I guess you don't have to be too bright to major in ethnicity, race and migration at Yale.

Imagine if you had a father to help you get into Yale, one of the most prestigious universities — only to talk so much about your struggle and the oppression you faced growing up, that you end up getting him deported.

In a cruel twist of irony, that’s what happened to Viviana Andazola Marquez, who wrote in The New York Times: “I accidentally turned my dad into immigration services.”

In a Tuesday Times op-ed, the 21-year-old described how her father, Melecio, was detained while in the process of getting his green card to become a permanent resident of the United States, where he has lived illegally since 1988. Previously, she provided extensive detail about her parents’ undocumented status to the Huffington Post.

“Most people can’t wait to turn 21 so that they can drink,” she wrote. “For me, it was the day I could finally petition the government to change my dad’s immigration status. I filed the paperwork in February and believed it would be the beginning of sleeping easier at night, of not worrying about ‘la migra’ every time the phone rang.”

In the op-ed, Viviana, who is majoring in ethnicity, race and migration, described how her father raised four children on income from construction work. “He pays his taxes and plays by the rules,” she said. “He himself has been a perfect citizen — although, of course, he can’t call himself that.”

On Oct. 12, Viviana took time off during her senior year at Yale to fly home to Denver to help her father with his interview with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. She thought it would be the final step in a process he’s been involved in for 16 years. Following a recommendation for approval, she was asked to leave the room — and moments later, her father’s attorney and interpreter appeared to tell her that they were told to leave the room by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

“I have spent hours discussing, studying and reimagining fairer immigration policies. But none of that, none of my hard work, is good enough. It won’t release my dad,” she wrote, lamenting that she was unable to do anything about his deportation despite majoring in the topic at college.

According to Hans Meyer, Andazola Morales’ immigration attorney, his client was detained because of an order of exclusion issued when he was stopped at a Texas border in 1997. According to the Denver Post, an order of exclusion is a legal term no longer in use, but it’s effectively the same as an order of deportation. Following deportation in 1998, he returned once again to the U.S. undetected, where he has lived ever since.

ICE confirmed the details with the Denver Post, stating that it was acting on the reinstatement of a previous removal order in 1997.

Andazola Morales’s detention has made the waves throughout Yale, where Viviana’s friends and supporters started a GoFundMe to help the family. They gathered to protest outside of the Geo Group detention facility on Tuesday evening. The GoFundMe page has received $74,000 as of Tuesday.

“It isn’t unheard of for people going through the process, who are following the legal process to receive a green card, are sometimes detained and put into deportation proceedings,” said assistant professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, who teaches law at the University of Denver.

“The tricky thing about the age we’re living in is that the Trump administration has expanded the prioritization that immigration officers used under President Obama such that these days, just about anyone who is in the U.S. who is violation of immigration law is a top priority.”

Melecio Andazola Marquez has been in detention ever since in Aurora, Colorado, and awaits deportation unless ICE grants him the cancellation of his removal.



http://dailycaller.com/2017/10...ien-father-detained/

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was detained while in the process of getting his green card

That's funny, becasue he would have to leave the country to get his green card.

1) Dumb question: if here illegally, one does not have a SSN. If no, SSN, how does one pay Fed/State taxes?

2) Should investigate the construction company who employed him.

3) He played by the rules except..... For example, entering the country illegally TWICE. Where else, pray tell, did he play by the rules. Didn't do nuthing crowd - famous last words. Did he receive any benefits to which he wasn't entitled? Pay that back first and then let's talk.

4) What is unfair about the immigration policies? Aside from not being able to come and live here illegally?

she has been a liberal cause du jour for years.

sorry for the HP link.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com...926ce4b0a40aa3ac3bae

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“He pays his taxes and plays by the rules,”

If he pays his taxes as an illegal - who's SSN is he using?

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Yale student accidentally gets Illegal Father detained by Immigration

Good for her!

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“I have spent hours discussing, studying and reimagining fairer immigration policies. But none of that, none of my hard work, is good enough. It won’t release my dad,” she wrote, lamenting that she was unable to do anything about his deportation despite majoring in the topic at college.

That made me laugh out loud.

Typical leftist, willing to turn in her family to advance the agenda.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

[Fred Sanford] Big Dummy! [/Fred]

that brightened my day

Reentry after Deportation (or in this case, reentry after exclusion), without consent of the Attorney General, is a felony. He needs to start saying prayers of thanksgiving that they're not charging him, merely "reinstating" the prior order of removal.

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“The tricky thing about the age we’re living in is that the Trump administration has expanded the prioritization that immigration officers used under President Obama such that these days, just about anyone who is in the U.S. who is violation of immigration law is a top priority.”

Yeah. How 'bout that whole "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed" clause in Article II, huh? Who'dathunkit?

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:

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“He pays his taxes and plays by the rules,”

If he pays his taxes as an illegal - who's SSN is he using?

Some here illegally get a Federal Tax ID number, an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, meant for Aliens not eligible for a SS Number.

What ^he^ said.

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Originally posted by Fenris:
Typical leftist, willing to turn in her family to advance the agenda.

It was likely her plan all along. What sympathy would she get without him being deported?
None, this would not be a story. She gets no sympathy from me but sadly she will from many.

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he has lived illegally since 1988.


father’s attorney and interpreter

if you have lived here since 1988 and you need an interpreter......

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Yale student accidentally gets Illegal Father detained by Immigration

Good for her!

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“I have spent hours discussing, studying and reimagining fairer immigration policies. But none of that, none of my hard work, is good enough. It won’t release my dad,” she wrote, lamenting that she was unable to do anything about his deportation despite majoring in the topic at college.

That made me laugh out loud.

I had the same reactions. Then I became totally confused as to how she came to this conclusion.


Antifa, anthem kneelers, safe space snowflakes are all screwed up, but I can at least understand - kind of - where they're coming from. I am totally baffled by the above statement.

Dad has lived here for almost 30 years, and still needs an interpreter!?! WTF?

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Originally posted by konata88:
1) Dumb question: if here illegally, one does not have a SSN. If no, SSN, how does one pay Fed/State taxes?

2) Should investigate the construction company who employed him.

3) He played by the rules except..... For example, entering the country illegally TWICE. Where else, pray tell, did he play by the rules. Didn't do nuthing crowd - famous last words. Did he receive any benefits to which he wasn't entitled? Pay that back first and then let's talk.

4) What is unfair about the immigration policies? Aside from not being able to come and live here illegally?

With a green card, I think you're assigned a temporary number with which you are taxed and can work.

One more gone!
Who paid for YALE?

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Viviana, who is majoring in ethnicity, race and migration

WTF kind of major is that?

Untitled by Wayne Wilson, on Flickr

Dropped a dime on the old man to get rid of him, and now has a nice payoff with the GoFundMe account to get a boob job.