Posted on 06/12/2025 11:15:57 PM PDT by TheDon
Loved ones are heartbroken after a grandmother self-deported to Mexico, leaving her family behind after living in Southern California for 36 years.
The woman, identified only as Regina, is a 51-year-old mother and grandmother who has lived in South Los Angeles since 1989.
While working to gain citizenship in the U.S., she raised a family and was employed as a garment worker in L.A.’s Fashion District.
As the Trump administration began increasing its immigration enforcement efforts, Julie Ear said he mother grew frightened over what her future would look like.
“She was afraid they would come to her house,” Ear told KTLA’s Sandra Mitchell. “She was afraid to drive, to be pulled over and taken in.”
Wanting to be in control of her life, Regina made the decision to self-deport. On June 7, the family drove to Tijuana, Mexico, and said goodbye to Regina as she boarded a one-way flight to Mexico City.
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This is the way
And in the mean time, she got a check for $1,000.
She couldn’t attain citizenship in 36 years? My ass.
She passed on the $ 1,000.00.
“Earsaid her mother did not want to take advantage of the Trump administration’s Project Homecoming, a program that offered those who self-deported a $1,000 stipend and a free outbound flight.”
The problem with any argument against this is that it inevitably leads to open borders which is insanity. Gotta have laws.
So she filed false tax returns for 36 years? How many tens of thousands of dollars did she receive tax “refunds”?
Who did she give her fraudulent Socialist Security Number to?
Just go down to the Citizenship Store, and ask for One Citizenship, please.
This program granted amnesty to nearly 1.3 million undocumented immigrants who could prove 90 days of agricultural work before May 1986. Due to limited resources at the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), applications were rarely verified, allowing widespread fraud. Abouhalima’s green card, granted in 1990, enabled him to work freely and travel internationally, including to Pakistan for combat training, which facilitated his terrorist activities. The IRCA legalized about 2.7 million undocumented immigrants overall, primarily those who entered the U.S. before January 1, 1982, or who qualified as agricultural workers.
She can now pursue legal entry. A wise move on her part.
She probably couldn’t stand being with them anymore.
51 YO...
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My ass too.
No mention at all of her legal status, which implies that she’s been here illegally for 36 years. But still the author tries to pull at our heartstrings with this sad story. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde’s quip on the death of Dickens’ Little Nell: “One must have a heart of stone to read the departure of Grandma without laughing.”
The rest of the story is that she created a bunch of American citizens while she was here, and they’ll turn around and sponsor her to come back next week.
Forgot to mention it took my grandfather about 7 years to be naturalized after arriving at Ellis Island from Holland in 1913 with his wife and three boys, one of which was my father who was 8 at the time. My grandmother died before becoming a citizen. The three boys were naturalized when their father was.
My mother and her brother came here around 1923 from Canada with their mother. When my uncle enlisted into the Army in 1942, he hadn't yet become a citizen. The government had no entry date for him, so they drove him from Rochester, NY to Niagara Falls. Made him walk across the Peace Bridge and back, and used that as his entry date. On his way to the west coast to go overseas (China, Burma, India theater), his unit was barracked briefly at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. It was while he was there that he was naturalized in a Federal Court. I've got a copy of the court paper that I found via Ancestry.com.
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