Thread: Deportation of grandmother leaves a San Diego military family reeling

Deportation of grandmother leaves a San Diego military family reeling


Clarissa Arredondo of San Diego, shown with a granddaughter on a visit to Disneyland, was deported to
Mexico this week after living in the U.S. for more than 25 years. (Family photo)

March 4, 2017

A grandmother known as the “backbone” of a San Diego military veteran’s family was sent back to Mexico on Friday, more than two weeks after she was picked up by immigration agents outside her house in unmarked SUVs on Valentine’s Day.

Clarissa Arredondo, 43, is the mother of Adriana Aparicio, whose husband is a Navy veteran working as a contractor in Afghanistan. The couple has two daughters, 2 and 3, and Arredondo, who came to the U.S. more than 25 years ago, helped take care of them.

“We get together all the time,” Aparicio said. “We can just be hanging out at her house, singing and dancing with the girls. They love doing that with her. She does their manicures and pedicures. She just spoils them.”

Aparicio, 27, said officials told her family that her mother was an enforcement priority.

“They consider my mom as a criminal for lying on paperwork to get welfare,” Aparicio said, adding that officials said that happened more than a decade ago.

Arredondo’s case is one of many popping up around the nation as President Trump sets out to redirect immigration enforcement priorities from his predecessor’s choice to focus on immigrants who committed violent crimes.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not able to answer questions about Arredondo’s case. The San Diego Union-Tribune could not find any record of convictions for Arredondo in either federal or California state court record systems.

Aparicio had no recollection of her mother using welfare or getting in trouble for doing so. She remembered her mom working three jobs, cleaning hotels, houses and apartments to make ends meet.

“I had a happy childhood,” Aparicio said. “She made sure of that.”

When Aparicio was about a month old, Arredondo crossed into the U.S. from Mexico with Aparicio and Aparicio’s father. Arredondo was 16 years old.

“She was a child trying to make a way for her own child,” Aparicio said.

Arredondo left Aparicio’s father and raised their three children, Aparicio said. Her two brothers are U.S.-born.

“She’d take us to work sometimes when she didn’t have anyone to watch us,” Aparicio recalled. “She’s never given up.”

Aparicio’s husband, Bennie Hill, has worked as a contractor in Afghanistan since he ended his seven-year service with the Navy.

His mother, Lt. Col. Marie Pauley, is on active duty in the Army and has been deployed around the world. She said she appreciates Arredondo's role as the other grandmother in her grandchildren’s lives.

“Me being far away, she eases my heart,” Pauley said via telephone, speaking personally and not in an official Army capacity. “I haven’t been the good grandmother that can be there all the time. I’m trying to live through her.”

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...304-story.html

Well Stupid... it is a FELONY to lie on government forms to obtain something of value and/or government benefits which
you are not entitled to receive.

This is in fact a crime and your mother is a criminal.

Doesn't matter how long ago or how long she has evaded law enforcement because she is not
protected under any Statute of Limitations and she was deported accordingly.

Stop the stupid NAIVE GAME of playing dumb!

They make it sound like it is no big thing. Try it in Mexico and see what you get.

Oh yeah...a 43 YEAR OLD GRANDMOTHER! LOL milking off the US taxpayers.

She got welfare and how many anchor babies paid for out of OUR pockets! Glad you got to have a fun time an Disneyland!

NO ILLEGAL ALIENS IN OUR MILITARY! GO SERVE YOUR OWN COUNTRY.

Sorry, more fake news from the left wing idiots.

Clarissa Arredondo is not the grandmother of a military veteran family. She is the illegal alien mother of an illegal alien daughter who illegally crossed the border into the United States 26 years ago and lied on government forms to illegally obtain benefits to support her anchor babies for more than 2 decades.

We do not know who the husband is other than he is currently working as a private contractor in Afghanistan who supposedly was in Navy.

Originally Posted by lorrie

Sorry, more fake news from the left wing idiots.

Clarissa Arredondo is not the grandmother of a military veteran family. She is the illegal alien mother of an illegal alien daughter who illegally crossed the border into the United States 26 years ago and lied on government forms to illegally obtain benefits to support her anchor babies for more than 2 decades.

We do not know who the husband is other than he is currently working as a private contractor in Afghanistan who supposedly was in Navy.

No, that is not the illegal alien grandmother's husband, that is her illegal alien daughter's husband, his name sounds American. We don't know what happened to the illegal alien grandmother's husband, other than she left him a long time ago. He's an illegal alien too and probably still roaming around here, too.

Just another goofy sob story. She's from Mexico. If she'd gone home, she could have come back to visit probably as much as she wanted, she just can't reside and work here. Now she'll be deported and won't be able to come back, but they can do down and visit her.

I would like to know how much and how long she collected welfare.

It could add up to grand larceny.

Also, since the illegals use several names and usually have more than one set of ID's, could it be she received benefits under different names?

Bottom line, though. She came here illegally. She greatly benefited as did her children from being here.

She should just say 'Thank you, Americans', and return home.

Deported grandmother had immigration, criminal history (SDUT Front Page)