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'You’re just there, trapped': Why one Mexican woman decided to 'self-deport,' long before Trump
Los Angeles Times ^ | 29 May 2017 | Alene Tchekmedyian

Posted on 06/01/2017 4:23:31 PM PDT by COBOL2Java

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1 posted on 06/01/2017 4:23:31 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
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Cry me a river.

How would Mexico treat an illegal American in their territory?


2 posted on 06/01/2017 4:29:00 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: COBOL2Java

The horrors...

3 posted on 06/01/2017 4:29:21 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (May the Covfefe be with you...)
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To: COBOL2Java

“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.


4 posted on 06/01/2017 4:30:32 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: COBOL2Java

Wish more would follow his/her lead.


5 posted on 06/01/2017 4:31:08 PM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: COBOL2Java

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.


6 posted on 06/01/2017 4:31:55 PM PDT by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Adios, far be it from us to “trap” anybody.


7 posted on 06/01/2017 4:33:23 PM PDT by GnuThere
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No more voting in our elections.


8 posted on 06/01/2017 4:34:08 PM PDT by donna (There are now roughly 3,200 mosques in America, nearly three times as many as there were in 2000.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Vamonos.


9 posted on 06/01/2017 4:35:02 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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Vamonos.


10 posted on 06/01/2017 4:35:08 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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Va-moose!


11 posted on 06/01/2017 4:36:30 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: COBOL2Java

Get out of the country CRIMINAL


12 posted on 06/01/2017 4:38:33 PM PDT by PGalt
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Adios! Y no deja que la puerta te golpee donde el buen Senor te partio


13 posted on 06/01/2017 4:44:16 PM PDT by fr_freak
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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.


14 posted on 06/01/2017 4:45:22 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: COBOL2Java

O, lo siento.


15 posted on 06/01/2017 4:45:39 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning.)
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To: COBOL2Java

I love a story with a happy ending.


16 posted on 06/01/2017 4:49:17 PM PDT by pfflier
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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.


17 posted on 06/01/2017 4:54:39 PM PDT by forgotten man
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She worried about getting carded at bars. Boarding planes. Attending college. Anything that required an ID, which she didn’t have because she was in the country illegally.

I'm sure she wasn't trembling in fear while he voted.

18 posted on 06/01/2017 4:54:48 PM PDT by seowulf
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To: COBOL2Java

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!!!!


19 posted on 06/01/2017 4:55:54 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
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¡Muy Bein Dicho!


20 posted on 06/01/2017 4:58:51 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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