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The heartbreaking tale of a gang member being deported
Hot Air.com ^ | February 27, 2018 | JAZZ SHAW

Posted on 02/27/2018 6:16:39 PM PST by Kaslin

President Trump’s threat to pull ICE and the Border Patrol out of California hasn’t been enacted (yet) so immigration enforcement activities are still taking place. Following the big sweep in the Los Angeles area, individual investigations are still being handled and CBS San Francisco brings us another of the heartbreaking tales of a family being separated by the evil forces of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

This is a particularly curious bit of coverage given how these stories normally go, and we’ll get to why that is in a moment. It starts out as so many of these tales do, with a crying child – the daughter of one Armando Nunez Salgado of Napa – watching as federal agents come charging into the family’s backyard and apprehend her dad while he’s peacefully working in his garden.

ICE agents took Armando Nunez Salgado into custody outside his home. According to family members, he was in the backyard when agents walked right in through the side gate. His 14-year-old daughter Isabel Salgado dissolved into tears.

“I cried. I got very emotional, I was really sad,” said Isabel. “I mean to watch someone who is part of your everyday life and then you just have to watch him leave without saying goodbye. It kind of hurts.”

Armando is a construction worker who has been in America more than 30 years. His wife Elena Ponce said his parents brought him to the U.S. when he was only four years old.

Thus far it’s fairly typical of such coverage. You’ve got the wife and the teenage daughter, distressed and in tears over the unfairness of it all. He volunteered to help fight the wildfires plaguing the area last year. On top of that, Armando was brought here when he was only four years old. Shouldn’t this guy have been in the DACA program? Why wasn’t he a “Dreamer” by now? In any event, he’s clearly one of the good guys. The wife concludes by saying, ” So the fact that they took someone off like that. I don’t see the sense in it all. He wasn’t a danger to the community in any way.”

[See Update At End of Article for more on this criminal]
Normally this is the point where I’d start doing some Google searches to see if there’s something else in this guy’s history which might attract the attention of ICE. It’s not that they can’t deport him simply for being here illegally, but if that’s the entire story they probably wouldn’t make this guy a priority bust. But this is where the CBS article takes a sharp turn and saves us any further searching. It turns out that Armando isn’t quite the non-threat that’s being described. (Emphasis added)

But it turns out, Armando does have a dangerous past. After our interview, his family members told KPIX 5 he was involved in gangs and drugs for a long time.

In fact, at one point, he was on ICE’s most wanted list for charges of felony force and assault with a deadly weapon.

Now things become a bit more clear. He’s only had a few years “clean” according to his family, but before that, he was enough of a bad guy to make the most wanted list as a gang member, drug dealer and violent felon. And the most wanted list era was a few years ago since he’s gone to ground since then.

Once again, using this as a pitch to make Trump out as the bad guy falls flat because he was a high-profile ICE target being actively sought during the Obama administration. It just so happens that it took until now for federal agents to track him down and take him in. But if all you did was read the first five or six paragraphs of the national news coverage you’d only know that the federal agents had dragged the poor fellow out of his garden, leaving his sobbing wife and young daughter in their wake. In fact, the actual title of the article reads, “Family Heartbroken After Napa Man Arrested By ICE Agents.”

The reality? A known, dangerous gang member with a violent past was located and taken into custody for processing and (most likely) deportation. You might not want to shed too many tears over this one, kids.

UPDATE: (Jazz) Received this information directly from ICE:

“On Sunday, Feb. 25, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) San Francisco Fugitive Operations Team arrested ICE fugitive Armando Nuñez-Salgado, 38, a citizen of Mexico and documented Sureño gang member, who has been previously removed by ICE on four prior occasions. Over the past 18 years he has accumulated criminal convictions in California that have resulted in more than 15 years of prison sentencings. His criminal convictions include assault with a deadly weapon (statutorily enhanced because of his gang member status), burglary, hit-and-run causing injury and evading a peace officer.”

