NBC4:
Abel Aparicio was born in Mexico and came to the U.S. when he was 13 years old. He overstayed his visa.
A boxer from Atlanta was detained by immigration officials after being pulled over during a traffic stop in the Florida Keys.
Abel Aparicio was born in Mexico and came to the U.S. when he was 13 years old. He overstayed his visa. Since then, he’s built a career as a professional boxer and also married an American woman. They had three children together.
But in the weeks after President Donald Trump vowed immigration raids in major cities across the country, Aparicio was taken into custody on July 16 in Marathon.
He was on vacation with his friends, riding in the backseat of the vehicle when they got pulled over. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Officer said it was because the car’s tag light was out.
“I honestly think it was racial profiling,” said Aparicio’s wife, Shelby Carter. “I think they saw a lot of brown guys driving down the street, listening to music, having fun, and I think they saw that and that’s why they pulled them over.”
The sheriff called for border patrol 18 minutes into the stop after asking Aparicio for his ID and seeing it was from Mexico.
“When she asked for my ID … I immediately knew I was going to immigration,” Aparicio recalled. more
Tail lights have no race.
“I don’t do anything wrong. I’m a good person:”
BS, you broke our immigration laws. How have you been supporting yourself? BS to boxing. Whose SS number are you using?
Now go back to Mexico.
If you pulled over every car in Florida with “brown people listening to music and having fun,” the Florida police would be so busy they wouldn’t have time to do anything else.
How old are you now? Why didn’t you apply for citizenship instead of boxing or do both at same time? No excuses… No mas!
You’ve known the possible consequences……….for how long………..and have done nothing?
Actions, consequences, reap.
If you think of the U.S. as a sort of heaven, then unless they are converted — legally — no entry. Heaven has a gate and a gatekeeper, too. That should be an easy analogy to understand, right? 🙂
“As the Trump administration demands funding for a border wall to stop illegal immigration, a new study finds that for the seventh consecutive year, visa overstays far exceeded unauthorized border crossings…”It is clear from our research that persons who overstay their visas add to the US undocumented population at a higher rate than border crossers. This is not a blip, but a trend which has become the norm,” said Donald Kerwin, CMS’ executive director, in a statement. “As these numbers indicate, construction of hundreds of more miles of border wall would not address the challenge of irregular migration into our country, far from it.”
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/16/686056668/for-seventh-consecutive-year-visa-overstays-exceeded-illegal-border-crossings
President Trump is ON IT. Happy now, NPR?
“When she asked for my ID … I immediately knew I was going to immigration,” Aparicio recalled.
Did nothing wrong? So whose social security number did he steal? How many years did he not pay income taxes? He has been driving all this time wit a Mexican drivers license? Take your wife and kids and go back to Mexico. I hear they have boxing there too.
A criminal is a criminal, and no you are not a nice guy. You knowingly broke our laws and need to pay the price. Deport with a No Return restriction. Go back to Mexico and stay there.
I like how his White girlfriend pulled the race card. lol
I have no sympathy. Not only was there DACA, but there is a process for citizens to apply for green cards for fiancees and spouses. But hey, just flout the law.
And where are his parents, siblings? Maybe it’s time to do some “chain deportation”.
And also to file charges against those who facilitate illegal immigration.
He is not a threat to flee! Dammit, we want him to flee and to do so expeditiously back to Mexico (and to haul his family with him)!
You were in Florida not California where you’d be untouchable thanks to the dickhead governor.
I hope they check how much mooching he was doing off government programs while here. Make him pay it all back working in the prison laundry at the going rate.
Ship him back and her along with him and come back legally. You are no one special.
If he is sent back to Mexico, will the Mexican gov allow his American wife and kids to stay in Mexico also. Bet not.
@PJ:
Not without the proper papers and identification.