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ICE Deports Uncle Of Kids Recently Orphaned After Parents Died Fleeing Immigration Officers
ICE Deports Uncle Of Kids Recently Orphaned After Parents Died Fleeing Immigration OfficersCelestino Hilario Garcia’s brother and sister-in-law died in a car crash while fleeing immigration agents in March. On Wednesday ICE deported him.
By Elise Foley and Sarah Ruiz-Grossman
Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained and quickly deported an undocumented man on Wednesday, leaving behind his four children as well as his six nieces and nephews who were recently orphaned when their parents got into a car crash fleeing ICE.
The arrest of Celestino Hilario Garcia, 33, was the type of ICE action that takes place every day. He has a criminal record for driving under the influence and was previously deported to his native Mexico. It was clear that ICE already had had him in its sights. When ICE agents went to an apartment complex in Delano, California, in mid-March, they were looking for him.
But given what happened next that day, Hilario Garcia’s wife and local advocates condemned ICE’s decision to move forward with his removal.
On March 13, ICE agents went looking for Hilario Garcia and instead followed another man who fit his description: his brother, 35-year-old Santos Hilario Garcia, who was in the car with his wife, 33-year-old Marcelina Garcia Profecto. The two sped to get away from ICE, then veered off the road and crashed their car. Both of them died at the scene.
“We’re still not recovered from the loss, and now they separate us,” said Celestino Hilario Garcia’s wife, who requested anonymity because she fears for her safety, in an interview in Spanish.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ice-deportation-separates-man-from-family_us_5b104987e4b0e096a4627497
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Fuck Trumpig !
Like was Edward II of England...
Okay, besides the popular imagination and some rumors, nothing attests that he was treated a little warmly in the posterior because of his supposed deviance...
But we have a right to dream, don't we? 
