Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported the husband of a U.S. soldier who was killed in Afghanistan in 2010. On Monday, after the case received substantial local media coverage, the man was returned to the U.S., according to the local AZ Central.
Jose Gonzalez Carranza was arrested on his way to work last week and was deported to Nogales, Sonora on Thursday, his attorney told AZ Central. He was allowed to reenter the U.S. on Monday afternoon and ICE officials dropped him off in Phoenix, Arizona. The agency did not give an explanation for why he was allowed to reenter, but Gonzalez Carranza told the local newspaper he believes it was because of media coverage.
His late wife, Army Pfc. Barbara Vieyra, was killed at the age of 22 in Afghanistan. The couple had a daughter together, who is now 12-years-old. While Gonzalez Carranza was deported, she stayed with her grandparents and was not told about what happened to her father.
While Gonzalez Carranza is an undocumented immigrant — he came to the U.S. from Mexico in 2004 as a teenager — he was granted a parole in place leniency after his wife was killed which was suppose to allow him to stay in the U.S. undocumented.
“There are plenty of people you can go after but not a guy whose wife died in Afghanistan,” he said.
Read the full AZ Central report here.
ICE is out of control and Trump wants them to go even further…including breaking standing laws!
The Republicans are allowing Trump to destroy our nation…despicable!
Over the last 20 years, none US citizens have comprised around 30% of our enlisted soldiers and hoping for a path to citizenship. Trump has nuked that source of talent and women and man power for the US Military. The amazing thing is Trump himself is a 5 time draft dodger…a cheat and a coward!
Now the US Military has a critical shortage of recruits!..no surprise given Trump.
Are Republicans (Mitch the little witch McConnell) planning to install a “real” military draft or are they going to allow Trump to destroy the military like he destroys everything else?
Cruelty is part and parcel of what it’s all about.
Cruel and stupid. It’s hard for me to imagine they didn’t even check his status.
Gives more strength to the narrative that ICE needs to be entirely disbanded and replaced from the ground up.