Posted on 01/19/2026 6:34:45 PM PST by TheDon
A family in Long Beach said it has left the home and community behind as it feared the Trump administration’s immigration policies would eventually catch up with its family member.
The Burgueno family, made up of a U.S. citizen matriarch, her undocumented husband and their teenage son, said Monday that it has taken the final steps to self-deport. “We crossed the border in Otay,” Sonia Burgueno told NBC Los Angeles at the U.S.-Mexico border Monday. “We packed as much as we could.”
Calling it the hardest decision her family has ever made, Sonia Burgueno had deep roots in Long Beach: she and her husband built Franks Landscaping together from the ground up, serving the same community in which they raised their family.
“We had our business for over 20 years. Our clients were like family,” the matriarch said.
But Burgueno said fear took over their lives for the last few months as her husband, an undocumented immigration with no criminal record, began to feel watched and followed.
“He came home crying and said, ‘I’m not a criminal. I don’t want to live like this anymore.’”
Rather than waiting for a knock at the door, the family chose to leave on its own terms after selling its business, pulling the teenage son out of high school and eventually moving to Sinaloa, the hometown of Francisco Burgueno, Sonia’s husband.
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“What matters most is that we are staying together,” Francisco Burgueno said.
The family said the move is an ending and a new beginning.
“You can build a good life anywhere as long as you do it with love,” Sonia Burgueno said.
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Their words at the end are great!
¡Adios!
““He came home crying and said, ‘I’m not a criminal.”
Yes, you are.
L
Should have gone through legal means and did the paperwork.
20 years to get right and he ignored the law. I don’t feel bad. Snooze ya loose!
Vaya con Dios!
Trumps fault.
Winning.
He felt followed and watched? Then why wasn’t he apprehended?
Here’s why I don’t feel that way. Here legally and haven’t committed any crime.
This family has no one to blame but Mayorkas and Biden, offering an illusion They opened the border, “come on back to YOUR country”, the land of free food, free healthcare, free housing.
That’s a shame.
Everyone loves a happy ending
And they will likely live very well in Sinaloa with the money they’ve made in America. I wish them well. No hard feelings. But it’s time for them to go back. Maybe someday they can back the right way, or maybe not. But they’re not victims, unless it’s of Democrats who told them it was okay to ignore U.S. immigration law.
moving to Sinaloa, the hometown of Francisco Burgueno
Remigration - it’s a beautiful thing.
Yay!
I voted for this!!!
For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.So don’t claim you did not do anything wrong, please.
— Romans 13:3
All about the GO FUND ME!
They are staying with friends in Sinaloa while they make the repairs on THEIR HOME IN SINALOA! Something is wrong with this picture!
Yeah, you are.
Now this is something you could have fixed at any time in the past 20 years but for some reason you did not want to.
You liked being in the country illegally.
How do I know? Because you do not do something for 20 years that you dislike and are not gaining any benefit from.
What were those benefits?
I don't know.
I don't care.
But they were there.
So... bye.
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