Astute Santa Barbara Current journos reported on Carbajal’s immigration history in February. The Current reported the following:
<><>In an article titled Consequences, Congressman Salud Carbajal’s self-described “inspiring immigrant story” was briefly mentioned.
<><>his office strongly objected to the following statement:
<><>“Salud Carbajal, immigrated illegally with his family at age five (first to Arizona and then) to Oxnard, where his father worked on a farm.
<><>Salud eventually became a U.S. citizen, served in the military, and was elected to public office.
<><>While Salud’s self-adulating “success story” is admirable, it is not the reason many argue for illegal immigration.
<><>His office specifically challenged the article’s claim that he entered the U.S. illegally, calling it “patently and provably false.”
<><>The fair-minded journos’ response, was to invite Mr. Carbajal’s office
<><>to provide proof of his legal entry,
<><>based on their own assertions that such proof exists
<><>given Carbajal’s extensive public discussion of his immigration story throughout his campaigns.
<><>Carbajal’s arrogant response? “We have nothing more to discuss.”
Carbajal’s self-congratulatoy story has many holes which
makes his position in Congress more tenous by the minute.
FTA——The Bracero program granted visas only to individual male laborers........ not their families.
<><>If Carbajal’s father was a Bracero, how did the entire family enter the US legally?
<><>Mr. Carbajal has stated that his family “was not separated” when they came to the U.S.
<><>but says he was the “last of his seven siblings to come to the US”
<><>how can both statements be true?
<><>He was born in Moroleón, Mexico—1,000 miles from the U.S. border.
<><>If his family traveled that distance, who facilitated their journey?
<><>If Carbajal arrived later, how did a young child travel that far alone?
<><>He has stated multiple times that he was five years old when he immigrated,
<><>and has also said he came to the US in 1970, which would have made him six years old.