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Gladys and Nelson Gonzalez have called the United States home since 1989. Their three daughters, now grown, were all born and raised in California.

“For nearly four decades, they have built a life here — raising three daughters, giving back to their community, and recently welcoming their first grandchild,” their daughter Stephanie Gonzalez wrote on a GoFundMe page for the family. “Now, they are being treated as criminals.”

Last month, the parents checked in at an immigration court in Santa Ana, just “like they have been doing since 2000,” Stephanie wrote in an email to CNN.

But this check-in ended with a much different outcome.

The couple was arrested and handcuffed during their February 21 appointment and put in federal custody, where they spent three weeks before being deported to Colombia.

“We didn’t expect that they would be apprehended and held in custody. And again, it’s not really unique to them anymore. It’s happening across the country,” Crooms told CNN, pointing to recent immigration policy changes in the US two months into the current administration.

The Gonzalezes spent many years searching for a viable path to citizenship, paid their taxes and never had any trouble with the law, according to Crooms and their daughters.

Ideally, the couple would have been given time to get their affairs in order and say goodbye to their daughters and grandchild, according to Crooms. But that didn’t happen.

“We had to go and pick up their car from the parking lot and didn’t get to say goodbye,” Stephanie said.

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[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 70 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Where are they sending these people? They don't have a home in another country.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 11 points 11 months ago

El Salvador

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They have been sent to one of the most brutal areas in the US for prisoners, Louisiana. Just look up Angola Prision. Long history of treating prisoners like animals down there.

Edit: I don't think they are going to angola but its representative of the attitude you will find in that state.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 67 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is how you get people to stop showing up to their hearings.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's the point. Show up deportation. Don't show up anything that points them to you=deportation.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don’t show up, now you’re a criminal and we can say we’re deporting known criminals

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

They were calling you that already

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"In 2000, the immigration court found no legal reason that would allow Gladys and Nelson to stay in the United States and they were issued a voluntary departure order, which gives people a certain amount of time to leave the country at their own expense to avoid a deportation order, according to ICE."

Who was President in 2000? 🤔

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

According to trump supporters, it would be Obama.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

LOL. Truth.

[–] turnip@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Saying they supposedly "broke the law" and worked illegally for decades is disregarding the economic benefits their cheap labor brought to US corporations, who no longer had to pay American wages. If we then them away we are turning our backs on our own corporations.

[–] 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
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