Posted on 03/19/2025 7:22:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin
An Orange County couple who came to the U.S. without authorization some 35 years ago, raised three daughters and now have a new grandson were deported to Colombia earlier this week, according to media reports.
Nelson Gonzalez, 59, and his wife Gladys Gonzalez, 55, originally entered the states near San Ysidro before ultimately settling in Laguna Niguel and starting their family.
While the couple tried numerous legal avenues to remain in the country over the years, including appeals to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Board of Immigration Appeals, a spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told The Orange County Register that the Gonzalez’s had “exhausted all legal options to remain in the U.S. between March 200 and August 2021,” and were ultimately in violation of immigration law.
Their three daughters, Gabby, 23, Jessica, 33, and Stephanie, 27, all U.S. citizens, told KTLA that they were devastated when they learned their parents had been detained on Feb. 21 during a regular check-in with U.S. immigration officials.
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Good find!
And good riddance.
Good. After 35 years they should find retirement back home quite affordable compared to newsomland. /s
POTUS et al: Make more public examples, PLEASE!
Low hanging fruit. There are tens of millions of them.
“In 35 years they never made any attempt to legalize their status?”
Third paragraph.
So she promotes and enables criminal illegal alien entry.
so sad, see ya ..
Well said.
Neither do I.
“She began her career at USAA where she worked for 19 years with her last role in the Office of CEO Support.”
USAA as in United States Automobile Association, that USAA?
How was she legally allowed to be hired and work. What was on the I-9 forms?
Yeah. And if they were forced to sell property, they’ll be buying an ocean front villa down near the peninsula.
More like USAID...
Looks like to me they made efforts, they just didn't succeed. " appeals to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Board of Immigration Appeals, "
yes
usaa and catholic charities committing crimes or
ICE is not doing a good job on the I-9s
either arrest the employers or
ICE may need to be DOGE’d
They have been committing a crime for 35 years. They are finally paying for it.
Too bad, too sad
usaa is an insurance company for veterans
They’re pretty woke these days, is my impression.
35 years is plenty of time to have applied for citizenship.
Many thanks! :-)
“In 35 years they never made any attempt to legalize their status?”
She is one of the Illegals who came in AFTER Reagan’s 1986 Amnesty, obviously assuming that there would be another Amnesty...it wasn’t easy, but we did prevent that.
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