Posted on 06/01/2017 4:23:31 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
Any time a cop passed her on the road, she began shaking. When police set up checkpoints in her neighborhood, her phone buzzed with warning text messages.
She worried about getting carded at bars. Boarding planes. Attending college. Anything that required an ID, which she didnt have because she was in the country illegally.
For a decade, Paula Flores Colorado felt crippled by a gnawing fear that eventually became unbearable.
To find peace, she returned to Mexico in 2009.
Some of President Trumps immigration advisors during and after his campaign, including Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and now-Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions, called publicly for immigration enforcement strategies so tough that they encourage those in the country illegally to self-deport.
The idea of spurring immigrants to leave on their own volition by making life uncomfortable for them dates to at least the 1990s, when conservatives waged a bitter anti-illegal immigration campaign. The effort climaxed in 1994 when California voters approved Proposition 187, which aimed to deny services to those in the country illegally.
Courts struck down most of the measures provisions, and the notion of self-deportation quietly died away. It arose again in 2012, when Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney floated the idea when asked about illegal immigration.
The answer is self-deportation, Romney said. Which is people decide they can do better by going home because they can't find work here, because they don't have legal documentation to allow them to work here.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Cry me a river.
How would Mexico treat an illegal American in their territory?
The horrors...
“To find peace, she returned to Mexico in 2009.”
She wasn’t the only person to consider leaving the United States after the 2008 presidential election.
And the next eight years were bleak, indeed.
Wish more would follow his/her lead.
Um, yes...lawbreakers should be sweating it out and hitting the dusty road. No more of this brazen “I’m illegal and I’m here to stay!” crap.
Adios, far be it from us to “trap” anybody.
No more voting in our elections.
Vamonos.
Vamonos.
Va-moose!
Get out of the country CRIMINAL
Adios! Y no deja que la puerta te golpee donde el buen Senor te partio
Gee, kids, I’m 63 years old. Considering retiring to Thailand with my wife (Thai citizen) of 40 years. But they make it a bit difficult. Sure, you have to have money. Proven income each month and/or $$$ in the bank. Then you have to report your whereabouts about every 90 days. Move without reporting and you are screwed. Visa terms and duration vary with the type of visa.
We are fools here to just let anyone and everyone run amok. Yes, we can readily become a third-world country if we insist on it. I would not recommend it based on experience.
O, lo siento.
I love a story with a happy ending.
I will give the L.A. Times some credit for going to Tijuana and interviewing her there. You don’t meet any self deported Mexicans in Los Angeles, but there are plenty of them in Tijuana. This one does have a few holes in her story. She claims that she walked through the San Ysidro port of entry in 1999 and none of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents asked her for any kind of identification. That part is B.S. She paid a smuggler.
I'm sure she wasn't trembling in fear while he voted.
UMOH THAT EEEVIL TRUMP AND THEM EEEEVIL RETHUGLICANS!!!
Oh wait. This was 2009. obozo and pelosi were in charge of EVERYTHING.
So why is the slimes running this story NOW? Is it b/c they dated not post against Dear Leader when this was actually HAPPENING?
IOW (wait for it):
Fake news!!!!
¡Muy Bein Dicho!
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