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Albany Park resident fights deportation to stay with wife, infant son
Medill Reports ^ | JAN 30, 2014 | KJERSTIN WOOD

Posted on 02/05/2014 8:46:12 PM PST by moonshinner_09

Anibal Fuentes Aguilar, an undocumented immigrant, faces the daily fear of leaving his wife and 6-month-old son behind.

“My son, Franky, has acid reflux and needs medicine and care,” Fuentes said last week through an interpreter. “I’m the only one who provides for my wife and my son.”

The 27-year-old Albany Park resident is facing deportation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a raid on his apartment complex last year, when officers were looking for another person and inquired about Fuentes’ status.

He was told he must voluntarily leave for his native Guatemala by Jan. 31, but was granted a two- to three-week stay on his deportation while Immigration and Customs Enforcement reviews his case for prosecutorial discretion, groups supporting Fuentes announced at a press conference at the Chicago Temple Thursday.

ICE made Fuentes’ deportation a priority because he has a prior deportation on record, Gail Montenegro, public affairs officer for ICE, said by email. He was detained on Dec. 13 and was released from ICE custody Dec. 19 with electronic monitoring.

Fuentes, a day laborer, has worn an ankle bracelet since he was released and attends weekly check-ins with ICE, he said. His prior deportation was when he tried to re-enter the United States after attending his mother’s funeral in Guatemala in 2009.

“I came here to support my family,” Fuentes said through an interpreter last week. “I have no family left in Guatemala.”

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Government; Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: aliens; chicago; il; immigration
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“My son, Franky, has acid reflux and needs medicine and care,” ..Oh please acid reflux = taking 1 or 2 capsules and thats about all there is to it.Can someone please explain to me how he has no criminal record ? Since Fuentes has no criminal record Cicero said.“We all agree that he is here without permission, that he has this prior deportation,” Cicero said in a telephone interview. “We are asking the prosecutor, please don’t enforce this law against him.”..Please don't enforce this law and that law. He is criminal, and should be held accountable for his violation of our immigration laws .
1 posted on 02/05/2014 8:46:12 PM PST by moonshinner_09
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To: moonshinner_09

Zero sympathy. Take your family with you back to your home.


2 posted on 02/05/2014 8:50:10 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: moonshinner_09


3 posted on 02/05/2014 8:55:48 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: moonshinner_09

Send the family with him.


4 posted on 02/05/2014 9:13:07 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: moonshinner_09

So you put your own family in this situation, and we’re the bad guys. It’s not quite extortion, but it’s one heckuva racket.


5 posted on 02/05/2014 9:23:07 PM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Yup. no reason to leave them behind. Take um with ya.


6 posted on 02/05/2014 9:24:08 PM PST by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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To: cableguymn

“Yup. no reason to leave them behind. Take um with ya.”

I agree...


7 posted on 02/05/2014 9:47:09 PM PST by babygene ( .)
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To: moonshinner_09
"I'm the only one who provides for my wife and son."

I'll just bet...plus anchor baby section 8, food stamps, medical...

8 posted on 02/05/2014 10:11:39 PM PST by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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To: moonshinner_09

Mexico is booming. They have jobs that the Spaniard Mex are too lazy to do.


9 posted on 02/05/2014 10:38:37 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
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“I have no family left in Guatemala.

Well take them and your closest 20 million illegal immigrant friends with you.

Probelemo solved, amigo.

10 posted on 02/05/2014 10:56:15 PM PST by Repeat Offender (Why are cops ROE more lenient against us, here in the US, than U.S. military's ROE's in a war zone?)
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To: moonshinner_09

I don’t have enough energy to read the whole article. I admit that my first inclination is that this is an anchor baby. Here’s my solution to illegal immigration, from my home page:

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Whenever an illegal alien kills someone in a drunk driving accident or something similar, here’s what I recommend:
What can we do about it? Here’s my standard post.

