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Deportation breaks apart families in Ohio, across nation
The BLADE ^ | 4/14/2013 | FEDERICO MARTINEZ

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: aliens; deportation; illegals; immigration; lawbreakerharmsfam; lawlessness; mexico; ohio; ruinsfamilies
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To: moonshinner_09

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?


41 posted on 04/14/2013 2:20:40 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: moonshinner_09
“I feel betrayed,” she said. “I don’t like my country very much right now."..

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.

42 posted on 04/14/2013 2:33:53 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: moonshinner_09

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.


43 posted on 04/14/2013 2:45:51 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Obama is the Chicken Little of politics)
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To: Caipirabob

What does it matter? Go back to your loser country...you criminal alien.


44 posted on 04/14/2013 2:46:09 PM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp?)
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To: Teacher317

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.


45 posted on 04/14/2013 2:57:52 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: moonshinner_09

take your spouse and rug rodents with you!!


46 posted on 04/14/2013 3:14:16 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: moonshinner_09
Deportation breaks apart families in Ohio, across nation

So does prison. So what? Break the law, deal with the consequences.

47 posted on 04/14/2013 4:33:59 PM PDT by montag813
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To: moonshinner_09
“I feel betrayed, I don’t like my country very much right now."

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.

48 posted on 04/14/2013 5:24:17 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: moonshinner_09

Lawlessness breaks families apart.

It’s very common.


49 posted on 04/14/2013 5:56:59 PM PDT by NoLibZone (None here can be puzzled by why Jews walked into the cars so quietly- we are walking up the planks.)
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To: moonshinner_09

They told me that if the Navy wanted me to have a wife they’d have issued me one.


50 posted on 04/14/2013 6:33:37 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: moonshinner_09
DD SS. These sob stories just about always include, deep in the text, the fact that these are repeat offenders.
They know how to game the system and they play the odds.
Sign the book as you enter or stay the fook out.

Mr. Perez has been deported twice. As punishment, he isn’t allowed to even apply for a visa until 2020.
The couple has discussed ways to be reunited. Mrs. Perez said she is willing to move to Mexico to be with her husband. He has suggested they find another homeland, perhaps Canada. Mr. Perez has talked about trying to sneak back into the United States a third time, but he said that is very dangerous and expensive.

51 posted on 04/14/2013 7:03:00 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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To: Cementjungle

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?


52 posted on 04/14/2013 7:16:58 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: GeronL

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.....


53 posted on 04/14/2013 7:24:36 PM PDT by caww
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To: Grams A

....”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....


54 posted on 04/14/2013 7:26:28 PM PDT by caww
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To: moonshinner_09

Why did she marry an illegal?


55 posted on 04/14/2013 7:27:51 PM PDT by thecodont
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Two points. She is an American citizen and an educated woman. She knows that a foreigner married to an American can get authorization to remain here, obtaining a green card and eventually citizenship. Why did they not do apply to do this? The only circumstance under which this would not be possible would be if the non-citizen had a criminal record. Could it be the journalist is hiding something from us?
Second, as others have said, no one is breaking up her family. They can move to Mexico. I appreciate her military service: but why marry an illegal? Is it someone else’s fault that she was imprudent?
56 posted on 04/14/2013 8:28:35 PM PDT by Godwin1
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To: GeronL
Why do people think it is okay to break the law without consequences?

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.

57 posted on 04/14/2013 10:52:56 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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To: Ray76
Criminals’ families are often [always] torn apart.

There.
Fixed it.

58 posted on 04/14/2013 11:02:09 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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