Photo by Craig Moran, Las Vegas Review Journal: Five of the six Quezada children gather Tuesday with their mother in the family’s house. Celeste, 4, left, Geovana, 10, Lola, 6, Ruby, 3, Giselle, 1, and their mother, Baudelia Quezada, were at home on the evening of Feb. 23 when Raymundo Quezada was arrested by immigration officials. He has since been deported to Mexico. The eldest Quezada child, an 11-year-old boy, was in school Tuesday.
Raymundo Quezada, age 34, and his wife, 33-year-old Baudelia Quezada, crossed into the United States illegally about 14 years ago, hoping for a better life. They now have six children.
The children and their parents, who are hard-working own their house in Las Vegas.
Two men and two women, dressed mostly in black, stood on the front porch of the family’s east Las Vegas home, holding a photo of a man Baudelia had never seen before.
They told her in Spanish that they were looking for the "dangerous man" in the photo and believed he was hiding in the family’s backyard.
Baudelia called to her husband that police were at the house. She ushered her frightened children into a back bedroom.
When Raymundo opened the door and stepped outside, he was pushed against the side of the house and handcuffed, Baudelia said.
A few days after he was picked up, Raymundo, who worked for years as a cabinet maker in Las Vegas, was deported to Nogales, Mexico, with the clothes on his back and a cell phone, Baudelia said.
So Baudelia and her six children sit in Las Vegas while her husband and the children’s father is somewhere in Mexico. The children have now become “anchor babies.”
Yeah, I know all about the illegal immigration problem and the howling about illegal immigrants by people in Pahrump a year or so ago. I agree it is a major problem and needs to be dealt with. But is this the way to do it? Is this Christian way?
Is this what we and our government should be doing—ripping families apart like this? Each of those six kids are bona fide citizens of the United States. They’ve done nothing wrong, broke no law. Does our nation now kick them out of the United States?
Ask yourself, is this right? Moral?
I don’t think so. I, for one, abhor this kind of action by the United States. It is plain wrong—law or not.
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Our borders are in a very serious threat of being breached by the drug cartels any day now, Mexico’s governemnt is on the brink of economic and governmental collapse (which would give the cartels the green flag they need), and the peso is sinking like a rock in a cenote.
But at least the INS got this threatening cabinetmaker back across the border…. Jeez….
And just the other day our State Department declared Mexico an equal threat to that of Pakistan. I didn’t realize Pakistan had so many cabinetmakers!