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EXCLUSIVE: Mexican immigrant — who’s married to American — can’t return to U.S. (trunc)
The New York Daily News ^ | 10/25/2015 | ANDY MAI, GINGER ADAMS OTIS

Posted on 10/25/2015 6:01:30 AM PDT by NYRepublican72

A Mexican immigrant married to an American citizen hasn’t seen his wife in a year — all because his tattoos made him look like a criminal, his family says.

Ruben Zamora, 29, has lived in the U.S. since he was 8 years old — and when he left the country in July 2014, he expected to be able to return to his wife and two children within weeks, his lawyers said.

Instead, his request to return from Mexico was denied, because officials at the American Consulate said he has gang tattoos — and, therefore, was part of a criminal enterprise.

“My kids, like every day they ask me for their dad . . . When is he coming back and I don’t have an answer for them,” sobbed Vanessa Ruiz, who met Zamora in 2004.

“It’s really tough,” she told the Daily News in an exclusive interview. “He’s no gang member. He’s always been working.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; US: New York
KEYWORDS: aliens; criminal; gangbanger; gangtattoos; illegalimmigrant; mexico; rubenzamora; tattoos
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
What is it with the law-breaking left that always makes them want us to shed tears?

For liberals, it's always about the children.

21 posted on 10/25/2015 6:42:53 AM PDT by NYRepublican72 (Democrats -- it's always someone else's fault.)
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To: NYRepublican72

Wouldn’t be surprised if obama took personal interest in getting this guy back in the U.S. whereas he would leave a natural born U.S. citizen to rot in a Mexican jail for no reason.


22 posted on 10/25/2015 6:43:30 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: NYRepublican72

especially the ones they murder by pulling their brains out and hacking their faces off on the abortion table....


23 posted on 10/25/2015 6:43:56 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Gaffer

” For him to be not approved means it’s more than just some tattoos.”

Really. We let all kind of nasty, murdering scum in here. There’s something serious going on with this guy.


24 posted on 10/25/2015 6:54:12 AM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: dljordan

They got a file on him and a whole lot of suspicions but they can’t pin anything on him - yet.


25 posted on 10/25/2015 6:56:08 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: NYRepublican72

I was hoping this was another ¡Yeb! thread. :)


26 posted on 10/25/2015 6:57:56 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Gaffer

“They got a file on him and a whole lot of suspicions but they can’t pin anything on him - yet.”

Suspicion of becoming Republican is the only one that’s relevant.


27 posted on 10/25/2015 7:01:08 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: DoodleDawg
If he came here when he was 8 then I doubt he had much say in breaking the law. But the tattoo was entirely his decision.

It was also his decision to stay here illegally since then. He could have gone home and tried to be legal as soon as he got out of his parents' house, not waited until years later.
28 posted on 10/25/2015 7:07:19 AM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: rightwingcrazy

The tattoo probably means he won’t ever get a W-2.....


29 posted on 10/25/2015 7:09:38 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Fai Mao

From his wife’s photo she is Hispanic also. Article says she was “born in Texas” I wonder if she is an anchor baby herself. She likely has family in Mexico.


30 posted on 10/25/2015 7:11:43 AM PDT by nclaurel
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To: NYRepublican72
Assuming he doesn't have a Green Card if he's not a citizen it doesn't matter about the tattoos.If he does have a Green Card the gang tattoos are enough to have it revoked on the spot.

TOUGH LUCK,PEDRO!


31 posted on 10/25/2015 7:18:43 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: NYRepublican72
Tattoo...A permanent reminder of a passing fad, gotten by those who want to express their individuality by doing the same thing everyone else is doing.
32 posted on 10/25/2015 7:53:33 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: NYRepublican72

Well, get married (OFFICIALLY, LEGALLY!), file for a green card, then wait 3 years. That’s what happens with everyone else. That’s what happened in my family. Except that because of the backlog, it ended up taking 5 years. So what? A non-citizen being able to live here is a precious privilege, it’s worth doing it the right way. Besides, if he came on a tourist visa and LEGALLY married a citizen, they’d give him a temporary card.

He’s probably got a criminal record he’s not talking about


33 posted on 10/25/2015 8:06:03 AM PDT by cookcounty ("I was a Democrat until I learned to count" --Maine Gov. Paul LePage)
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To: ExCTCitizen

I agree with you in principal, but I wonder how far down the family tree this should go.

The first generation born here in the USA should definitely be deported with their illegal parent(s). But suppose the lineage has been here for two or three generations.

Taking a black or white view of the issue, born to illegal aliens, having children born in the USA and those having children, are still illegal aliens. US law says you cannot profit from a criminal act, which the descendants would be doing by virtue of the fact that their ancestor(s) came here illegally.

Do we continue to deport, or do we grant amnesty to a second or third generation?


34 posted on 10/25/2015 8:13:56 AM PDT by Glennb51
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To: NYRepublican72

Exactly. . .nothing is keeping her from migrating there. . .but better do it legally because they will throw her in prison no-questions-asked if she does so illegally.

He’s affiliated with a gang and has the tats to prove it, along with—I wager—a criminal record.

No telling how many crimes he committed here in the states

THAT record is the true reason he is denied entry. . .not merely “harmless” tats.


35 posted on 10/25/2015 8:24:56 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: Fai Mao

BOTH


36 posted on 10/25/2015 8:38:32 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: NYRepublican72

So?? Waco arrested folks because they wore a patch. Which one is more legal?? Neither


37 posted on 10/25/2015 3:55:10 PM PDT by timlilje
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