Posted on 01/05/2020 4:16:03 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
It has been an emotional start to the new year for Rocio Rebollar Gomez and her family.
On Thursday, after 31 years in the United States, a country where she had built a life and raised three children, including a son now in the United States Army, Ms. Gomez was deported to Tijuana, Mexico, where she had little family left.
That son, Second Lt. Gibram Cruz, 30, who has been in the Army for five years and rushed to be with her the day after Christmas, said he was “shocked” at the way his mother was treated and called the actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement “completely inhumane.”
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That there needs to be a remedy for just this type of instance may be true...um.. does it escape everyone that she has been avoiding our legal system far longer than he has been in the service. could his service be just another attempt to legitimize her staying in the US illegally?
And this officer is decrying the enforcement of US law, which is in violation of his oath as a commissioned officer of the US Army. Never mind his own now-questionable status as a citizen.
“I didn’t know that it could be so hard if you were married to a citizen.”
As I said in my initial post: “There needs to be a trusted sponsor option. “
There is no expedited option for those trying to things legally, they put you in the queue with all the illegals. When I started USCIS was saying 5 months, we are now at 13 months because of the border invasion.
With all due respect, that appears to be an apples-oranges comparison.
I’ll have to look at this but seems to me I had to tell the military where and when my parents were born. I remember OSI doing a rudimentary security clearance
Have you considered any other visa options, than the spouse visa?
Maybe I missed it, but how does a dreamer/anchor type baby become a US military officer? Is he a legit us citizen? Not by any stretch of the 10th amendment in my mind.
Yes, I am a native and natural born us army officer....
“ Maybe I missed it, but how does a dreamer/anchor type baby become a US military officer?”
I hope someone’s asking his recruiter some questions. And the OSI guys who cleared him
thanx...that makes her a 4-time felon...illegal re-entry is a felony
“I didn’t know that it could be so hard if you were married to a citizen.”
My GF, fiancé, wife was denied 3 tourist visas in 2008/9/10 and a fiancé’ visa in 2011. So I said F@@k it, quit work and moved to Thailand. Note all this cost thousands of dollars. We had a daughter in 2013 and decided to try for again for a tourist visa in 2017, and finally got a 10 year multi-entry tourist visa (which is all we wanted in 2008).
Came to the US and decided out daughter needed to educated in the USA, put her in K in 2018 leaving every 6 months to keep the wife’s visa valid.
Started in Dec 2018 for a sponsor visa, USCIS said 5 months, after 13 months still no joy. But it is possibly soon, which means less than 6 months in USCIS counting.
Five years as a second lieutenant?.....I dunno. Back in the70’s they’d have said “Thanks for what little service you gave us but you are gone”.
He may have been enlisted. I doubt it.
This guy swore to defend the Constitution. He does not care about tge law or the sovereignty of the US.
This story stinks to high Heaven.
She’s been deported multiple times and the son joined the army only to try and keep his mother from being deported.
My point was simply that there are something like 185 different types of visas into the US.
Perhaps widen your search?
A 2nd lt for 5 years?
Nope....have the family papers....On marriage licenses you did.
You don’t just become an Army Lieutenant by enlisting, you have to have some fortitude, education, drive, and determination. That should count for something, but does not in the immigration process.
“ Nope....have the family papers....On marriage licenses”
Would you care to go out on a limb and say this second lieutenant does not care about his oath, to protect and defend the constitution. For instance, respecting the law?
Nothing is easy. After 9 months they approved my sponsorship. Then she had to apply to immigrate under that sponsorship, we are 4 months into that.
There is no expedited process, she is in the same queue as illegals, which is crap.
Assuming the son is a citizen, he could have sponsored his parents. I think the fly in the ointment is that being here illegally messes up that process. If she had stayed in Mexico in 2009, and followed the rules, she could have been legal by now. I guess the problem is that they think the laws don’t apply to them. And we’re supposed to weep for this story?
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