The immigration authorities deported the illegal, but then changed their mind and brought him back to the US

11 April Immigration officers deported a widower to an American soldier killed in Afghanistan, leaving the couple's 12-year-old daughter in Phoenix, Arizona, and then abruptly changed their decision to 17 April and let the man return to the US

Фото: Depositphotos

30-year-old José González Carranza was arrested by employees of the immigration service 8 in April on his way to work in Phoenix, and already 11 in April was sent to the Mexican city of Nogales (Sonora), writes USA Today. Carranza was married to Private First Class Barbara Vieira, who was killed while serving in Afghanistan on 18 September 2010. She was 22 of the year and had a three-year-old daughter.

In the afternoon of April 15, Carranse was allowed to return to the US through the point of entry in Arizona. The man was taken back to Phoenix, where ICE staff left him at the agency’s office. ICE officials did not give an explanation for what happened. Attorney Carranza Ezekiel Hernandez believes that the change of decision was due to media attention to the case.

Carranza said he really wants to see his daughter, who lives with her grandparents. He did not tell her about the deportation, for fear of causing injury that would aggravate the grief from the loss of the mother.

In Mexico, Carranza lived in a shelter for deported migrants in an unfamiliar city and was very worried about the fate of his daughter, a US citizen, who remained in Phoenix. The father was afraid that he would never see the girl again.

On the subject: Thousands of children from other countries legally adopted in the United States face deportation

The lawyer believes that ICE was cruelly hurt by the man and his daughter, given the trauma suffered by both.

"There are a lot of people you can come for, but don't touch a man whose wife died in Afghanistan," he said.

Vieira was mortally wounded when rebels attacked her unit using a grenade launcher and an improvised explosive device. This happened in the province of Kunar, as the Pentagon stated then. The unit was sent to Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Cecilia Wang, associate director of the American Civil Liberties Union, cannot recall such cases in her practice.

“It is the ultimate cruelty of ICE to deport the father of a child whose mother was killed while serving in the U.S. Army in Afghanistan,” Wang said. “The government has the discretion not to deport the only living parent of a U.S. citizen child.”

Photo: video frame azcentral.com

Carranza came to the US illegally from Veracruz, Mexico, in 2004, as a teenager. He and Vieira got married in 2007.

After his wife was killed in Afghanistan, Carranza received a provisional status, allowing illegal immigrants to remain in the US without the threat of deportation. However, ICE revised its closed case in 2018.

A judge ordered deportation in December 2018 when Carranza failed to appear in court. But his lawyer says the man never received the notice - ICE sent the document to the wrong address. Carranza learned that they wanted to deport him when they came for him on April 8 and took him into custody.

On the subject: How scammers lure money from immigrants by pretending to be ICE agents

The lawyer filed a motion to reopen Carranza's case. This resulted in an automatic stay of removal from the country, but ICE deported him anyway. It's "not uncommon" for ICE to violate deportation terms, Cecilia Wang said.

After the lawyer spoke in the local press and told the story of Carranza, an ICE officer called him and said that the agency was taking steps to return his client back to the United States. After that, Carranza was handcuffed into the United States and sent to the office in Tucson. He was promised to be delivered to Phoenix and released on bail.

Barbara Vieira's family tries to preserve the image of her mother in the memory of the girl. The sister of the deceased, Guadalupe, did not know about the deportation of Carranza until the journalists called her.

“When Evelyn was 3 years old, she was too young to understand what happened. She’s almost a teenager now,” the woman says of her niece, the daughter of Carranza and Vieira. - We talk about this all the time. We are celebrating my sister's birthday and the anniversary of her death. We want her niece to know that her mother died fighting for her country."

Read also on ForumDaily:

Marriage with an American: useful tips from the US Migration Service

The killer of the MS-13 gang returned to New York after the deportation and was arrested by ICE

The woman said she was a victim of violence and was deported from the US

Do you want more important and interesting news about life in the USA and immigration to America? — support us donate! Also subscribe to our page Facebook. Select the “Priority in display” option and read us first. Also, don't forget to subscribe to our РєР ° РЅР ° Р »РІ Telegram  and Instagram- there is a lot of interesting things there. And join thousands of readers ForumDaily New York — there you will find a lot of interesting and positive information about life in the metropolis.