Posted on 12/18/2024 10:24:18 AM PST by Morgana
A Texas father says his four-month-old twins have been mistakenly deported along with their mother and siblings in an immigration mix-up.
Federico Arellano Jr says his wife Christina Salazar and their four kids were put on a plane on December 9 after missing a hearing with an immigration judge.
He says that he is a US Citizen - along with three of his four kids. It's unclear what Christina's status is.
Despite being born in Houston in October, the twins were sent to Mexico with their mother.
Now, Jr. is fighting to bring them all back, describing it as an ICE misunderstanding.
He said his children were crying as they and Salazar were taken into custody.
The distressed mother later told KHOU that Arellano Jr. was not allowed to say goodbye to the twins in the moment and she was unable to call for help after agents had ripped her cell phone away from her hands.
Attorneys Isaias Torres and Silvia Mintz, who are representing the family, said that Salazar was born in Mexico and married Arellano Jr. in 2019.
It's unclear how he obtained citizenship, or how long he has been living in the US.
The family believes they were harshly punished for simply missing the hearing.
Now, they are begging to be reunited.
'Because their babies are US citizens, they deserve to be here and get the attention they need - the medical attention they need,' one of their lawyers said.
'They were shocked and surprised that they were separated,' another added.
Trump and his incoming border czar Tom Homan have made no secret of their plans to implement mass deportations and family separations when they take office.
Homan makes no apologies for it either.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
more winning!
Oh no! Well.
All I can say is GET OUT.
So don’t fail to show up in court. That has consequences.
Biden, Harris & Mayorkas doing this solely for political gain!
Oh NOOOOOOOO! Trump is going to separate US citizen families and send them back to the home country that their “great grandparents” came from. /sarc
Is their anything the Commucrats won’t do to undermine Trump?
The left is expert at finding individual cases that tug on one’s heart strings. They are fully capable of ignoring the overwhelming majority of military age male invaders where there are no heart strings involved.
Get ready for more deportation sob stories. The media will not mention the terrorists and gang bangers. They will just report on the “poor illegal alien mother and her children” who are deported.
Blame Biden. He is President. He opened the border. He and Harris brought the nation to this point.
Remember...this is happening under Slow Joe.
I’ve noticed this. From here to Trump day there will be a lot of them.
“Trump and his incoming border czar Tom Homan have made no secret of their plans to implement mass deportations and family separations when they take office.
Homan makes no apologies for it either.”
The writer does know this is biden’s doing, right?
Not saying that they shouldn’t all be deported, but this is the way democrats always attempt to make their political point at the expense of the little people...they make it hurt.
Should have shown up for court. Adios muchacos!
Hmmmmm ...
There's a lesson here.
“ ‘Because their babies are US citizens, they deserve to be here and get the attention they need - the medical attention they need,’ one of their lawyers said”
Cry me a river.
My people have been here since the 1600s and now I’ve had MD Medicaid for almost two years and gotten NO treatment for anything I need tended to because no one here accepts it as insurance. .
This is confusing. According to the article, the father claims to be a citizen. He also says two or three (again confusing) of the kids are.
“ they were harshly punished for simply missing the hearing”
…you don’t just “miss” hearings dummy. When they’re missed it’s purposeful. A time killer, hoping for an extension until the “make up” hearing.
I guess I’m hard-hearted. Not separating babies from their mother does not tug at my heart strings.
Great.
Why does not Arelano Join them in Mexico?
If dad’s a citizen his natural children are also.
I’m surprised the article didn’t explicitly say that Trump and Homan were responsible for it. It didn’t say that this happened under biden.
Media is getting ready to blame everything that happens at the borders on Trump.
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