Couple deported to Mexico after 30 years in US, leaving kids
Source: Associated Press
Updated 2:16 pm, Friday, December 8, 2017
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A couple who came to New Jersey from Mexico 30 years ago have been deported, leaving their three children behind.
Oscar and Humberta Campos lived in Bridgeton, New Jersey, and own a landscaping company. They said goodbye to their children Friday morning at the Newark's airport before boarding a flight to Mexico City. The children, ages 16, 22 and 24, are all American citizens.
Campos said he fled violence in his hometown, Tamaulipas, and crossed the border into Texas in 1989.
WCAU-TV reports that after a lengthy effort to obtain work visas, federal immigration officials ordered them to leave the country.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Couple-deported-to-Mexico-after-30-years-in-US-12416574.php
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HUMBERTA CAMPOS
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22/12/2013 14:28 GMT | Updated 07/12/2017 03:14 GMT
ELIZABETH, N.J. -- In his 24 years in the United States, Oscar Campos mostly stayed out of trouble. He worked hard, paid his taxes and took care of the rent and bills months in advance, so that he wouldn’t have to worry about the basics when his landscaping business slowed down for the winter.
He went to church every Sunday -- the same church where he married his wife 23 years ago. His idea of excitement involved stirring some melted chocolate into his coffee and catching a particularly titillating episode of "Caso Cerrado," Telemundo’s answer to "Judge Judy."
His mild manners served him well. Born in Mexico, he slipped across the border to San Diego in 1989 and continued to elude immigration authorities until 1995, when he tried to enter the country a second time after a visit with his parents and was caught and deported.
He returned to the U.S. a year later, once again crossing the border illegally. But over the next decade, as first the Bush and then the Obama administration ramped up the detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants, he grew increasingly fearful that he hadn’t seen the last of the immigration authorities. He hadn’t.
More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/12/22/oscar-campos-immigrant-detention_n_4482549.html
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