From the Detroit Free Press: It was 4 a.m., a few days after Christmas, when the Gonzalez children last saw their father.
They had grabbed hold of his suitcase in the living room, crying and begging him to stay.
But Marco Gonzalez was facing a deportation order — and he complied. He left for Guatemala after 20 years of living in the U.S. — a place where he had raised five American-born children, bought and fixed up a modest 2-story house in southwest Detroit and worked as a pool builder for more than a decade.
But a bad check from 15 years ago cost him everything.
On Dec. 30, Gonzalez, 42, hugged his children goodbye in his family home, giving each of them a $20 bill before he left....
According to court documents and Michigan United, an immigrant advocacy group, Gonzalez arrived in Florida in 1993 after fleeing captivity from rebel forces who had abducted him while he was working in the fields with his father. They placed a sack over his head, held him captive for months in the mountains and put him in a cave for three days — hands bound to feet — when he tried to escape, records show.
Gonzalez ultimately did escape and fled to the U.S., where he sought asylum. Immigration authorities believed his testimony, records show, but his asylum case languished in the court for years while he built a life for his children and Guatemalan wife, whom he met and married here.
In 2011, an immigration judge denied him asylum, concluding Guatemala had become a more peaceful country and that it was safe for Gonzalez to return. The case remains on appeal. http://www.freep.com/article/20140109/NEWS01/301090023/Guatemala-Gonzalez-deport-immigrant-Detroit
I shed no tears for this illegal alien and his family. His family can also go back to Guatemala with Dad, if they want to stay together. And he can apply for citizenship the honest way- something he chose not to do previously.
Good bye and don't let the door hit you on your ass on the way back to your country.
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