Posted on 10/16/2011 11:05:01 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
By all accounts, Jaime Villicana-Campos is a wonderful husband and a beloved father to his children.
He held two physically demanding jobs and worked seven days a week to support his large family. He somehow still made time to spend with his little girls, especially 6-year-old Angelica who suffers from epilepsy. She is particularly close to her doting father and is known in the family as “Daddy’s girl.”
But because of the nation’s sometimes vexing immigration laws, Villicana-Campos is sitting in a Tacoma federal detention facility. He was nabbed by immigration officials in June, a month before his fifth daughter was born. He still hasn’t met baby Sophia.
In the meantime, his wife and five daughters languish without him in a Central Whidbey home that his brother-in-law rented for the family. His wife, Terra Villicana, is fighting for his freedom, but suffers from depression that’s so debilitating that she had to be temporarily admitted to a psychiatric unit. Tears constantly stream down her cheeks as she discusses the untenable situation.
“This is beyond pain. This is torture,” Terra said. “The hardest thing is to hear the kids cry at night. They just want their dad.”
Jaime Villicana-Campos is married to an American citizen and has five children born in America. He has lived in America since he was 14. He worked hard and paid taxes. But still, he faces prison followed by deportation to Mexico because of a mistake he made in 1997.
(Excerpt) Read more at pnwlocalnews.com ...
In a statement on the case, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement corroborates the details of Villicana-Campos’ story, but adds that he was convicted of trafficking cocaine and methamphetamine. He was deported to Mexico “based on that aggravated felony conviction,” according to ICE.
Wife quotes...At the time of his arrest, he was a manager of a horse farm and also worked at a mobile home park for seniors. Terra said he was loved by the residents and was known for helping folks on his own time.
“They were crying because they miss him so much,” she said.
Oh wow, let me get my box of kleenix.
Boofreakin’ hoo
hey le;ts let all the lawbreakers out of prison then.
Thye all have loved one suffering I am sure.
tha kind of oh we miis him/ her so much crap makes me want to barf.
>>(wife says) “I’m miserable every day,” she said. “It’s so difficult to answer these kids’ questions.”<<
It is easy. “Your father is guilty of multiple crimes, including illegally entering the USA twice and trafficking in drugs while here.”
The truth isn’t hard for people of good character.
When and if he gets out send them all back as a family to Mexico where they can all legally be together.
I am so tired of illegals asking for mercy.
What mercy do they have on illegals in Mexico? Let’s give them the same mercy they give others.
We are losing our identity in this country and becoming another socialist south africa (white payback) country. That country’s going to hell and the media is ignoring the atrocities going on there because whites are the ones they’re beign done against. If it were blacks it’d be ‘apartheid II’.
This is balkanization of the US and the media’s all for it.
Exactly. I’d even say let’s put them all together right now where the dad is. Then they won’t be apart. Give them a family cell. They’ll have all their housing and food and security needs all taken care of until they’re all given a trip back home to their REAL country.
Lol. Folks, there are tens of thousands of guys just like him. Multi deportations, and the fed prisons are over half full with the invaders. If they are even sitting in Club Fed it means they have violated US laws multiple times AND usually have done it while running dope and/or involved in ethnic gangs.
Terra, sympathy is found in the dictionary between shiite and syphilis.
Great opportunity to get rid of 7, for the price of detaining one. That would be efficiency in due process. Even if the kids were born in the US, this would test Mexico’s tolerance on providing for children of other nations.
Yep, time to flood the media with sob stories about "victims" of that hateful, bigoted practice.
When will America ever be as good as all other countries? Alas I despair that it will ever happen. Who reading this has not committed a felony or two, made everyday mistakes, whose spouse is starving to death while we are unjustly imprisoned. . . .
Agreed.
The United States should not be in the business of breaking up families. Dual citizenship anchor babies need to stay with their deported parents.
They can return to the US when they reach their majority, and can declare US citizenship and repudiate their citizenship in the other nation.
In this case with only one parent being a drug smuggling illegal alien, the other parent can decide whether US residence trumps keeping the family together in The Old Country.
I hate that the kids are the most innocent victims in this. I believe that they cry for their Dad and that he worked hard to support them.
But I blame the parents for putting them in this position.
The way this poor family is being treated is just horrible! They should immdeiately have their husband and father released, and given $2,000,000 tax free dollars from the United States treasury. The father should immediately be put in congress, have a movie made of his life, and be given a taxpayer supported lifetime pension. As final expiation a randomly selected white gringo should be stripped naked and whipped down Seattle’s main street and hung by the neck until dead.
Maybe he should run for President of the United States??????
Most male felons have a family that loves them. WTF does that have to do with their crimes?
There is nothing “vexing” about the immigration laws, except how they aren’t usually enforced properly.
Yes, by all means an illegal and drug smuggler is exactly the kind of guy who warms the cockles of our hearts.
/sarcasm
Isn’t it funny how none of the Perry supporters show up on these threads?
Maybe I was wrong when I insisted the had no consciences.
I like Perry. What does Perry have to do with a twice deported illegal alien drug dealer in Washington?
I like Perry. What does Perry have to do with a twice deported illegal alien drug dealer in Washington?
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