Thread: Mom Deported; Fairfield County Family Feels 'Ripped Apart'

H2 Note: Another propaganda amnesty hit piece trying to make Americans sympathetic to illegal aliens invading the United States illegally, and churning out disinformation about the highly effective Secure Communities Program ..

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Mom Deported; Fairfield County Family Feels 'Ripped Apart'

thedailyfairfield.com


Rony Molina, right, with sons, Ronald, 8, center, and Alex, 11, look sadly at photo of wife and mom, Sandra, who was deported in November 2010 to her hometown in Guatemala.

FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. – Ronald Molina, 8, his 11-year-old brother Alex and 19-year-old-sister Evelin say they cry quietly every day in their Stamford home while looking at a photograph of their mother.

In the photo, the dark-haired woman with downcast eyes looks back at them with as much sadness as is felt by the family she was forced to leave. Her children, along with her husband, Rony Molina, are U.S. citizens. But Sandra Payes-Chacon was detained and deported in 2010 while in her native Guatemala trying to obtain a green card.

Now, the 35-year-old who suffers from depression and anxiety is banned from returning to the United States for 10 years.

Advocates and attorneys for immigration reform say a national program called Secure Communities, which was launched in Fairfield County last year and recently expanded to cover the entire state, will make stories such as this one far more common.

“Families are being torn apart and with expansion of the Secure Communities program we are going to see much more of this - lives ruined because of technicalities and overzealous immigration police enforcement,” said Alex Meyerovich, an immigration attorney at M.C. Law Group LLP in Bridgeport and Norwalk.

Meyerovich, who represents the Molina family, said, “Many of my clients are scared of the local police, who under the guise of these programs, arrest them for federal Immigration Customs Enforcement police. When they run a fingerprints check and discover a person is in the country illegally, that’s it. They are deported.”

Payes-Chacon, however, was not deported under the Secure Communities program. She made the mistake of taking bad advice from a former adviser and returned to her homeland after crossing the border illegally. But Meyerovich said many people. including his clients, are afraid of the program.

“It’s one more piece of ammunition added to the completely random and arbitrary process used to deport (illegal) immigrants,” he said.

Rony Molina, 43, who also made a dangerous and costly three-day trek crossing the desert from Mexico in 1999, sat this week at a kitchen table in his small but immaculate Cold Spring Road home, shaking his head and tearing up as he described what it’s like to be separated from his wife.

The couple met in Connecticut but did not know each other despite growing up in the same rural community outside Guatemala City.

“There are no words to describe our suffering,” said Molina, owner of Every Season Landscaping and Rony’s Painting. “I take care of the children and do everything I can for them, but I have a full-time business to run and they are alone after school.”

Human traffickers called coyotes can charge up to $20,000 to sneak immigrants into the county. Both Molina and his future wife came to America to escape the daily gang violence and lack of work in their homeland, he said. His two sons were born here and he adopted their half-sister Evelin, who came to the United States a few years ago.

“My boys need their mother. This is not a way to live,” Rony Molina said. The brothers visit their mother during summer vacation, and their father tries to fly there every few months for about a week.

“It’s sad knowing when I come home from school she won’t be here,” said Alex, an eighth-grader at Cloonan Middle School.

Evelin Molina, a senior at Westhill High School, said she was “devastated” by her mother’s deportation.

“My whole life I lived with my grandmother, but looked forward to being with my mother and my brothers,” she said. “We were together for a couple of years, then this happened. It’s a living nightmare.”

Payes-Chacon requested humanitarian parole because of the physical and emotional illnesses she suffers. It was denied in September by the Department of Homeland Security.

“Parole is an extraordinary measure used sparingly and only in urgent and emergency circumstances,” Gina Holland, chief of law enforcement for Homeland Security investigations, said in a Sept. 15 letter denying the application.

Now, Rony Molina will have to make what he calls “an impossible decision."

“Either we stay here and wait 10 years to be reunited as a family,” he said. “Or we go back and be together, but have no future and expose my kids to the kind of gang violence that resulted in their uncle being kidnapped last year and held for a $25,000 ransom. It’s a terrible decision to have to make.”

This is the first in a two-part series about the plight of illegal immigrants in Fairfield County and increased efforts to deport them.

source: Mom Deported; Fairfield County Family Feels 'Ripped Apart'

“Families are being torn apart and with expansion of the Secure Communities program we are going to see much more of this - lives ruined because of technicalities and overzealous immigration police enforcement,”

No, lives are NOT ruined because of technicalities and overzelous immigration police enforcement, they are ruined because illegals think they can ignore the laws of the country they come to. Families are torn apart because of decisions they make. I wouldn't in my wildest dreams go to another country and expect to live there without the proper papers. Common sense.

“Either we stay here and wait 10 years to be reunited as a family,” he said. “Or we go back and be together, but have no future and expose my kids to the kind of gang violence that resulted in their uncle being kidnapped last year and held for a $25,000 ransom. It’s a terrible decision to have to make.”

I realize that some of these stories are true, yet I can't help wondering how many illegals are lying just get sympathy. I worked with some illegals that had just come here and were overweight, had the latest gadgets, cell phones, etc yet cried poverty from their former country. They also spoke of how much it cost them for false papers etc. If you're poor, you can't afford such things.

The people that come here illegally are so proud of their home countries and fly the flags and proclaim themselves to be whatever nationality. But, when they have to go back, they whine that it is "dangerous" to go there. They are obviously cowards that will not stand for their own countries in anything by lip service. JMO

“Either we stay here and wait 10 years to be reunited as a family,” he said. “Or we go back and be together, but have no future and expose my kids to the kind of gang violence that resulted in their uncle being kidnapped last year and held for a $25,000 ransom. It’s a terrible decision to have to make.”

This mother breaks our laws by coming here illegaly, leaves a child behind and then decides to have two more children. The father and mother knew what risks they were taking. This is the parents in these families responsibility not us American citizens. They made the decisions we didn't. They want to use these emotional blackmail sob stories to give illegal immigrants a free pass. I say these stories should be used to enforce stricter immigration laws. Everyone of these illegal immigrant parents should be charged with child endangerment.

Originally Posted by Newmexican

The people that come here illegally are so proud of their home countries and fly the flags and proclaim themselves to be whatever nationality. But, when they have to go back, they whine that it is "dangerous" to go there. They are obviously cowards that will not stand for their own countries in anything by lip service. JMO

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I know!!! They are sooo proud of their native country, flying flags, refusing to learn English, because they dont feel they should have to learn it. Then when they get deported they start saying "But I dont want to go back, it sucks there." It is acually kind of funny. Well poppi, you should pack up your anchors and go join mamasita, she is depressed damn it!!!!

I'd like to know the rest of the story. How did the father get his citizenship? How did the older daughter get here? Being illegal herself, the mother couldn't have gotten her a visa. Did the family participate in a criminal activity by having her smuggled in?