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Judi Lynn

(160,516 posts)
Tue Apr 18, 2017, 09:26 PM Apr 2017

First Protected Dreamer Deported to Mexico Under President Trump

Source: Time


Raisa Bruner
7:05 PM ET



Immigration officials have deported a man who is believed to be the first Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program recipient to be deported under President Donald Trump's administration.

California resident Juan Manuel Montes, 23, was deported in February, according to his legal team at the National Immigration Law Center. He currently remains in Mexico awaiting further information on his status, and has filed a federal lawsuit as his deportation challenges continue.

Montes first arrived in the U.S. at the age of nine, and had been working in agriculture and studying welding at local community college when he was picked up by a Border Patrol agent in Calexico. Without identification on his person, Montes was deported to Mexico that night. He had been twice protected by the Obama-era DACA status, which was valid through 2018.

Enacted by the Obama administration, the DACA program is meant to protect undocumented immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children (known as Dreamers) from deportation and also gives them work permits.




Read more: http://time.com/4745642/donald-trump-daca-dreamer-juan-manuel-montes/

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First Protected Dreamer Deported to Mexico Under President Trump (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2017 OP
Reading stories like this, it's not hard to side-eye America's Charles Bukowski Apr 2017 #1
Where's obama? He said he would fight this Norbert9 Apr 2017 #2
I hope he is supported in Mexico Equinox Moon Apr 2017 #3
Usa today catsudon Apr 2017 #4
When will we hear about deportations back to Europe? IronLionZion Apr 2017 #5

Equinox Moon

(6,344 posts)
3. I hope he is supported in Mexico
Tue Apr 18, 2017, 09:35 PM
Apr 2017

I read a story awhile back regarding a woman being deported to Mexico. Family and friends got on planes to meet her there. They brought money and set her up in a hotel and are helping her get settled. All the while, they are fighting it back in USA.

I hope he is supported well.

catsudon

(839 posts)
4. Usa today
Tue Apr 18, 2017, 10:08 PM
Apr 2017

Read a similar article on usa today that listed 4 convictions, which maybe the reason why he was deported. However those are not serious enough to revoke his DACA status.

IronLionZion

(45,427 posts)
5. When will we hear about deportations back to Europe?
Tue Apr 18, 2017, 10:45 PM
Apr 2017
When will they go house to house in rural Appalachia and see how many Trumpers have documents?

Yeah Donny, so much for only deporting dangerous criminals. Apparently we're all dangerous criminals.

They'll come after US citizens eventually. Born in the USA or not. You're going back where you didn't came from.

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