Mr. Wife of former Marine to be deported to Mexico Friday, after 20 years in U.S. - CBS News Wife of former Marine to be deported to Mexico Friday, after 20 years in … If you really love veterans, why didn’t you pardon me?”Alejandra Juarez, 38, was joined by her family and her congressman, Darren Soto, at Orlando International Airport for tearful farewells before her flight back to Mexico.Trump’s Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, was criticized by immigrant groups for deporting scores of non-citizen U.S. military veterans and for deporting immigrants whose only crime was re-entering the country after an earlier removal order.ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - The U.S. government deported a Mexican woman on Friday who had lived in the country illegally for nearly two decades despite efforts by lawmakers to keep her in Florida with her husband, a Marine Corps veteran, and her two American children.Juarez has said her youngest daughter, who is nine years old, will come to live with her in Mexico because her husband frequently travels for his work running a flooring business.Reporting by Joey Roulette in Orlando; Writing by Jonathan Allen, Editing by Rosalba O'BrienUnder new guidelines issued by the Obama administration in 2014, however, Juarez was considered a low priority for removal, her lawyers said.Juarez sought to illegally enter the United States in 1998 and was ordered to be removed, precluding her future chances at getting a visa or becoming a citizen, according to Soto and media interviews Juarez has given.Her husband has told reporters that he voted for Trump in the 2016 election.Her lawyers said to reporters she was only now being deported because of U.S. Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy on illegal immigration.Trump, a Republican, broadened ICE’s focus within days of taking office in 2017, saying no immigrants should be considered exempt from law enforcement.ICE, which did not respond to questions on Friday, has said that Juarez’s re-entry after her removal is considered a felony.
She had the luck to get papers easily, not me,” Juarez said early Friday from Orlando International Airport while surrounded by a sea of media cameras, microphones and journalists.
Former Marine Sgt. The eldest of the couple’s two children was just 12 months old when their father was deployed to Iraq.The Trump administration was suppose to reunite families they separated by July 26.“The United States has a lot of policies in place to protect veterans and active duty and their families, and it is absolutely, incredibly, frustrating that these are not being made available to the wife of a decorated veteran who has served overseas multiple times,” the attorney told the Military Times. ... a naturalized citizen from Mexico who served a two-year combat deployment to Iraq with his Marine … Juarez said she didn’t understand it at the time and only found out much later that the document was an expedited order of removal – which essentially stripped her of the right to ever return to the U.S. or become an American citizen.WASHINGTON — Alejandra Juarez, wife of a combat veteran and mother of two U.S. citizen-children, was deported to Mexico on Friday after losing her battle to remain in the United States.“We are talking about a woman who supported a military veteran abroad, raised a family, has been doing everything she can to stay in the country, and when (the Department of Homeland Security ) decides to kick her out, they don’t have the courtesy to give her documents back to do so in an orderly fashion,” Soto said ahead of her departure.Juarez was surrounded by media, family and friends as she began a series of emotional goodbyes ahead of a morning flight from Orlando to Atlanta before boarding another plane to Mexico. Alejandra Juarez, 38, was joined by her family and her congressman Cuauhtemoc “Temo” Juarez, also a former member of the Florida National Guard, entered the United States in 1998 and the two married in 2000. Her husband fought for our country. She was caught the first time, and a border official had her sign a document in English before returning her to Mexico.Soto said he, along with other congressmen, has filed bills, held a press conference, sent letters, had personal conversations – done everything in their power to sway the authorities in Juarez’ case.“The girls are, of course, sad,” her husband, Cuauhtemoc “Temo” Juarez, told Stars and Stripes after his wife boarded her final flight to Mexico.“We are talking about someone who this country owes a debt to,” Soto added. Jose Segovia Benitez, 38, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1999-2004 and was deployed to Iraq, was deported to El Salvador on Wednesday, according to … The U.S. government deported a Mexican woman on Friday who had lived in the country illegally for nearly two decades. After being discovered in the country during a 2013 traffic stop, she had been required to check in every six months with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials.Soto, a Democratic congressman, has sponsored a so-called private bill that would grant Juarez a visa if passed, a last-ditch, frequently unsuccessful recourse for immigrants who have exhausted other avenues.She illegally re-entered the country in 2000, the same year she married Temo Juarez, a Mexico native who went on to serve in the war in Iraq with the U.S. Marines and is now a naturalized U.S. citizen.“Mr President, you deporting me is not going to hurt just me; you’re making a veteran suffer,” Alejandra Juarez said at the airport.
President by deporting me, you are not only making me suffer, you are making a veteran suffer.”But even after sending another letter to the Secretary of Defense asking him to ask ICE to stop the deportation. Polk County Marine veteran's wife faces deportation Cuauhtemoc “Temo” Juarez could not help but shed tears when he watched his wife, Alejandra, …
WASHINGTON — Alejandra Juarez, wife of a combat veteran and mother of two U.S. citizen-children, was deported to Mexico on Friday after losing her battle to remain in the United States. That same year, she married Temo Juarez, an Iraq veteran and naturalized citizen. She’s not a criminal,” her daughter Pamela told The Associated Press, cursing at the immigration agency before her mother checked in for her flight from Orlando International Airport.“Unfortunately, at the end of the day, it’s up to the Trump administration to make a decision,” he said.
Marco A. Chavez, a Marine veteran who was deported to Mexico in 2002, was allowed to return in 2017. Cuauhtemoc "Temo" Juarez is shown with his wife Alejandra and their daughters, now 8 and 16 years old. “It’s really both disturbing and ironic. Petty said he was still trying to reopen Mr. Segovia-Benitez’s immigration case.
“And we are deeply disappointed with a president who, although he has really anti-immigrant rhetoric, at least pretends to stand by our veterans.”It wasn’t until the Trump administration’s policy of zero tolerance for illegal immigrants that the Juarez family faced being torn apart.