{"id":34003,"date":"2018-12-17T11:13:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T19:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34003"},"modified":"2018-12-17T11:57:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T19:57:50","slug":"when-is-enough-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/17\/when-is-enough-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"When is enough enough?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two different families in two different communities are facing imminent deportation for being in the country without the proper documentation.\u00a0 One family has been in the US for over 25 years.\u00a0 The other long enough that the three children were all born in the US.\u00a0 Here are their stories.<\/span><\/p>\n

Daily Kos<\/a><\/strong> —\u00a0Rosa\u00a0Guti\u00e9rrez\u00a0Lopez, a mom of three U.S. citizens including a boy with\u00a0Down Syndrome,\u00a0has become the first undocumented immigrant to publicly go into sanctuary in the\u00a0Washington, D.C. area, following immigration officials ordering her to leave the country for her native El Salvador by Dec.\u00a010.\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t know how long I will be here,\u201d she said about her new home inside Cedar Lane Unitarian, \u201cbut I feel protected here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guti\u00e9rrez\u00a0Lopez\u00a0shouldn\u2019t be a priority for deportation in the first place.\u00a0Since 2014,<\/a> she\u2019s had a work permit issued to her by the U.S. that allowed her to work legally, so long as she continued\u00a0checking in regularly with immigration officials. As someone with familial\u00a0ties and no criminal record, she\u2019d been considered low-priority for deportation. That changed following Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSuddenly,\u201d\u00a0Think Progress reports,<\/a>\u00a0\u201cshe had to come in twice a month and wear an ankle monitor at all times. Earlier this fall, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began encouraging her to self-deport, and warning her that if she didn\u2019t do it herself they\u2019d come for her themselves soon enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

When she got a deportation date, her attorney appealed to a judge,\u00a0but her case is still pending.<\/a>\u00a0With three young kids and one who requires specialized therapies, she went to\u00a0DMV Sanctuary Congregation Network for help. \u201cWe don\u2019t see why she is a priority for deportation,\u201d said Faith In Action\u2019s Richard Morales, who helped coordinate with Cedar Lane Unitarian. \u201cThere is no reason to separate this woman from her children.\u201d<\/p>\n

Orlando Sentinel<\/a><\/strong> — Torres-Bruno, a 60-year-old Argentinian citizen, and his wife, a 61-year-old native of Peru, have been living in Florida with their son, UCF graduate Juan Miguel Torres-Bruno, 26, since they arrived on a tourist visa in 1993, seeking asylum in the aftermath of terrorist attacks in Lima.<\/p>\n

It took seven years for their case to be heard and by then an immigration judge determined the terrorism threat in the South American country had diminished and denied their request. But the family has been allowed to remain in the U.S. under \u201cstay of removal\u201d orders approved annually as they fought to have their case reopened \u2014 until now.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe did everything we were supposed to,\u201d Miguel Torres-Bruno said. \u201cNow, we have to reinvent our life and start all over again like we\u2019re in our 20s.\u201d<\/p>\n

The couple\u2019s last-ditch effort to stay in the U.S. was turned down Tuesday as part of President Donald Trump\u2019s zero tolerance policy \u2014 no undocumented immigrants are exempt from removal.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement that \u201cboth cases received full due process\u201d and that \u201cpursuing repeated [stay of removals] is not a viable means … to permanently postpone their required return to their country of origin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their son is temporarily protected from deportation because of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA. His latest renewal expires in September 2019, but Trump is trying to\u00a0phase out the program<\/a>\u00a0started under former President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

These are but 2 of the undoubtedly thousands of stories from people in the US who are in the country without proper documentation.\u00a0 Most left their countries of origin because of war, political violence or maybe the drug wars.\u00a0 They are mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, sons, daughters, grandchildren willing to take the risks of a long and arduous journey rife with its own problems.\u00a0 They spend weeks, perhaps months moving north in search of better lives for themselves and their families.\u00a0 They are met by suspicion and rancor.\u00a0 And now, as reported in\u00a0The Atlantic<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0, the Trump r\u00e9gime is turning itself onto new targets that have been in the US for 40 years or more — undocumented Vietnamese, refugees from a war that directly involved the US military.\u00a0 There is such hostility in this land that is suppose to represent freedom and welcome, but has become instead hardened and capricious.\u00a0\u00a0When is enough enough<\/strong>?\u00a0<\/strong> <\/em>When do we start living our national values?\u00a0 When do we again become the shining light on the hill?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,<\/span>
\nWith conquering limbs astride from land to land;<\/span>
\nHere at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand<\/span>
\nA mighty woman with a torch, whose flame<\/span>
\nIs the imprisoned lightning, and her name<\/span>
\nMOTHER<\/small>OF<\/small>\u00a0EXILES<\/small>. From her beacon-hand<\/span>
\nGlows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command<\/span>
\nThe air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she<\/span>
\nWith silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,<\/span>
\nYour huddled masses yearning to breathe free,<\/span>
\nThe wretched refuse of your teeming shore.<\/span>
\nSend these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,<\/span>
\nI lift my lamp beside the golden door!”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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