gamble that the US would do nothing. They bet wrong. They lose. All their property should be confiscated and sold to defray the cost of catching them and deporting them.
How could anyone feel sorry for these fools?
ICE should have detained the entire “crowd” to determine whether or not any of them could be deported.
How many in your dozen?
There hasn’t been any enforcement for a lot longer than the Obama years.
George W. Bush refused to enforce the laws, too.
It’s Honduras, not Mexico. Read the article.
Illegal aliens can’t apply once they are here.
They would have to go home and apply like everybody else who is a real immigrant.
She’s been here 10 years and still can’t speak English?
They’re like muslims - they come here to colonize, not to be Americans.
The wife and daughter are illegal aliens, too. Deport them all, we don’t want to split up families.
No, that was the women in Phoenix.
“..“What do I do now?” Reyna Alvarado said through a translator..” The irony is so thick. She thinks it’s wrong for her to be deported....after having been here all these years...and yet still needs a translator. DAFUQ?
I’m sure Honduras is as much of an idyllic paradise as Mexico.
They will get free taxpayer paid air fare back to what they undoubtedly refer to as “my country.”
Lucky them.
Either get a job or return to Honduras
The illegals love to wave their Mexican flags when they are here.
Why do they celebrate a country that sucks so bad they don’t want to go back. Would a Jew who fled Nazi Germany wave a Nazi flag?
Please go back to your country and fight the gangsters there. If everyone would stop running away from the bad guys there wouldn’t be so many refugees. And, after 10 years here, why oh why do you need a translator?
Is the wife illegal? Why didn’t they send all of them home
From the mass hysteria surrounding cases like this, you'd think that the INS was rounding up people and murdering them. In fact, all that's being done is the enforcement of a law that should have been enforced a decade ago.
The mass media and liberal politicians have created a false narrative where coming to the US unimpeded is some sort of basic human right for all of the peoples of the Third World. It isn't a right. It's a privilege, and like all privileges it must be granted selectively.
12?
Illegals ignoring bench warrants, having children, not learning the language. Plus somehow her family in Honduras was being killed by cartel members...maybe because they were the rival gang?
Turd world era wanting to make the US feel like home
They came during the Bush years
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