Posted on 01/27/2018 7:34:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
LOS ANGELES – Family members are worried about the possible deportation of a 30-year-old father of two who was recently detained by ICE after living in the U.S. since being brought here when he was a toddler.
"ICE is abusing their power. They're doing this all across the nation," Roman Maury said outside a court hearing for Torres on Thursday. " He wasn't doing anything wrong. ... He was dropping his kids off at school."
ICE spokeswoman Lori Haley said Torres was targeted for arrest by deportation officers with ICE's Los Angeles-based fugitive operations team. All ICE arrests are "targeted" and never "random," Haley said.
Haley said in the ICE statement that Torres' criminal history includes DUI and felony narcotics possession.
But Roman Maury said Torres has "a few misdemeanors" and no felony record.
Advocates for Torres say he poses no threat or harm to the community, and Roman Maury said her client has learned from past criminal convictions, which she painted as mistakes of youth.
Torres is the father of a 3- and 7-year-old, and has been living in the U.S. since he was brought here by his grandmother. He hardly speaks any Spanish and has no family in Mexico, Arellano said. He works as a manager at a solar panel company in Chatsworth and is a youth football coach.
(Excerpt) Read more at wgntv.com ...
Gee I must be a heartless...
Age of 2 ???
What was he doing age of 18 ???
Did he run back down to Mexico then because he was now an illegal alien in his own right and was breaking the IMMIGRATION laws of another country ???
Its possible he didn’t know his North form South at age 2...but were there no Rand McNally’s in his local WalMart at age 18 ???
Heartless hussy, am I...
Brought here by his old grannie who only spoke Spanish and probably lived in a Spanish neighborhood but he never heard or learnt it himself...don’t be daft...
How brought him up ??? ...the pixies ???
Told ya I was heartless...
So he has a few “past criminal convictions”...that can happen to any illegal alien...of course an IMMIGRANT would be barred from IMMIGRATING or would be deported but hes not an IMMIGRANT and anyhoo hes special...how special ??? Ask Jebbie...
Told ya I was heartless...Jebbie agrees...
But then I’m an IMIGRANT and ya all know how heartless we “anti-IMMIGRATION” crowd can be about the po wee illegal aliens...oh dear there I go again...
I meant the undocumented -—— of course...
But my heartless IMMIGRANT tongue does insist on calling this po wee fellow an illegal alien...
Maybe he should have come to the U.S. legally. Have him take it up with his biological parental units.
Well, he couldn't just walk back across the border into Mexico without any proof of Mexican citizenship. They SHOOT YOU for doing that.
Thing is - he knew he was in the country illegally and should have done something to gain citizenship one way or other.
Buh bye! Oh wait, haste LA vista. :-)
It’s too bad he doesn’t have any family in Mexico. I have an idea, deport all those family members who are here illegally. I’m sure that he would then have plenty of family in Mexico.
“He wasn’t doing anything wrong. ... He was dropping his kids off at school.””
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“Haley said in the ICE statement that Torres’ criminal history includes DUI and felony narcotics possession.”
Oops
What would happen to any illegal in Mexico that did EXACTLY the same thing?
An American man that misses a child support payment because he’s out of work gets treated worse than an illegal alien that will march around and say that they dont give a flip about the law.
Bank robber with beautiful wife left alone at home forced to endure decades in jail!
Murderer separated from three darling young children due to his crimes!
Shoplifter with kidney disease held for hours in back of store while awaiting arrest!
Loving mother parked in red zone, now must endure $300 in fines!
Down With Consequences!
Trump offered a deal that would prevent this, but the Dems flatly refused.
It serves as a nice warning to anyone else thinking that the law wont catch up to them.
Do you have information independent of or different to the facts in the linked story? The article says a traffic stop. Nothing about checkpoints nor military garb was mentioned.
The lawyer/advocate and his sister are the ones giving a sob story about the school run. You’ll forgive me if I don’t accept their version at face value. He also had a police record. The lawyer is trying the case in the press as usual. I don’t see where anything occurred on school property. Moreover, the police and/or ICE can’t read minds to determine a driver’s planned next stop.
YAY!
Exactly! Deport!
Even if he’s deported, he’ll be back in 7-10 days.
Is he an example of a #DACA kid?
That’s right. 20 years ago I use to work in Greenpoint Brooklyn New york city for a spring water company, we had a lot of low income black employees and illegals and cops every so often would march into our warehouse and arrest one of the black employees right on the spot because he was behind child support payments meanwhile the illegals working there were untouched. That goes on all the time to this day, and the media will never ever ever show that. I wish blacks would wake the hell up to that, especially after Obama who was more concerned with illegals than blacks. I think they are waking up though to the con of the Democrats by seeing how well Trump is improving job prospects
Trump has said that the deportations will traget criminal offenders.
This guy fits.
Bye.
Oh gee. Really? Well since you did zero effort to get your citizenship after all these years - bye. 100% on you.
Has this ungrateful individual ever expressed appreciation for being allowed to enjoy the benefits of living in this country for 28 years without invitation or authorization or does he just complain about not being given more underserved benefits. Deport him and charge his grandmother with child abuse for involving a 2 year old child in her crime.
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