Wife Left Alone With Kids After Husband Deported To Mexico Attending State Of The Union Address
January 30, 2018 at 8:19 am
DETROIT (WWJ) – The wife of a man deported to Mexico after 30 years living in this country is attending the State of the Union in Washington, D.C.
She plans to serve as a visual reminder of the dreamers, of DACA, and of all the families who stand to lose if the country that embraced them as children releases them into what feels like a strange land as adults.
Cindy Garcia, of Lincoln Park, will be the guest of Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Dingell at the State of the Union Tuesday evening. She’s anxious to hear what President Donald Trump will say about immigration. She also attended Michigan’s State of the Union talk, and said she intentionally sat directly in the sight line of Gov. Rick Snyder, who did not acknowledge her during his speech.
“I believe that we need a pathway to citizenship for the dreamers,” Garcia told WWJ’s Laura Bonnell. “We need to change the broken immigration system for it to fit the families. And I believe that it needs to be done individually because, like in my husband’s case, he has no criminal record.”
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Jorge Garcia, 39, of Lincoln Park hugs his wife, Cindy Garcia, and their two children at Detroit Metro
Airport on Jan. 15, 2018, moments before boarding a flight to Mexico.
(Photo: Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press)
Ripped apart by deportation of dad, the Garcia family struggles to cope
USA TODAY NETWORKNiraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press Published 4:03 p.m. MT Jan. 22, 2018
DETROIT — Without Jorge Garcia, her husband and the father of her two children, home doesn't feel the same for Cindy Garcia.
"It's empty," Garcia of Lincoln Park said Friday while sitting at the kitchen dining table of her mother's home.
"The house is completely empty. We walk in, and it's not the same. We're always looking at the door, waiting for him to come through from work, and he's not going to come through.
"It's even affected my dog," said Garcia, a medically retired Dearborn truck plant worker. "My dog looks at us, and he's just laying by my feet like he knows something's missing, but he can't figure it out."
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