Posted on 07/15/2025 8:14:53 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
It turns out that Carbajal may be so emotionally connected to illegal immigrants because he likely entered the US illegally himself.
The Santa Barbara Current reported on Carbajal’s immigration history in February this year. The Current shared the following:
In a previous article titled Consequences, Congressman Salud Carbajal’s inspiring immigrant story was briefly mentioned. However, his office strongly objected to the following statement:
“Salud Carbajal, who 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 success story is admirable, it is not the reason many argue for illegal immigration.”
His office specifically challenged the claim that he entered the U.S. illegally, calling it “patently and provably false.” In response, we invited Mr. Carbajal’s office to provide proof of his legal entry, given their assertion that such proof exists and given his extensive public discussion of his immigration story throughout his campaigns. The response? “We have nothing more to discuss.”
If Mr. Carbajal has publicly shared his immigration story for years, why is he now refusing to discuss it?
To be clear, we do not question Mr. Carbajal’s current U.S. citizenship and sincerely hope that he and his family entered the country legally in 1970. However, as an elected official advocating for immigration reform, transparency about his own immigration history is both relevant and necessary.
This response raised important questions and concerns:
Mr. Carbajal claims his legal entry is provable yet refuses to provide documentation.
He shared on X, formerly Twitter, a Mexican government photo stating, “This was the picture on my green card when I immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico in 1970 at age 5.”
The Bracero Program, which allegedly allowed his entire family to immigrate legally, ended in December 1964—one month after his birth and six years before his reported arrival in 1970. While Mr. Carbajal has frequently stated that his father was a farmworker, his official biography indicates his father worked in an Arizona mine when his family came to the U.S. The Bracero Program was limited to temporary workers in agriculture and railroads due to WWII labor shortages—the mining industry was not part of the program.
The program granted visas only to individual male laborers, not their families. If his father was a Bracero, how did the entire family enter legally?
Mr. Carbajal has stated that his family “was not separated” when they came to the U.S. if he was the “last of his seven siblings to come to the U.S” 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 he 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, yet he has also said he came to the U.S. in 1970, which would have made him six years old.
Further Questions
If you serve in the military, you definitely are a citizen.
Not in the USMC. Foreign nationals can join but there is no guarantee of citizenship in exchange for service. We had Afghans in our Company being trained to fight the Russians with the mujahedeen. Definitely not US citizens then or now.
This official US government website says you need to apply:
https://www.uscis.gov/military/naturalization-through-military-service
Book’em, Dano...
Deport him along with the Somali brotherf**ker.
>Oh noes! He’ll be a martyr!
He can be a martyr in some other country.
One thing is for sure. The government would know. They have records. If he was an illegal then how did he ever qualify for citizenship?
How the hell is it possible for someone who is illegal in this country to run for office?
Mind boggling.
His immigration status aside, which is a whole ‘nother mess to untangle, the fact that he engaged in violence against federal agents enforcing the law is enough to bring hi up on charges and cost him his seat.
Congressman Salud Carbajal is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Moroleón, Mexico, in 1964, and immigrated to the United States with his family at the age of five. He applied for U.S. naturalization in 1985 and became a U.S. citizen in 1990.
He could have benefitted from Reagan’s amnesty law in 1986. It’s not clear. He did serve in the US Marines honorably according to all sources.
Lock him up. Strip him of his credentials, can’t be a criminal and hold a Congressional office.
he clearly doesn’t care to uphold the oath of office to The Constitution of the US.
If that was true, then about 83% of Congressional seats would be empty.
At least 40% of 1986amnesty applications were fraudulent....
One of the Feb 1993 WTC bombers went through the 1986 program and was rejected for amnesty. Then they just let him stay, didn’t even look for him to deport him.
ICE officers were conducting criminal warrant operations at marijuana farms operated by the Glass House Brands Inc. in Carpinteria and Camarillo when chaos unfolded.
ICE has revealed that Mexican US Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-CA)
<><>was part of a violent mob of protestors attempting to obstruct ICE
<><>that he illegally doxxed an ICE agent
<><>that he brazenly handed the individual’s business card to members of the violent group.
<><>the doxxed agent was also “left bloody” after the mob hurled rocks at them.
A onetime Mexican immigrant, Carabal’s citizenship is being called into question.
Did they ever catch that woman with the mask and the pink cap? (it was from several weeks ago - L.A. or someplace else in California)
Is this who you mean?
Rachel Powell, dubbed the “Pink Hat Lady” and “Bullhorn Lady” for her actions during the January 6th Capitol riot, was arrested on February 4, 2021.
She was identified as the woman in the pink hat and a black jacket with a fur-lined hood seen in video footage using a pipe as a battering ram to break a window and using a bullhorn to direct others inside the Capitol during the January 6th attack.
Powell was charged with several offenses, including obstruction of an official proceeding, destruction of government property, and entering a restricted building with a dangerous weapon. She was found guilty on nine counts, including three felony charges and six misdemeanors. She was sentenced to 57 months in prison followed by 36 months of supervised release, and ordered to pay more than $8,000 in restitution, fines, and fees.
Powell began serving her sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution, Hazelton, on January 9, 2024, but was pardoned by Donald Trump on January 20, 2025, and released from the D.C. Jail the following day.
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