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Calif. Woman Who Called 911 to Report Abuse Gets Reprieve from Deportation



(LOS ANGELES) -- Federal immigration officials have relented on deporting a Los Angeles woman who called 911 to report that her boyfriend was beating her up.

Isaura Garcia, 20, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, made the desperate call for help in February, according to her lawyer, Jennie Pasquarella of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Garcia, who has a year-old baby daughter, Stacy, had endured repeated beatings at the hands of her boyfriend Ricardo Leos, 19, also an illegal immigrant, according to Pasquarella. He is now in jail in Los Angeles on a vehicular manslaughter charge stemming from a fatal DUI in March, according to the Los Angeles sheriff's office.

Leos had kicked Garcia out the house, the lawyer said, but while he was at work she returned to the building, where her mother also lives, to see her baby.

While she was there, Leos came back and Garcia "panicked" and called 911, Pasquarella said. Police came, but when Leos alleged that his girlfriend was the batterer and showed a scratch on his neck, "they took the handcuffs off Ricardo and put them on Isaura and at that moment she fainted."

Garcia was taken to the hospital where a doctor found bruises on her body. Two days later, the police charges against Garcia were dismissed.

But her arrest triggered deportation procedures under the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Secure Communities program, which sends fingerprints of anyone arrested to the Department of Homeland Security for immigration checks.

After a press conference on the case Thursday, ICE backed down. "This action conforms with the policy (Immigration and Customs) is in the process of finalizing that would guide how the agency uses its prosecutorial discretion in removal cases involving the victims and witnesses of crime, including domestic violence," the agency said in a statement.

The Secure Communities program has sparked controversy in a number of U.S. states and cities. Illinois has pulled out, and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the American Immigration Lawyers Association have asked President Obama to suspend the initiative.

But immigration officials say the two-year-old program has led to the removal of 72,000 undocumented immigrants convicted of crimes, a third of whom committed violent offenses.


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Is she going to cooperate with welfare authorities and give them the guys name? SSI# The real or stolen one?

I can almost be sure they have an anchor or 3

These sob stories are getting stranger and more desperate every day.

The ones who bother me the most are the ones that call the police line or 911 and ask the call taker do you speak Spanish in perfect English. If the answer is no then they say why not? Well you should. Then they carry on and half the time they don't even have a reason to call police in the first place. When some of the staff get upset because they keepn on whining one of the black women will take the phone and say: "this is America we speak English here." What takes the cake is when they ask if the call taker speaks Spanish and then they are transferred to someone who does and they start speaking Spanish to them and they ask the person do you speak Spanish?
Then there are those who are supoosively calling for someone else and ask if they will be reported to ICE if they call police about a crime.

I say a bus ride to the border and a pair of boxing gloves for these two.

I don't want to pay her hospital bills nor for him to sit in jail and languish on my dime.

He is just going to get a jailhouse education on how to commit more crime.

Let them go home and sort it out.

The "Baby" doesn't need any more of my foodstamps either and sending them all home now saves how many thousands of dollars a year in teaching the little anchor how to speak English?

There is NO excuse for any law enforcement official to block any deportation of any illegal they come across........NONE.

What a F'ing MESS this shit is with illegal invaders in this country! DEPORT THEM ALL! I'm sick of this garbage!

Perfect candidate for the U visa. Why wasn't that mentioned in the article?

Originally Posted by Esq

Perfect candidate for the U visa. Why wasn't that mentioned in the article?

Originally Posted by Esq

Perfect candidate for the U visa. Why wasn't that mentioned in the article?

Who cares? However, if you're so concerned, perhaps you should call and ask the editor why it wasn't included.