Thread: AZ. mother faces deportation after immigration check-in

Valley mother faces deportation after immigration check-in

abc15.com staff
4:40 PM, Feb 8, 2017 30 mins ago

PHOENIX - Protests erupted in Phoenix Wednesday morning, when a Valley woman was ordered to be deported after showing up for a routine immigration check.

Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos was arrested in 2009 for impersonation as part of a Maricopa County Sheriff's Office raid. She was charged with a felony, but her attorneys say that raid was later ruled unconstitutional.

Court documents obtained by ABC15 also show Garcia had previously been ordered to self-deport.

Garcia reported for a regular check-in with Immigration Customs Enforcement Wednesday morning, but never came out.

According to Garcia's attorney, she is now facing deportation as part of President Trump's executive order focused on removing undocumented immigrants with a history of arrests.

Garcia's husband and teenage children joined protesters outside ICE headquarters, as the family now faces being separated.

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"I'd ask him 'why he would want to take her from me?' She hasn't done anything wrong and I'm not scared of him," said Garcia’s daughter Jaqueline, of what she would ask President Trump if she could.

Garcia's attorneys say they are trying to buy the Valley mother more time in the U.S., but no one knows for sure how that will work. Garcia is among, if not the first, Arizonan to be deported under the President's new executive order.

"It's extremely disappointing to walk in with a beautiful loving and caring human being like Guadalupe and not be able to walk out with her," said Ray Ybarra Maldonado, Garcia's attorney. "She is stronger than I am, when she heard she was going to be taken in, she took a deep breath asked what the next step that would happen and she went into custody."

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released the following statement in regards to Garcia's case:

Ms. Garcia De Rayos is currently being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) based on a removal order issued by the Department of Justice's Executive Office for Immigration Review which became final in May 2013. Relevant databases indicate Ms. Garcia De Rayos has a prior felony conviction dating from March 2009 for criminal impersonation.

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I don't get why these people are so surprised. They knew they broke the law when they entered the country without permission. Being caught is part of the risk they accepted coming here. I don't have sympathy.

OK...let's STOP with the tearry stories......She was supposed to self deport....she didn't.....the husband and daughter can go with her and "keep the family together"

Deport the whole family. Why aren't they deporting the whole family???!!! Get them all out of here.

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Her family can go home with her. No one is stopping them

She was ordered removed under Obama.

Ms. Garcia De Rayos is currently being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) based on a removal order issued by the Department of Justice's Executive Office for Immigration Review which became final in May 2013. Relevant databases indicate Ms. Garcia De Rayos has a prior felony conviction dating from March 2009 for criminal impersonation.

She was first caught in 2008. That was 9 years ago. So just move home, take your nice family with you, they have proms in Mexico, too.

Deport her. Enforce our Laws. The rest need to realize that they had better sell out, pack up and go back.

Many have relatives where they came from. Take your whole family, reunite with them and get on with your life on YOUR soil.

You can take the east way OUT of here or take the hard way OUT. Either way...you will be deported.

CNN Breaking News just said "She is in Mexico".

Guadalupe García de Rayos deported by ICE