Posted on 04/14/2013 1:11:22 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
It was three years ago, early morning, when Elizabeth Perez returned to her Cleveland home from the doctor’s office with good news to tell her husband, Marcos: She was pregnant with their second child.
For several moments, they celebrated with kisses, hugs, and tears of joy. Mr. Perez headed to work. A few minutes later, he was pulled over for a traffic-stop violation. Less than a month later, he was deported to Mexico City.
“Noooooo!” Mrs. Perez wailed into the phone receiver when immigration authorities called to inform her that her husband had been apprehended.
Mr. Perez would not be at his wife’s side when she gave birth to Marcos Antonio Perez. He would not be there to watch his eldest son, Ignacio Pele Perez, celebrate his second and third birthdays.
“I never feel such pain,” Mr. Perez said to The Blade in a telephone interview from his home in Mexico.
His words were interrupted by the sound of him sobbing uncontrollably.
“Oh, Jesus, it’s terrible. I want to be with my children. I want to be with my wife.”
The Perezes are not alone in their pain. More than 200,000 immigrant families have been torn apart during the past two years in the United States, according to a recent congressional report.
Even as a bipartisan group of senators wraps up work on a comprehensive reform bill that is expected to include a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants living in the United States, it may be too late for many families who’ve already lost loved ones to deportation.
(Excerpt) Read more at toledoblade.com ...
A quote from Mr. Perez: “Oh, Jesus, it’s terrible. I want to be with my children. I want to be with my wife.”
That is very easy to remedy Mr. Perez: Your wife and children can move to Mexico City! See how simple?
Kind of like how half my family felt when they went through immigration legally over a period of 10 years, only to have a great lot of criminal freeloaders cross the border illegally and score big on liberal welfare lotto.
Am i missing something here? He was sent back home because he was here illegally,and his family made the conscious decision to stay here instead of going with him. When I was a kid if my dad got a job somewhere else we all moved to that location. This family was not tore apart they chose to separate.
What does it matter? Go back to your loser country...you criminal alien.
The leftwingtards are not lamenting the damage done to the poor who work at WalMart and other retailers who’ve had their work time cut to 30 hours by ObamaKKKare.
take your spouse and rug rodents with you!!
So does prison. So what? Break the law, deal with the consequences.
What the.. what's Michelle complaining about? She can't get a wide-bodied jet for this month's vacation? Wot? The quote is from one of the women in the article? Oh.
Lawlessness breaks families apart.
It’s very common.
They told me that if the Navy wanted me to have a wife they’d have issued me one.
The question for her (and part of any legal naturalization process, do you get to stay or do you leave?): are her loyalties with her native country or North America? Does she wave the flag of her native country or the American flag if there is ever a conflict between the two?
Especially since ‘they know the risk’ from the start......All is fine until they get caught...then the tears flow, the weeping and wailing...and the standard..”It’s not fair”...and the “lists” of what they have contributed to the country.
With all their work you’d wonder why they didn’t do one thing to become legal.....
....”the family doesn’t have to be split up. They certainly can all leave together and I would be happy to help them pack. They make the choice to stay here”.....
Exactly....
Why did she marry an illegal?
Because they can, and the people elected to represent us enable the lawbreakers.
I am sure most Americans are charitable enough to reunite this nice family to anywhere in Mexico where her illegal husband is.
I'd chip in.
But it's not a matter of reuniting them, is it.
There.
Fixed it.
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