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Families, businesses face financial pain after immigration raid in rural Missouri
Columbia Missourian ^ | 4/7/26 | Cristal Sanchez

Posted on 04/07/2026 7:38:44 AM PDT by Controlling Legal Authority

Martin-Chavez’s wife started to worry at a little past 7 in the morni. Chavez usually arrives home at 7:15 for breakfast after he drops off their children at Milan Elementary. But Chavez never returned home that day.

The Guatemala native was one of three people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Feb. 24 in Milan, a town of about 1,800 people in north-central Missouri.

As soon as her children’s passports come in, Chavez’s wife said, she will leave for Guatemala to reunite with her husband, who was deported there.

(Excerpt) Read more at columbiamissourian.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: china; deportation; guatemalans; ham; hams; immigrants; smithfeildhams; smithfield

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See, a happy ending after all.
1 posted on 04/07/2026 7:38:44 AM PDT by Controlling Legal Authority
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To: Controlling Legal Authority

That worked!!


2 posted on 04/07/2026 7:40:18 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Good. Go back to Guatemala and make it great again.


3 posted on 04/07/2026 7:41:26 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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“As soon as her children’s passports come in”

Does it make sense that illegal aliens get to decide who the citizens of the United States will be?

Membership in the club is supposed to be by common consent of the current club members. Trespassers aren’t supposed to have that privilege.


4 posted on 04/07/2026 7:42:04 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Controlling Legal Authority

Winning


5 posted on 04/07/2026 7:42:50 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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Chavez’s wife — who asked not to be identified by name for this story — has not seen her husband since.

Chavez’s wife is expecting the couple’s fourth child. She has been feeling sick, but it has been hard for her to attend her prenatal visits because her husband was the family’s only driver. He also was the lone breadwinner.

Tells you all you need to know. She’s illegal too and they are collecting every benefit available for their 3 American born children and we’re paying for the 4th one. They all do it.


6 posted on 04/07/2026 7:44:00 AM PDT by sheana
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Had they left on their own, they would have had the oppotrtunity to rteturn, and this time arrive in this nation,legally. They chose poorly, because they believed that they would win (remain) with the help of the Democrats.


7 posted on 04/07/2026 7:45:57 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Chavez’s wife said, she will leave for Guatemala to reunite with her husband, who was deported there.

Good.

How much did her illegal stay cost American tax payers?

8 posted on 04/07/2026 7:50:57 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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Good. Now they need to pick up the ones around here, they are stealing work from teens and Mennonites.
9 posted on 04/07/2026 7:53:25 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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Gosh why was he detained and deported? Could it be that he and they illegally invaded this country and have no right to be here?


10 posted on 04/07/2026 7:56:12 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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SMITHFIELD MEAT PLANT THERE-—OWNED BY THE CHINESE, IIRC

SMALL TOWN==40% HISPANIC


11 posted on 04/07/2026 7:56:26 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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Sounds like a perfect place for an ICE raid.


12 posted on 04/07/2026 8:00:37 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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Always meat packers and illegals.


13 posted on 04/07/2026 8:17:17 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: Controlling Legal Authority

Don’t let the doorknob hit you!


14 posted on 04/07/2026 8:27:06 AM PDT by TonyM (Score Event)
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So, they’re all going to be together in the country of their origin. As it should be.


15 posted on 04/07/2026 8:27:41 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: TTFlyer

My thoughts exactly.


16 posted on 04/07/2026 8:28:42 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: gibsonguy

May it continue.


17 posted on 04/07/2026 8:29:02 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Robert DeLong

Had they left on their own Mom and Day could each have collected $3,000 and a free ticket home.


18 posted on 04/07/2026 8:29:27 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Good. Go back to Guatemala and make it great again.

I know an owner of a food processing company in Guatemala. He said that due to the Biden open-borders, they lost so many workers, they had to cut their production in half.

His comment was, for a young worker in Guatemala, a free vacation in the USA, paid for by US welfare, and where they could hang-out and party with their friends and cousins in whatever US city they had connections, was preferable to having a job in Guatemala.

He said thanks to Trump, their production has been able to return to normal

19 posted on 04/07/2026 8:29:36 AM PDT by PGR88
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Good ….there should be financial pain. I’ve paid more than my fair share in taxes.


20 posted on 04/07/2026 8:32:06 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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