Posted on 08/17/2017 8:27:05 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
SAN FRANCISCO — The much-publicized saga of Highland Hospital nurse Maria Sanchez and her husband Eusebio, who for the last 15 years had sought to obtain green cards and remain in the U.S. legally, ended with hugs and tears Wednesday night before the undocumented couple boarded a flight bound for their native Mexico.
They had booked their flight Tuesday after receiving word that a final attempt to delay their deportation had been denied by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The couple is now prohibited from returning to the U.S. for a decade, when they can begin the process all over again, according to federal law.
“Today I am going to leave, as I promised to do,’’ Maria Sanchez calmly told reporters and photographers gathered near a United Airlines check-in counter at San Francisco International Airport after the family arrived around 9:15 p.m. “But it’s hard to leave my kids behind.’
The couple — who had spent the last week hoping for the best but preparing for the worst — took their 12-year-old American-born son with them to Mexico.
But their three daughters — 16-year-old Elizabeth, 21-year-old Melin and 23-year-old Vianney — will stay in Oakland to care for one another in the home their parents managed to finally buy last year. Vianney is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz, and Melin will graduate from the school next spring.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Because they didn’t want to be Americans, until they realized they were going to be kicked out!
"But their three daughters — 16-year-old Elizabeth, 21-year-old Melin and 23-year-old Vianney — will stay in Oakland to care for one another in the home their parents managed to finally buy last year."
"“I don’t feel it was a failure — it’s a challenge,’’ said Maria, much like the many others she has faced and overcome during the last 23 years she’s lived in the U.S.
All I know is that I LOVE a HAPPY ending!!
"You know what we always say: When a door closes, a window opens. One day there will be another president who will not be Trump."In that quote, in the last paragraph of the article, the deportee reveals her attitude to immigration laws: When the legal door was closed she merely broke in through the window. And after now being deported she only waits for Trump to leave office to sneak back in.
And the open-borders crowd (of Democrats & RINOs) is both fine with that attitude and with encouraging it.
No, they couldn’t have applied to be citizens 15 years ago if they entered this country illegally. On what legal basis could they have qualified for a green card and a path to citizenship?
She worked as a nurse. How was she employed without an SS number? How did he work without an SS number? Was there identity theft involved?
Canada does not need nurses. We graduate and train far more nurses than we need. A close family member has a university degree in nursing and worked as an ER nurse in Canada. She is working now in the US, LEGALLY with a work visa and a US SS number IN HER OWN NAME because that's the only way she can LEGALLY work in the US. It is actually not that difficult to do it LEGALLY. The hospital where she works relies on Canadians for at least 25% of their nursing staff. Every one of them has a US visa and a US SS number and can LEGALLY work in the US.
She would have had to return to Mexico and then identify someone to sponsor her. The fact that she was here illegally and had given birth to US citizens would have been discovered in the process.
They have been here for over a decade, try being a citizen and NOT paying your taxes for a decade....
Hit the Road Jack!!!!
Don’t come back no more.
The article says they have been trying to obtain legal citizenship for many years, but have not.
Nowhere does it say why? Were there issues of past or present that disqualified them? Was the application process too expensive to pay for? This does not excuse the incident.
I just want to understand what brought them to this point.
I’m all for deporting those who ignore or break the law, but I’ve always heard that applying to become a legal citizen here is very expensive and time consuming. I know of people who say it took over ten years! Why? To keep collecting fees and penalties the way Traffic Court or Business Licensing likes to do?
Perhaps the main reason for the process being time consuming except due to the volume of applications.
So, then, hire more people to expedite the process.
People should not be verging on going broke because of an expensive application process, if IF this is what’s going on.
This article says she was an LVN. And now is a Registerd Nurse.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/10/facing-deportation-oakland-family-pleads-for-more-time/
she was certainly not a nurse, an RN. That’s what they called her but she was most likely just some kind of patient care technician.
Good questions. She probably had a ITIN number or a stolen SSN. The ITIN is for federal income taxes purposes only. If you are here illegally, under the law, it is illegal to work here and it is also illegal for someone to employ you. She must have also lied on her I-9 form, which is a felony.
Kick all these criminals out! Seize their assets. Stop wasting money flying them...drop them at the border.
First time I’ve seen that job description of PCT.
I presume it’s similar to being CNA, or Certified Nurse Assistant. That usually entails someone to do the vitals, administer medication and most of all, do personal care, aka
toileting care as needed. It’s hard, potentially backbreaking work unless you know how to pace yourself and avoid becoming burnt out or numbed and detached to your surroundings.
I read elsewhere thst the husband had legal issues and is already back home
Probably got a nice middle class life ready to go and doesnt Mexico need nurses?
How bad would it have to be to get turned down by the OBAMA regime?
My question too, What legal process is there to stay in the the US once you enter illegally, by a visa overstay or otherwise? The process should be, you get a work visa, a SS number, and whatever else you need, then enter the country.
Re: Obama. The only reason possible he refused them any relief must be that they are demonstrably Christians, like the German family he deported back to their country to answer for the crime of home schooling their children.
So what's that? A paid candy-striper?
Yeah if she has a ten-year bar, no matter what her nursing status is, she won’t get an H1B.
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