Posted on 02/08/2018 8:44:53 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Maria Barrancas stood in the backyard of her mother-in-laws home, alone but for a pig and some hens. It had been about a week since she packed up her life in Gardena and left for Mexico with her partner and their two children.
There, in the small, dusty Sinaloa town of El Aguaje, the isolation hit her. Her three older children were still in California. She was in a country she hardly remembered, having left for the U.S. 32 years ago at age 15.
She broke down in tears but wiped them away before walking inside to her family. She didnt want them to see that she was afraid.
Back in their two-bedroom apartment in Gardena, Barrancas and Ricardo Madrigal had dreamed of one day owning a home nearby. They made money buying and selling used cars. Every other day, Barrancas would see her then-21-year-old daughter, Cynthia, and granddaughter Hailee, who lived five minutes away.
But all that felt stable came unmoored when Donald Trump was elected president. Barrancas watched as Trump said he did not want people like her and Madrigal in a country he boasted hed make great again, in part, by getting rid of them.
The couple were in the country illegally. Jobs already felt hard to come by, and the anti-immigrant climate added to their stress.
They decided to leave in August, heading for a border they had long avoided a process some refer to as self-deporting.
In Tijuana, their daughter, Luz, then 6, clung to them, sobbing to go back. Barrancas held her tight and told her everything would be OK.
Were starting a new life today, she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
You know what these stories are substituting for..?
For the old homeless stories..!
we’re not getting those simply because the economy is sky-high.
rest assured that when the stock market tanks we’re going to have both these stupid, boo-hoo illegal alien stories and then the homeless updates, too.
Awwwwww....
All the bank robbers in San Quentin are sad because they can’t see their kids either..
MYOCG.
Make Your Own Country Great.
Trump should simply say, “We’ll legalize them, but they do not get to receive government benefits or vote.” Let’s see if the Dems really care about them.
Left:
> Whining...
Right:
> Winning...
How so?
Mexico is a great country.
Or so I have been told.
Sorry but that article got me upset.
Wow their house and furniture in Mexico is better then some of the homes in my area. South Caroline has a lot of poor people living in rundown homes and trailers.
Are they driving a BMW? They have a Sam’s Club in Zapopan.
They are sending their daughter to private school. My parents could not afford private school. Maybe they should consider home schooling or public school...
How about an article about the poor people in South Carolina, who cannot afford nice furniture, nice clothes, nice house and on top of that a BMW? People in South Carolina have dreams too.
Maria Barrancas . . . was in a country she hardly remembered (Mexico), having left for the U.S. 32 years ago at age 15.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3630433/posts?page=1
a Kansas father of three who has lived in the U.S. for three decades . . . Jamal, who is from Bangladesh, was about to take his daughter to school on Jan. 24 when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials showed up on his front lawn in Lawrence, Kansas, and arrested him.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3630444/posts
With nothing but the clothes on his back and less than $300 in his pocket, Amer Adi was put on a plane and deported to Jordan, the country he left 39 years ago to pursue his American dream.
“Poor innocent illegal finally receiving justice” seems to be the news theme for today, personalized to one sympathetic criminal on the way out. The media propaganda arm of the Democrat Party must have received their marching orders from Obama, Pelosi, and Hillary. We will see if this plays as well with real Americans as it did with their focus groups when they were planning. My guess? It will fail like everything else that America’s enemies have tried since the 2016 Presidential Election turned out in America’s favor.
For people who broke the law.
“They made money buying & selling used cars”.
Wanna bet that this was all done under the radar?
Wanna bet they did NOT have a used auto dealer’s license?
Wanna bet that they were drawing SOME SORT of benefits while they were doing all this buying & selling???
If I, an American citizen, were caught as an illegal alien down in mexico, they would bury my gringo ass under the jail.
Time to start treating the mexicans like the mexicans treat Americans.
The government may be okay with putting the interests of foreign nations over those of their own citizenry, but the people sure aren’t.
The pity well done run dry.
Get legal or get out.
You really should have added “BARF ALERT” to the title.
This pro illeal alien propagand is sickning. I worry how many people will read this and suddenly get a bleeding a heart for these inavders.
Also, why did this “poor woman” need to self deport? She was perfectly safe here in our Sanctuary State of California.
I also caught this about some of her family's income...
They made money buying and selling used cars.
How does one do this legally, without being a licensed car dealer? And, if one had a dealership, even a small one, it would be referred to as a dealership. One is a bit suspicious of extra-legal activity, here.
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I would think she would be thankful for finally being out of this racist, unjust country.
All the sob (coordinated) stories from the MSM. Boo hoo.
Oh, stop, stop! My tears are ruining my eye makeup. /s
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