RICO —Citizen Recourse

Private persons and entities may initiate civil suits to obtain injunctions and treble damages against enterprises that conspire to or actually violate federal alien smuggling, harboring, or document fraud statutes, under the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO). The pattern of racketeering activity is defined as commission of two or more of the listed crimes. A RICO enterprise can be any individual legal entity, or a group of individuals who are not a legal entity but are associated in fact, and can include nonprofit associations.

Here’s what I’ve been pushing: it’s time to file Racketeering, Influencing, and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) lawsuits.

RICO lawyers could turn it around in a few years and MAKE MONEY at the same time. I’m surprised they haven’t done it already.

In the absence of enforcement, we can get the word out in the meantime that there is money to be made in filing RICO lawsuits against employers who hire illegal aliens like this jerk.

Employers would have no trouble shutting down the border if they could get sued by someone under the RICO statutes for hiring these people in the first place. The next time an illegal alien kills someone in a drunk driving accident or somesuch thing, I’m going to point out that the victim’s family might be able to seek compensation from the employer under these statutes in the hopes that it would catch on. If this did catch on, would see such a swift backlash against illegal immigration that no employer would go near these people and they’ll all simply want to go back home.



11 posted on 02/05/2014 10:57:09 PM PST by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: babygene

Me too.


12 posted on 02/05/2014 11:08:34 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: moonshinner_09

Lets just start calling these deportations JOB TRANSFERS.

His wife and kid can join him in Guatemala. Happens all the time.

Do we hear these sob stories when servicemen are “deported” to Afghanistan?


13 posted on 02/05/2014 11:12:18 PM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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He made a choice and now wants to play the crybaby card. I feel for him, I really do. NOT!
14 posted on 02/05/2014 11:23:27 PM PST by crazyhorse691 (Obama is just the symptom of what is destroying the U.S.)
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To: crazyhorse691

Deport him. His wife and son should go with him so THEY don’t split their family. The guy is an illegal alien criminal.


15 posted on 02/05/2014 11:36:44 PM PST by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: moonshinner_09
Of course we will be endlessly bombarded by these ridiculous sob stories, just as we were relentlessly shelled with stories about cancer patients who could not get medical insurance in the run-up to the 0bamacare vote.

What you are not hearing in any of these stories is this: nobody is being deported right now, unless they satisfy one or both of two conditions: 1) they have a US felony conviction or 2) They have been deported, granted stays, and have failed to appear for a hearing on MULTIPLE occasions.

NOBODY is being deported right now simply for "being here." NOBODY. This is all baloney.

16 posted on 02/05/2014 11:38:08 PM PST by FredZarguna (Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
"Fuentes said through an interpreter last week"

He's been in the US for at least 5 years and can't speak a GD word of English?

How come this is commonplace when we hear these sob stories?

The illegals ALWAYS seem to "need an interpreter".

I call BS.

I bet he speaks PLENTY of English when doing his tax returns so he can qualify for the EITC.

17 posted on 02/05/2014 11:50:32 PM PST by boop (I just wanted a President. But I got a rock.)
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To: moonshinner_09

Guatemala...why I’ve seen Americans buy houses there on HGTV. Must not be so awful.
According to wiki the ruling party is center right. So he can go home and make some money.


18 posted on 02/06/2014 12:03:48 AM PST by RginTN
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To: moonshinner_09; Liz

.....6-month-old son

“I came here to support my family,” Fuentes said

His prior deportation was when he tried to re-enter the United States after attending his mother’s funeral in Guatemala in 2009.
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This illegal alien did not have that son back in 2009..nor earlier still the first time he entered the US...

so there was no family to “support”...


19 posted on 02/06/2014 2:15:34 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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“My son, Franky, has acid reflux and needs medicine and care,” Fuentes said last week through an interpreter.“

The Mother of All Sob Stories?

20 posted on 02/06/2014 3:47:41 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (ObamaCare. The "global warming" of healthcare plans.)
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