14 Year-Old: This Week My Mother Was Deported

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Jackie Rayos-Garcia Tells About the Deportation of Her Mother, Guadalupe García de Rayos

Jacqueline Rayos-Garcia, who goes by Jackie, is 14 and lives in Mesa, Arizona. She has a passion for school, particularly learning about biomedical sciences (you guessed it: she’s studying to be a doctor), and like many other people her age, she loves hanging out with her loved ones. But her family has been separated: On Wednesday, immigration authorities detained her mom, Guadalupe García de Rayos, who goes by Lupita. By Thursday morning, Lupita was deported to Mexico. Now, Jackie is vowing to bring her mom back home.

Last week, Lupita, her husband, and her two children met with two organizers from Puente to consider options aside from attending the yearly meeting with immigration officers. She could have attempted to avoid the meeting or to seek sanctuary in a church. But Jackie says that her mom thought it was the right thing to do and wanted to keep her word, so the family decided that Jackie would go to her yearly meeting. Puente organized a rally outside the immigration office. The family attended mass before Lupita and her attorney went for her check-in. That’s when federal agents apprehended her. The next time Jackie saw her, Lupita was in a federal deportation van. Less than three weeks after Trump took office, the family was torn apart.

On Thursday, Jackie spent the morning packing her mother’s belongings in a suitcase to bring them to her in Mexico. And that’s when she broke down. “No one should ever have to go through what we’re going through,” she said, holding back tears remembering that morning. She finished packing and caught a ride that afternoon to Nogales, a border city in the Mexican state of Sonora. Although Lupita is unauthorized to return to the U.S., Jackie is a U.S. citizen and can visit her mom as long as she has the time and money to do so.

“When I see my mom, the first thing I’m going to do is hug her and tell her I love her,” said Jackie on the car ride to Mexico on Thursday.


read more: http://www.teenvogue.com/story/jackie-rayos-garcia-mother-deported-guadalupe-garcia-de-rayos

[vlyons]

1. absolutely disgusting

it's a pogrom

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Fuckface and his fans love this shit. I gotta tell

ya, this isnt gonna stand for most of us.

Nope.

What was that line some Japanese Admiral said right after bombing Pearl Harbor?

[boston bean]

3. It makes me sick and really pisses me off!

[TexasProgresive]

4. I hear Peter, Paul, Mary and Tom Paxton singing Woody's words. Will nothing ever change.

"Deportee" Woody Guthrie

The crops are all in, the peaches are rotting
The oranges piled in their creosote dumps
They're flying us back to the Mexican border
To pay all our money just to wade back again

Some of us are illegal and some are not wanted
Our work contract's out and we have to move on
600 miles to that Mexican border
They chase us like outlaws, like thieves on the run

Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportee

The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon
A fireball of lightning that shook all the hills
Who are these friends now all scattered like dry leaves?
The radio says they are just deportees

Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportee

We died in your hills, we died in your deserts
We died in your valleys and we died on your plains
We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes
Both sides of the river, we died just the same

Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
To fall like dry leaves and to rot on the topsoil
And be called by no name except
deportees?

Goodbye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won't have a name when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be deportee

[TrekLuver]

7. Thank you for posting this. Music is one of the things that will help see us through.

[smirkymonkey]

5. How heartbreaking.

No child should have to go through this. This madness has got to stop.

[SHRED]

6. It's never the exploiters who are held responsible

Corporations, companies, businesses, and everyday citizens who hire illegally get slaps on the wrist if that.

The company that Guadalupe García de Rayos worked for at the time it was raided is still in business.

We have a sick society that blames, condemns, and destroys the exploited, the defenseless. We have a sick society that has no problem with families being torn apart while those doing the exploiting and their greedy selfishness of illegal hiring is barely noticed.