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Emma Sanchez Case

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It was 2006 when Emma Sanchez was filing paperwork to be legalized in the U.S when she had to go to an appointment with immigration authorities at the U.S Consulate in Cuidad Juarez. And what happened next may have been the worst moment of her life. “Authorities told her she would be prohibited from returning home from Vista for 10 years, despite the fact that Paulsen, 51, is a U.S citizen and a Marine veteran” (Tatiana Sanchez). Situations similar to Emma Sanchez has happened before-many times in fact. According to the article “Deported Mothers Make New Lives in Tijuana Separated families part of the debate over U.S immigration” by Tatiana Sanchez, “In the first half of 2014, U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 22,088 unauthorized …show more content…

There, she feared leaving her home because of crime in her neighborhood, thus she almost always stayed in her home. This is one of many reasons why people immigrate to the U.S. However, since they are illegal, they are often sent back, with the U.S government ignorant of what exactly they’re sending them back to. To illustrate, Martine Kalaw wrote about the time she was almost deported in her article “America Should Think Hard About Deporting Illegal Immigrants Like Me”. The immigration judge had threatened Kalaw with deportation by sending her to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where he thought she belonged. What he may not have (or may have) knew was that the DRC was violating human rights, such as the systematic rape of women especially in Eastern Congo, and war was also taking place in the DRC at that time. Another example is with Syrian refugees recently coming into the U.S, raising debate about letting them stay. But what people who are against the idea don’t seem to realize that sending those refugees back will send them to a country that is currently in a brutal war between a terrorist group and Syrian rebel militias, hence, the reason the refugees fled in the first

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