Posted on 06/19/2025 6:59:41 AM PDT by TheDon
A Mesa mom is back in Mexico just days after she was detained by federal immigration agents while on the job at a Valley restaurant.
She admits she was living in the U.S. without documentation but claims she is far from being the “dangerous criminals” the Trump administration said they are targeting.
Friday was like any other day for Karime Diaz, who was working her shift at Oregano’s in Mesa. That is until federal agents walked in.
“As I got in there after like half an hour maybe, FBI and ICE showed up to my work place,” she said.
Karime Diaz, a longtime Valley resident and mother of two, was the only worker detained. By Monday, she was gone.
“They didn’t explain anything. They didn’t give me time to get a lawyer, see a judge. Nothing at all. They took me into Florence to a detention center where they were not processing anybody. The officer over there told us that they’re taking from 2,000 to 3,000 people a day,” she explained.
Diaz admits she crossed the border without papers 24 years ago. She says this isn’t the first time something like this has happened. She was taken into custody during a workplace raid when then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio was conducting sweeps across Maricopa County.
“When I had that issue with the immigration, I paid a bond of $8,000 and then I paid $600 per year to get my work permit. I paid $8,000 for my lawyer,” she said.
Her work permit was later revoked during Trump’s first term when the president took several actions that affected work visas and implemented stricter immigration policies to prioritize U.S. workers.
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We already monetize the legals with all the application fees and such to do it legally.
Monetizing the illegals would basically be - go home, apply the right way, and then we’ll let you come back....which is what we are trying to do....so yeah.
> Can’t we MONETIZE the illegals?
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> $10,000.00 to stay. Rigorous review of SS# and other personal records. ONE year to become a citizen.
It takes 6-16+ years and a lot more money for a STEM PhD to become a US citizen. Why should we give preferential treatment to “Mesa Moms” ?
Self deportation is how it gets done.
Aggressive enforcement of immigration laws is the motivation.
Rent should decline.
“I know plenty of first, third, or 20th generation Hispanics in West Texas that can’t stand illegals.”
Good Americans indeed!
Free Republic ya come for the news, but stay for the comments. 😆
24 years - a long time! This woman had 24 years to apply for a green card or naturalization or a work visa.
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I’m acquainted with someone like that who was brought here as a child. I once told her she should apply for citizenship, but she replied why should she apply for citizenship when she gets the same benefits? What could I have said to that?
I doubt they randomly picked her out
School is out; who were the kids staying with, while their mom was at work?
When you sneak into the US, you are entitled to ????
No. They must go.
They learn it from Telemundo.
Thank God you stayed here to help us all get an edgeemeecation? Maybe I should have used the word “dramatically”?
What say you?
Illegal gets deported…
How is this news?!?
It’s not, it’s an attempt to manipulate people nothing more.
You’re welcome. I’m pleased to have helped you learn something.
“Exponentially” actually has a specific meaning (that graph indicates what it means); people who mistakenly use it as a synonym for “dramatically” or “greatly” simply appear ignorant. You don’t want to appear (or be) ignorant, do you?
I wish we DID have exponential growth in self-deportations. For a few days, anyway. After a few days of that, there would be a dramatic drop-off in self-deportations, as the supply of illegal aliens would be reduced to zero.
In any case, I wish you the best. I believe we’re in agreement that all illegal aliens need to either remove themselves, or be removed, from this Great Republic.
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