After residing in the US for thirty years, Jorge Garcia, a married man and father of two, was deported back to Mexico last Monday. Garcia entered the States at the age of ten when his aunt brought him in without any documentation. Because of Garcia’s age, he was exempted from DACA or the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
When Garcia and his wife attempted to get his status legal in 2005 wounded up in deportation proceedings. Garcia had no criminal records and checked in regularly ICE officials. During Obama’s presidency, a program called the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans was introduced that would allow adult undocumented immigrants who have children that US citizenship or a lawful permanent residence to stay, but was blocked by federal courts.
Source:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/01/16/too-old-for-daca-a-michigan-father-is-deported-after-three-decades-in-the-u-s/?utm_term=.5f4b6a18f2af
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