Posted on 06/02/2018 2:33:46 AM PDT by SkyPilot
More than a month ago, a Delano couple died when they crashed their truck while fleeing from immigration agents. The man and woman, who were in the country illegally, had not been the intended target of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Officials later said that the agents were trying to arrest another man and that Santos Hilario Garcia, who died in the crash, matched the description of their target.
On Wednesday, ICE arrested and deported the person they had been after: the dead man’s brother, Celestino Hilario Garcia.
Celestino Hilario Garcia was leaving his apartment complex in a car with his wife and a neighbor when he was arrested by ICE deportation officers, according to the United Farm Workers Foundation, which has been working with the family. His wife and four children remain in Delano.
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The family unit is not important to all of them by far. It is very common for the men to leave wife and family and come North, get a new wife and family. If they get deported they often go back to the first family. That happens over and over. Many think nothing of leaving children with whoever, even selling them for trafficking.
I actually get tired of hearing about their family being so important- they play on it but not so important to many. They are no better or worse than say we are about that, some are truly family oriented, some are not. Nothing special about their family connections to many.
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