This guy had been deported FOUR TIMES and has done 15 years behind bars. He wasn’t exactly the teddy bear the media makes him out to be.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Mexico; US: Arizona; US: California; US: New Mexico; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: arizona; buildthefence; california; daca; deportation; dreamact; dreamers; gang; ice; mexico; newmexico; texas
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1 posted on 02/27/2018 6:16:39 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Oh well.


2 posted on 02/27/2018 6:17:56 PM PST by Rebelbase ( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
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To: Kaslin

My computer screen:

Profoundly unblurry.


3 posted on 02/27/2018 6:19:03 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Kaslin
Minor mistake by author:

This guy had been deported FOUR TIMES and has done 15 years behind bars.

He was sentenced to 15 years. Clearly, he did less time than that.

4 posted on 02/27/2018 6:21:56 PM PST by j. earl carter
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To: Kaslin

Take your family with you, then you won’t be separated.


5 posted on 02/27/2018 6:23:26 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: Kaslin

That’s the side of illegal aliens the fake news media and the Democrats airbrush out of their sob stories...

Aliens who commit crimes and who injure and kill Americans.
That’s whom they defend so passionately.

And condemn Trump for removing from the country and for having the temerity to build the wall to keep them from coming back.

Its not the side of Americans they’re on.


6 posted on 02/27/2018 6:23:55 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever))
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To: Kaslin
él solo estaba empezando a cambiar su vida a little Spanish lingo there for "he was just starting to turn his life around".
7 posted on 02/27/2018 6:24:32 PM PST by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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To: Kaslin
...then you just have to watch him leave without saying goodbye...

Didn't some judge recently determine that illegal aliens a constitutional right to 'say goodbye?'

('So Long', 'Farewell', and 'Auf weidersehen' were conspicuously absent from these constitutional rights.)
8 posted on 02/27/2018 6:26:35 PM PST by posterchild
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To: Kaslin
And now you know the rest of the story.......one the media strategically ignores.
9 posted on 02/27/2018 6:27:09 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Kaslin

The MSM is the bigger threat to America.


10 posted on 02/27/2018 6:29:23 PM PST by umgud
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To: umgud

I still don’t see the logic ofdeportingthese guys when they will be back next week a little smarter. At least tattoo an X on their foreheads.


11 posted on 02/27/2018 6:32:22 PM PST by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: Kaslin

Why can’t CBS find someone being deported that doesn’t have a criminal background? This guy is so bad that CBS had to admit to some of his crimes in the hope of avoiding exposing the rest.


12 posted on 02/27/2018 6:32:42 PM PST by NutsOnYew (If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.)
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To: umgud

As it has been for at least the last 50 years.


13 posted on 02/27/2018 6:33:18 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Kaslin

“The heartwarming tale of a gang member being deported.”


14 posted on 02/27/2018 6:40:47 PM PST by Redcitizen
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To: marktwain

yes


15 posted on 02/27/2018 6:44:07 PM PST by umgud
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To: Kaslin

Save Americian Lives ,deport Obama’s Illegals


16 posted on 02/27/2018 6:44:52 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Kaslin

Oh, boo-frickin’-hoo. Unfortunately there are a ton of people that fall for this.


17 posted on 02/27/2018 6:46:23 PM PST by azishot
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To: Kaslin

I’m not sure if they use these criminals as poster-children because they can’t find any clean cases, or if they just stopped bothering to even fake like they’re trying to report actual truth.


18 posted on 02/27/2018 6:48:58 PM PST by ReagansShinyHair
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To: Kaslin

So if he were a Nazi, or an ex-mob hit man, would it be ok that a few years passed before the police could find him. That would make his many felonies go away.

He was deported 4 times spent 15 years in jail. If this is what dreamers look like, I am not for the dreamers.


19 posted on 02/27/2018 6:56:11 PM PST by poinq
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To: Kaslin

Boo-freakin’-hoo!


20 posted on 02/27/2018 7:03:03 PM PST by luvie (Our troops are the best of the best and we should honor them EVERY day!)
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