'You’re just there, trapped': Why one Mexican woman decided to 'self-deport,' long before Trump

Los Angeles Times ^ | 29 May 2017 | Alene Tchekmedyian

[posterchild]

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.
Being 'worried' sounds like she attempted all of those. Did she really have no id???? Not even her passport or Mexican voter ID (with thumbprint) or a drivers license from the Mexican state she hails from? Did airlines let her on with no ID?

I've traveled within the US with several foreign nationals including Mexicanas and they all had some form of useful ID.

[higgmeister]

Wouldn’t grieta work better than partio?

[Darksheare]

“Anything that required an ID, which she didn’t have because she was in the country illegally.”

And that’s why the Democrats oppose voter ID laws as supposedly impacting the supposed “poor”.
Voter ID laws would catch many of these illegals voting.
They are the “poor” that the Democrats are so concerned with voting.

[Repeal The 17th]

¡Adiós! Y no dejes que la puerta te golpee donde el buen Señor te parta.

[posterchild]

I’ve known a (marxist) illegal alien who claimed to vote. At least he didn’t demand the ballot be in his native language (gaelic).

[BestPresidentEver]

Canada pays illegals to voluntarily return home. If we did that they would just hop back in to get paid again. Once the wall is built we need to do what Canada does, free airfare home and $2,000 to leave.

[posterchild]

I wonder how many business models are based on such government largess.

[Lurkinanloomin]

We need to do everything we can to make it IMPOSSIBLE to be an illegal alien in the USA.

Other countries do it, we should too.

First thing we need to do is remove all elected officials that hold out amnesty as an enticement.

Alexander, Corker, Flake, Graham, Hatch, Heller, Hoeven, Murkowsky, McCain, Rubio, Burr, Tillis, Portman, McConnell, Thune, Cornyn, Cochran, Isackson, Blunt, Johnson, Gardner, Toomey, Capito, Fischer, Collins, Wicker, Sasse are all Cheap Labor Express Republicans.

[Old Grumpy]

One down, several million to go . . .

[holyscroller]

My daughter was an inspector at San Ysidro in 1999 and darned few snuck past her !!!!

[Darksheare]

Yikes.

[conservativeimage]

If latimes thinks I’m going to feel guilty over this woman’s anxiety about her crime, they’re dead wrong. This story makes me smile, even giggle a little.

[4Liberty]

Who “trapped” her, exactly?........

[Pelham]

I saw self deportation happen a few times.

But once illegals figured out that Bush Republicans and Clinton/Obama Democrats were on their side and not on the side of Americans they flooded in in even bigger numbers, guessing correctly that treasonous Dubya and Obama would try to reward them with another amnesty.

[posterchild]

During the 2003 Iraq war he only trusted Al Jazeera for news.

[jmacusa]

Adios cabrona!

[jmacusa]

Si amigo! Yo dice “Adios cabrona!’’

[Balding_Eagle]

To my surprise, it’s a more or less rational story about a rational person.

[TBP]

I wish more illegals would follow her example.

[TBP]

We need a national policy that illegals get NO benefits of any kind, and take away the courts’ ability to rule on it.

We need to up the penalty for hiring illegals to include jail time.