Posted on 09/03/2013 7:27:39 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
When Edgar Falcon and Maricruz Valtierra exchanged vows last week, it wasn’t inside a church or at a fancy wedding venue. Instead, they had a border wedding on the Paso del Norte International Bridge, which connects the United States-Mexico border cities of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
The couple said they decided to get married there because that’s the closest Valtierra, a Mexico citizen, can get to the U.S. The 25-year-old is barred from entering the U.S. because she falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen by using someone else’s birth certificate when she tried to enter the country as a teenager.
She currently lives in Ciudad Juárez, one of the most violent cities in Mexico, while her husband, a 27-year-old U.S. citizen, lives in El Paso.
Falcon said he planned to sponsor Valtierra to come live in the U.S. with him after they got married. But because immigration laws bar her from ever entering the country, he faces the choice of staying to live in Texas and being apart from his wife or moving to Ciudad Juárez.
“Yes, I can still go to Juárez to see her,” Falcon told The Texas Tribune. “But the whole dynamic is that in order to live with her and start a family, I have to exile myself out of my own country.”
Falcon also said he hopes the border wedding will draw attention to the issue and show that “immigration does not only affect immigrants, but it also affects us as U.S. citizens.”
Yes, I can still go to Juárez to see her,” Falcon told The Texas Tribune. “But the whole dynamic is that in order to live with her and start a family, I have to exile myself out of my own country.”
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Yes, I can still go to Juárez to see her,” Falcon told The Texas Tribune. “But the whole dynamic is that in order to live with her and start a family, I have to exile myself out of my own country.”
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Nobody held a gun to your head and made you marry her, sucker...
I assume he knew this before he married her, so if he loves her, you'd think he'd move wherever she is to be with her.
Smells like a publicity stunt to me.
Give it a year and you will be telling all your friends how to be married but not be married , wink,wink.
but she is happy exiling of her own
As I was rising up the ranks in my company, I had to spend almost 5 months a year living away from home, where my wife and kids were.. I hated it but I had no choice if I wanted to give them a better life in the future..
Give it a week and Maricruz will be here in the states under another name drawing some benefits.
She broke the law, and the punishment says the groom gets to become a Mexican - BY HIS OWN FRICKING CHOICE.
She must abide by the law? GASP - how dare we expect any such thing!!!
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