Posted on 07/19/2012 2:08:33 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
For two years, Juana Reyes helped feed her two small children and pay her rent by selling tamales at the Walmart Supercenter parking lot on Florin Road. Now the undocumented single mom faces possible deportation for peddling her chicken, pork and chili cheese tamales. Reyes was arrested for trespassing June 28 after the store's security guard and Sacramento County sheriff's deputies said they repeatedly told her to take her tamales elsewhere. Reyes spent 12 days in the Sacramento County jail until the trespass charge was dropped, said her lawyer, Julia Vera, and her children – Cesar Cuesta, 10, and Monserrat Cuesta, 7 – were put in foster care during that time.
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It’s a skill to make good tamales. Maybe she could get one of those HB-1 visas.
It kept the feral animal population in the area down ....
Interesting how that was not really touched on. It didn’t mention her having any sort of license, which I am SURE is required to sell food. Heck, a kid can’t set up a lemonade stand these days.
Clearly, if this was me out there making tamales (yes, I know how to make home made tamales) at Walmart without permission or any kind of license or inspection, the slant of the story would be a great deal different... Oh, and I would probably be in jail. and/or face a big fat fine.
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The article mentions a common law husband and they split up 4 years ago. Just to fill you in.
But "Mr" isn't on the scene, surprise surprise.
>>>If a serial killer was pulled over for rolling through a stop sign, the cops found 12 heads of his victims in plain sight in the back seat of his car, and he was convicted and sentenced to death, would the writer say he was “excuted for rolling through a stop sign”?<<<
If he worked for the Sacramento Bee, yes.
A MOTHER? not an illegal immigrant breaking laws who needs to have her but booted back to her country of origin?
Hard to believe
Bingo! (And not reporting the $15 income either, to preserve her 'eligibility' for those freebies.)
You have asked the most relevant question here. Some of the best tamales I’ve had were purchased from una abuela in our church parking lot after Sunday service. Forget the green card, how’s the green sauce?
Defiant illegal alien hiding behind her children and her tamale wagon. The headline is misleading: she isn’t being deported for selling tamales or for being a mother, she’s being deported for being here illegally.
For every story like this there are hundreds more just like it. Is there some sort of word circulating in their community that the present U.S. government won’t prosecute them if they’re in California, so they can flaunt our laws?
She is illegally in the country.
She was not only trespassing on private property but doing so for financial gain.
Presumably, her tamales were sold without the necessary permits, with no regulation or inspection.
This is accepted.
It is embraced.
It is used as a shining example of why we need new legislation to help people just like her!
Which side of this does Obama take? Does he go with "we must help this poor, struggling, undocumented single mother struggling to make ends meet and feed her babies" or "you didn't build this" because she's demonstrated some entrepreneurial spirit and it must be crushed?
He can do both.
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