Posted on 02/10/2017 6:02:40 AM PST by Dacula
More than two dozen protesters held a rally Thursday night in front of a federal building in downtown Austin after a woman contacted an Austin immigration support group and told them federal immigration officials had detained her husband during a traffic stop in Southeast Austin.
Reyna Alvarado said her husband, Francisco Alvarado, was pulled over by federal officials on Riverside Drive near Wickersham Lane around 8:30 a.m. Thursday.
He is currently detained, though she was unsure where, Reyna Alvarado said. He told her wife on the phone that he is likely to be deported, she said.
Immigration officials told her that her husband had not shown up to an immigration court in San Antonio, she said. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials could not be reached for comment Thursday night.
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The Alvarados came to Austin from Honduras 10 years ago, Reyna Alvarado said. Her husband, who is undocumented, does landscaping work.
This month, newly-elected Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez changed the county jail’s policy regarding federal agents’ requests to detain inmates suspected of being in the country illegally.
Since Hernandez’s policy began, several Austin immigration activist groups have been concerned that federal immigration agents will increase operations to seek out and deport undocumented immigrants in Austin.
Reyna Alvarado said through a translator that she and Francisco had fled Honduras with their daughter because the “Maras” — a gang that was born in the U.S. and now has a heavy presence in Central America — had killed several of her family members.
“What do I do now?” Reyna Alvarado said through a translator. “I had to go to school and tell my daughter that they’ve taken her father away.”
The group ICE Out of Austin gathered Thursday night in front of the J.J. “Jake” Pickle Federal Building, at 300 Eighth St., to protest Francisco Alvarado’s detention.
“Our community feels that we are under attack,” said Alejandro Caceres, who founded the group. “We don’t think that anyone should be deported.”
More mob rule.
So what. China is going to start finger printing all visitors.
Pack your bags and head back to Honduras.
What’s that you say? Our government is now faithfully executing the laws?? What an outrage!! Call the Ninth Circuit!
Wow...25 people....more line up at a taco truck.
Start the deportations immediately...
Find a translator to tell you this, lady: "Pack your bags and go with him."
Was it Joe Pesci in ‘Casino’ who said: ‘you better bring your own ******* army pal!’?
Illegals can be excused for thinking that the Obama years would last forever and that nothing would change but it should be obvious to them now that a) immigration enforcement was being actively suppressed and b) Trump isn’t having it.
So...they can trot out the rent a mob for the cameras now but when the enforcement actions begin in earnest they won’t have enough people to keep up.
Illegal, is illegal, is illegal.
Illegal aliens are criminals, as they are breaking the LAW.
Mobs’ opinions don’t override the LAW, and don’t count.
If mobs can override the LAW, then there can be no law.
So let me get this straight. A person can come here and live here for ten years, pay no taxes, get all the social service bennies, have his child in free schools, and then simply not show up at court when told to do so. Got it. He had a good ten years. He can go now. Ten years he could have applied for all sorts of legal status but probably didn’t want to pay $500 for an immigration lawyer. And btw, a good place to find lists of names of illegals are the car insurance companies that specialize in providing insurance to illegals. I’m serious.
These things happened under Obama, but the sob stories went unreported. Now every detained illegal alien sob story is placed above the fold on every MSM news outlet.
If she loves him, she’ll move back to Mexico with him.
Don’t forget, Mexico is an idyllic paradise. They built a wall to protect their precious country from an illegal alien invasion. So we should follow their lead.
Now let’s translate this to English:
Around 24 people held a rally Thursday night in front of a federal building in downtown Austin after the wife of an illegal alien contacted an Austin illegal alien support group and told them federal immigration officials had detained her husband during a traffic stop in Southeast Austin.
Immigration officials told her that her husband had not shown up to an immigration court in San Antonio, which he is legally obligated to do after he was caught being in the U.S. illegally the first time.
“What do I do now?” Reyna Alvarado said through a translator because she has not learned English herself . “I had to go to school and tell my daughter that they’ve taken her father away because he broke the law and has been caught.”
The group ICE Out of Austin, which oppose enforcement of immigration laws, gathered Thursday night in front of the J.J. “Jake” Pickle Federal Building, at 300 Eighth St., to protest Francisco Alvarado’s detention.
“Our community feels that we are under attack,” said Alejandro Caceres, who founded the group. “We don’t think that anyone should be deported because this nation has no right to say who can and cannot show up.”
Yep, my thought as well. Leave....
She’s been here TEN YEARS and needs a translator to convey her words????
No assimilation
President Trump and I want folks to come in LEGALLY and love America and ASSIMILATE by speaking English!
If you don’t show up to Court you get a order of removal in absentia. You have no right to go to court and can be deported immediately. Thousands of these guys floating around.
Those protesters had better be careful. It's a new day with "El Trump" as "Presidente". La Migra might just show up at that protest and round up some more illegals to join her husband in jail.
Only 23 people showed up? Pretty pathetic turn out for the Peoples Republic of Austin.
Is this the women Sean Hannity was talking about?
If so, she was an identity thief.
Not just SS #, which is crime in and of itself, but credit cards.
Yep. She and her daughter can turn themselves in and join illegal dad fro the trip.
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