MISSION TEXAS — The Mission Chamber of Commerce staffer deported on illegal immigration charges last week did his job to a tee, according to his boss.
Chamber President and CEO Martha Palmer said she had hired Oscar Moreno as the business organization’s Membership director based on glowing recommendations from his former colleagues at Univision Channel 48.
"I feel for him because he was a good employee, she said. "He was a good, hard worker."
Immigrations and Customs agents deported Moreno June 5 during the federal agency’s 19-day crackdown on illegals. ICE officials had said "Operation Return to Sender" would focus on dangerous criminals and people who reentered the country after a judge deported them.
Moreno reported to work as usual June 5, Palmer said, but called her saying he had to leave the office and resigned that same day. He called her again the next day from Mexico, she said, to say he was sorry for the trouble he caused the chamber.
Moreno had been kicked out of the country at least twice before, court records show. He got in trouble the first time based on a 1997 marijuana charge, the San Antonio Express-News reported Thursday. In 2000, a U.S. District Court judge in McAllen sentenced him to 5 years unsupervised probation and sent him back to Mexico for concealing facts about his re-entry into the country.
Officials apprehended him again in March 2004 and charged him with resisting arrest, re-entering the country after deportation and importing marijuana.
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Cry me a river...
He sounds like a smart , educated guy. Why not just apply for a green card?
"Moreno had been kicked out of the country at least twice before, court records show"
Yeah, Mission, Texas Chamber of Commercerce: Great job of doing background checks on prospective employees.
Rest assured, your gov't is at work solving ALL the alien problems that surface (/sarc). For example, this letter to the editor appeared in an East Coast newspaper.
Dear Editor: Your readers may be interested in a federal initiative on this important subject (trafficking in sex). As many as 18,000 people are trafficked into the U.S. every year.
To help these victims, the Bush Administration launched a program called "Rescue and Restore" to identify trafficking victims, then provide them with access to shelter, legal assistance, job training and health care so they can establish lives free of violence and exploitation.
"Rescue and Restore" has a toll-free number (888-3737-888) to report suspected cases of trafficking and a Web site, www.acf.hhs.gov/trafficking/
Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery that we all must work to eradicate. With the help of concerned citizens, we can rescue those enslaved by this, restore their dignity and worth and end this barbaric practice.
Wade F. Horn
ASSISTANT SECRETARY
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
WASHINGTON, D.C