California father who’s lived in U.S. since he was 2 faces deportation after ICE arrest

WGN-TV ^ | January 26, 2018 | BY TRIBUNE MEDIA WIRE

[COBOL2Java]

Make an example of him and send him back wherever he came from.

Exactly.

[umgud]

He knew he was here illegally... did he make any effort to remedy that?

Heretofore, he had no need to do that.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Guy cuts in front on the line and still thinks he’s special. He’s a insult to every legal immigrant.

[ican'tbelieveit]

He is taking a job illegally. Why is his employer not in trouble? Whose ID has he stolen to get and maintain that job? Another crime.

[wastedyears]

[Sacajaweau]

It looks like he was eligible for DACA....unless he did have a felony.

[COBOL2Java]

He is taking a job illegally. Why is his employer not in trouble? Whose ID has he stolen to get and maintain that job? Another crime.

The reporter curiously left those little details out of this sob story.

[Betty Jane]

The media would never show gang bangers being deported. That would make normal people cheer ICE doing their job. All illegals need to be gone, no matter their present circumstances.

[LouisianaJoanof Arc]

He had plenty of time to apply for and receive citizenship. No sympathy from me.

Deport him.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Deport a few, the rest will quickly get the message. That’s why illegal entry is down.

[tennmountainman]

Deport him.

[BykrBayb]

He works as a manager at a solar panel company in Chatsworth and is a youth football coach.

Doing the jobs Americans won’t do? How low is the pay, and how poor are the working conditions, that they couldn’t find an American to fill that slot?

[Tench_Coxe]

You know, in the case of the "Dreamwrs", in my mind its a simple question:

Ok, your parents brought you here at a young age. Since that time, have you:
1. Taken steps to become a citizen or permanent resident?
2. Made the most out of the opportunity, i.e., gotten education, contributed to society (working, paying taxes, not working the system), etc.
3. Have stayed out of trouble (no felonies or continuous string of misdemeanors)?
4. Can show proof that you have tried to integrate into society?

If the answer to any of those is "no", you have to leave. Apart from the "dreamers", if you're illegal, you go back.

[Alberta's Child]

If he was here for 28 years he would have been a candidate for DACA registration.

But his criminal record disqualified him for temporary protected status under DACA to live in the U.S.

Cry me a river.

[Pollster1]

The rule of law means something. Deport him. Deport them all.

[MortMan]

DUI & felony narcotics. His deportation is long overdue.

[lodi90]

Foreign national unlawfully present in the United States faces deportation.

[COBOL2Java]

It looks like he was eligible for DACA....unless he did have a felony.

Well, felony narcotics posession did kind of screw that up for him.

[Night Hides Not]

Cry me a river.

Aw c'mon AC, what's a few measly misdemeanors?

[lodi90]

This man is an illegal alien who has compounded that crime with further crimes. Make an example of him and send him back wherever he came from.

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Worse, actually. He’s a criminal alien. No American with equivent charges in Mexico would ever be allowed to live there. Period. What’s good for the goose...