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First came the immigration agents, then came the text. A Pomona family’s day turns into a nightmare
The Orange County Register ^ | June 24, 2025 | Ryan Carter

Posted on 06/25/2025 4:31:29 AM PDT by TheDon

It took one text message to turn Maria Murillo’s world upside down.

It was from her husband, a gardener on a landscaping job on a balmy weekday morning in La Mirada, she said.

“I’m (expletive)ed…,” it read, but in Spanish.

A video from the scene that June 18 morning showed why, according to the family.

It appears to show federal agents parked curbside in a blue SUV, alongside a La Mirada sidewalk.

Moments later, the video showed what appears to be two agents escorting a man to a vehicle.

“Excuse me, but what’s your name, so your family can know,” someone, a civilian, asked the detained man.

“Jose Luis Zavala,” he said, before being placed inside the SUV and taken away.

It was a scene not unlike many unfolding in the hundreds of federal immigration sweeps across L.A. County in recent weeks as part of the the Trump administration’s massive immigration crackdown.

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Murillo acknowledged that back in the early 2000s, her husband initially crossed illegally. She also acknowledged he once had a DUI on his record, back in 2005. But even with “some” traffic infractions and the DUI, her husband was not the “worst of the worst” that the Trump administration has pledged to deport, Murillo said.

She and Gordo added that he was in the process of getting his green card — a process that required a fingerprinting process that he was going through.

“We had started the process, because we wanted to do the things right.”

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(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; apologism; california; ohthedrama; raids
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More ICE please!
1 posted on 06/25/2025 4:31:29 AM PDT by TheDon
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To: TheDon

THEY STARTED THE PROCESS: ABOUT 25 years too late.

CRY ME A RIVER.

HIS DRIVING RECORD EXPLAINS WHY OUR UNINSURED MOTORIST COVERAGE IS SO SKY HIGH, ALSO.

DUI-—DUI-—DUI


2 posted on 06/25/2025 4:36:22 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: TheDon

Yes! Just imagine how this kind of action can build up the self-deportation numbers as a side effect.


3 posted on 06/25/2025 4:37:16 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: TheDon

Why no profiling of the nightmares of the families of murder victims of the illegals???


4 posted on 06/25/2025 4:37:19 AM PDT by odawg
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To: TheDon

“we wanted to do the things right.”

SUUUURE ya did.


5 posted on 06/25/2025 4:38:32 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: TheDon

They seem like such a nice couple if only they had stayed where they came from they would be trouble Free.


6 posted on 06/25/2025 4:39:40 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: TheDon

“’I’m (expletive)ed…,’ it read, but in Spanish.”

If you don’t have the courtesy to curse in English, we don’t want you here.


7 posted on 06/25/2025 4:41:29 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: TheDon

Why are we allowing illegals go through the process to get a green card? That is pure amnesty.


8 posted on 06/25/2025 4:45:51 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: TheDon

News:

Man’s day interrupted as he’s arrested for doing illegal things - OMG!


9 posted on 06/25/2025 4:48:18 AM PDT by Mlheureux
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To: TheDon

Finger prints take a one time visit of 30 minutes.


10 posted on 06/25/2025 4:50:14 AM PDT by Mlheureux
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To: TheDon
Murillo acknowledged that back in the early 2000s, her husband initially crossed illegally.

Then he had 20 years to get himself legal. If he would have tried to get his green card under Bush, Obama or Biden, he would have gotten it even though he crossed illegally. But he was happy to do nothing until the heat was on with Trump.

11 posted on 06/25/2025 4:53:19 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Allow me: “Yo soy escrewdo.” (I should work for the U.N. ... at least until that whole lot are deported.)


12 posted on 06/25/2025 4:53:21 AM PDT by glennaro (2025: The year of America's rebirth as a Great (and Free) Republic)
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To: TheDon

I don’t know for sure but my guess is that if a non citizen gets a DUI in
Mexico - there would be hell to pay.


13 posted on 06/25/2025 4:59:32 AM PDT by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet)
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Honestly, Maria. You’re probably better off going back to Mexico with your deported husband than living under the insanely liberal policies in California.


14 posted on 06/25/2025 5:00:22 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: ridesthemiles

A woman going to work on a motorbike was recently killed near men. An illegal in a work van ran a red-light and slammed into her. I passed by when they were cleaning up the wreckage.

They don’t know our laws, don’t care to, can’t read the traffic signs and hate us. We are only here to steal from.


15 posted on 06/25/2025 5:03:46 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: ridesthemiles
He had diabetes, a heart condition, he was kept in a dimly lit cell behind, a heavy locked door, with federal troops guarding the door. ( they missed the heavy shackles and the 3x day torture sessions )

talk about lopsided writing. He was a shining family man, locked behind a heavy door, with federal guards ( what? Seal team 6 wasnt avaliable? Sheese

he also admitted a dui and a " few " traffic violations.

No mention of why he was let go from his forklift job. The owner didn't want uninsurable illegals working for him??

go write a horror story. Or stick to the facts without all the unnecessary negative adjectives and hyperbole.

16 posted on 06/25/2025 5:04:20 AM PDT by Ikeon (5,365 times,I've already told ya. YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID)
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To: TheDon

New day, new sob story. Did I get In before the creepers who believe laws should only apply to those without an extenuating circumstance?


17 posted on 06/25/2025 5:07:36 AM PDT by Yogafist
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To: ridesthemiles
I've heard too many stories of innocents killed at the hands of drunk drivers. The innocents die, and the guilty live somehow.

18 posted on 06/25/2025 5:09:06 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: TheDon

Zero f***s given, they all gotta go


19 posted on 06/25/2025 5:09:13 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: TheDon

I wonder how many kids they had that the taxpayers had to cover the expenses incurred?


20 posted on 06/25/2025 5:09:50 AM PDT by Dacula
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