A Californian family, fearing immigration raids, decided to take their lives and leave the United States, the family told ABC News.
The family of five people from Chula Vista, California, has excited and moved away from the United States on February 7 due to recent raids across the country by immigration and customs application (ICE) , said the family.
A family member, Anna, 29, said that the family was barely leaving her apartment before moving forward to returning to Mexico.
A Californian family has decided to make their lives and leave the United States to fear ice raids, according to one of the girls.
With the kind authorization of Anna
“We were constantly afraid and anxiety,” said Anna to San Diego Abc News Affiliate Kgtv. “It happened to a point where we could not eat or sleep.”
The fears of his family occur in the middle of the recent repression of immigration by President Donald Trump, with thousands of deportations occurring across the country since its inauguration. According to a Publish on x by iceThe agency arrested 8,276 people between January 22 and January 31 and issued 6,577 “detainees filed” – arrested people according to which, according to ice, has a probable cause of deportation.
“Any illegal entry will be immediately interrupted and we will start the process of returning millions and millions of criminal foreigners in the places from which they came,” said Trump during his inaugural speech.
Trump has also signed several immigration decrees, in particular by declaring a national emergency on the southern border and ending the citizenship of the birth law.
Anna told KGTV that her parents immigrated from Mexico to San Diego in 1997 when she was a child. Originally, his father had received an E-2 visa from a restaurant, but when investors and shareholders of the establishment dismantled the group, Anna said that the family was unable Visa renewal. Thus, the visa expired and they had no sponsorship. However, the family decided to stay in the San Diego region.
Even if Anna is a “dreamer”An undocumented immigrant who came to the United States when he was a child who offers a certain protection, and his sisters, aged 20 and 17, were born in the United States and are citizens, she said she was concerned By his parents taken in the middle of a raid ice cream.
“My biggest fear was to hear that my father had been picked up in one of the ice raids or that my mother was picked up because she was heading for the local store,” Anna told KGTV.
Anna said to the point of sale that if her parents were tangled with ice during a potential raid, they “would not have a way to citizenship”
“The safest way at this stage [is] To start documents from outside the country, “said Anna.
Anna told ABC News that she thought she could have a way to American citizenship by “according to documents and do everything”, but the new changes under the Trump administration made a much more difficult path.
“Leaving a country that has been my country of origin for 30 years has felt surreal,” Anna told ABC News. “It was as if I had nowhere to turn.”
She said that “all her life was San Diego” and that the departure suddenly felt “the carpet was taken from your feet”, especially when she and her family were citizens.
“We have entered this country legally, we did the procedures, my parents paid thousands of dollars to stay in the United States,” said Anna. “If the laws were realistic for people to really have a way to citizenship, we would not have to go through it.”
The family is currently with a friend near Ensenada, Mexico, but slowly tries to go to Mexico City, despite weak and unemployed funds, according to Anna.
When asked what the future of her family would look like, Anna said: “It’s like looking in soapy water,” she told KGTV. “There is something there, but you don’t know how you can get there.”
The family said they had kept their entire identity hidden for security problems.
