Thread: Immigrant featured in article is arrested

Immigrant featured in article is arrested

December 19, 2006
BY ESTHER J. CEPEDA Staff Reporter
Martin Barrios, a 35-year-old factory worker who became a public face for the millions of illegal immigrants who, if deported, would have to leave their U.S.-born children behind, was arrested Friday morning.
According to a spokesperson from Centro Sin Fronteras, a local immigrant-rights group, Barrios was arrested at his Berwyn home about 6:30 a.m. Friday in his pajamas, as his wife and children watched.

Barrios brought the story of his struggle to stay in the United States to the Sun-Times in April. At that time, he had his hopes set on a bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Chicago) that would have kept him and 35 other Illinoisans with "mixed immigration status" in the U.S. The bill has not passed the House.

His wife, Araceli Barrios, declined comment Monday, citing her husband's loss of employment after being interviewed in the Sun-Times last April in an immigration story.


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But in April, Araceli Bar-rios had told the Sun-Times that if her husband was deported, she would move herself and her children to Los Angeles to live with her mother.
Barrios is ineligible for citizenship because he crossed the border illegally from his home state of Zacatecas, Mexico, 18 years ago, then fell prey to an immigration law scam artist who improperly filed his citizenship application.

Gail Montenegro, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman, said Barrios is being held at Dodge County Detention Facility in Juneau, Wis. pending a last-minute request from Chicago's Mexican Consulate to review his legal records for any basis for a final appeal.

However, Montenegro maintained Barrios has "exhausted all opportunities for appeals."

"From our standpoint, he's here in defiance of an outstanding deportation order," she said, while adding, "we have no confirmed departure dates."

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But in April, Araceli Bar-rios had told the Sun-Times that if her husband was deported, she would move herself and her children to Los Angeles to live with her mother.

Hmmm........I guess that shows how much she loves her husband. If she truely loved him, she and her children would catch the next Greyhound to Mexico! That is what I would do if my wife was an illegal and ended up in Mexico. Of course I'm forgetting one vital equation in the scheme of things and that is that her husband will undoubtedly find his way back to Los Angeles (illegally of course).

Build the darn fence and militarize the border immediately!

MW wrote:

If she truely loved him, she and her children would catch the next Greyhound to Mexico!

They are not about to leave their golden goose!!!

It is now evident these people care very little for each other. American families if one parent was deported would not give a minutes thought to staying in another country without their partner. the most important thing to these people is to be living in America, nothing compares to that not even children, husbands, and wives. we do not need these kind of people here in
Amreica.

There are a lot of sympathy type articles re the raid out now. But if a person commits a crime they face the penalty, that's what citizens have to do even if they have family.

This must be the bunch from the pallet company raids. This is when I first observed the news being manipulated and censored. An article came online in the early morning hours with quite a bit of detail. It told how ICE wouldn't release the arrestees names and that a local advocate named Lopez got everybody sprung. The article went on AP and was picked up by a few websites. A little later the article got a rewrite in CA and the original article came down. What was left was a couple of lines about the raid and a bunch of general info about ICE and Chertoff tough talk. The links to the articles were still on Google, but the articles were just gone.

There are a lot of sympathy type articles re the raid out now

I don't understand the sympathy for people who break our laws and harm our country. How about all of the people who lost their jobs so the illegals could get hired for less money? I don't see anyone crying for them.

I saw an immigrant who said these words
" a person has to do what he has to do" when asked if it was wrong to steal identities, first he said yes it is wrong, then he said no it is not wrong, they don't have any idea what misery they are causing legal Americans, even id they did they would not care because as he said a person does what he has to do regardless of who it may hurt, this is the kind of people who are coming to our land, no morals or self-responsibility to do the right thing.