A couple living in the United States for 35 years were deported by immigration authorities, separating a family in California. 55 -year -old Gladis Gonzalase and 59 -year -old Nelson Gonzalez were taken into custody in February, CNN reported.
Unspent immigrant couples were arrested on 21 February during one of their regular check-in with US immigration customs and enforcement (ICE). On March 18, he was held for three and a half weeks before he was deported in his country.
Despite no criminal history, Sri and Mrs. Gonzalas, who raised three daughters in Laguna Nigal, were deported, which caused distraction to their loved ones.
In an email to CNN, his daughter Stephanie Gonzalaz said that her parents arrived in an immigration court in Santa Ana last month, as they have been doing since 2000.
The couple’s three adult children – all allegedly American citizens – said in a Gofundme page that their parents never “broke the law, never missed the appointment” since coming to the country.
The daughters wrote, “For about four decades, they have created a life here – taking back three daughters, giving back to their community, and recently welcoming their first grandson,” the daughters wrote. “This sudden incident has left us in shock,” he said.
The daughters mentioned that their parents were now considered as “criminals, were held in detention centers, and were facing exile, which” has “shattered our family emotionally and financially.”
He said that his parents are “kind, selfless people who have always kept others before themselves,” and have asked for liberal donations from the public.
Monica Crows, an immigration advocate at Orange County, who began to represent the couple in 2018, said “he had hoped that he would need to leave and plan to do so, but not in the way that it happened.”
Ms. Crrooms and her children said that Gonzalez paid her taxes, never a legal issue, and spent years in search of effective means to become citizens.
According to Ms. Crrooms, the couple’s exile officer “did not push her to depart by 2018,” she had to leave the country, stating that her situation could not be legalized.
An ICE representative told The Independent that the pair had no criminal background and other case details. The two individuals entered the country in November 1989, near California, without authority and “abolished all legal options to stay in the US”.
After being determined by the immigration court, the couple received a voluntary departure order in 2000, it was determined that there was no valid reason for their living in the country. But after the order was issued, he did not plan to leave the country.
Such orders allow individuals to leave the country at their own expense for a predetermined period of time to avoid exile order according to snow.
