Posted on 05/11/2025 9:56:52 AM PDT by george76
A 64-year-old grandmother in the U.S. without documentation is facing deportation after she mistakenly took the wrong exit on her way home from work.
Ana Camero’s family says she’s currently being held at Otay Mesa Detention Center more than a month after she made the unexpected detour and ended up at the entrance to a U.S. Marines facility in San Diego.
Camero was driving home from her job as a dishwasher at a La Jolla restaurant on April 7 when she stopped to get gas. She then drove into the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego by mistake. There, she was asked for proper identification and when she could not provide one, immigration enforcement was called, officials said.
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Camero has lived in the United States for more than 20 years. Born in Mexico, she does not have a California driver’s license or any other form of identification
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A spokesperson for the Marine Corps Recruit Depot said in a statement that when someone tries to enter a federal installation without proper authorization they are required to provide a government-issued form of identification.
“When an individual cannot or does not provide the required form of identification the appropriate federal authorities, including U.S. customs and border patrol are notified. This applies regardless of whether the individual claims the entry was by mistake,” the statement said. “As a federal installation, we are mandated to uphold all federal statutes [or laws].”
Camero’s family said that officials at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot contacted U.S. Border Patrol after Camero could not present a valid form of identification.
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so what?
Hey LA Slimes filth, she’s being deported due to the former, not the latter...
If the L.A. Times is trying to gin up sympathy for “Grandma”, they failed miserably.
Trespasser who is in the country illegally faces deportation. As she should. Period.
“Camero was driving home from her job as a dishwasher at a La Jolla restaurant...she does not have a California driver’s license or any other form of identification”
Undocumented = ILLEGAL, driving around without a driver’s license and NO Insurance for 20 years. DEPORT with extreme malice.
Well....was this grandmother an ILLEGAL ALIEN? Yes? Then deport her. The law is clear.
How dare them, enforcing THE LAW like that!
Gotta love the LA Times. Their headline implies that the woman is being deported simply because she made a wrong turn.
Uh, no. She is being deported because she broke our immigration laws, and is in the country illegally.
As a side point, it looks like the woman is an honest worker. Pity she didn’t fill out the forms and immigrate legally. But that’s on her.
And Sanction employer for hiring ILLEGALS!!!
“… from her job as a dishwasher at a La Jolla restaurant…”
Guess which restaurant gets a visit from ICE on Monday!
“If the L.A. Times is trying to gin up sympathy for “Grandma”, they failed miserably.”
I think we are being manipulated, first the really bad cases, then more sympathetic ones.
Going back to the DOGE controversy of last month - now completely forgotten:
Did she have a social security number?
If so, was she even aware of it?
Was her employer paying FICA to this social security number?
Who controlled her Social Security number?
What other state / Federal benefits was she receiving?
Yes
No license, no insurance, and poor driving skills. Wonderful. One of millions. Causing the wrecks licensed, insured citizens won’t. One of the many reasons my insurance rates have skyrocketed, and one that could have been completely prevented.
Didn’t this same thing happen to a ‘Michigan grandmother’ about a month ago?
We need more road signs in foreign languages!
Oh the humanity. Wait, she’s touching dishes in a restaurant and she was never vetted for medical conditions?
Where’s the counter story? Time to blow this $hit up.
She should have made that left turn at Albuquerque.
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