Four Mexicans who are part of a group that was deported from the United States between 2009 and 2014 after signing a "voluntary departure", returning on Tuesday to California to have his day in court, confirmed Univision News the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU ) in San Diego.
Before returning, the four Mexican immigrants, accompanied by activists and the ACLU Human Rights Commission of Mexico, held a press conference in Tijuana to report the program that facilitated their returns.
"We are still awaiting the government of Washington to solve other applications that we have delivered according to the procedure stipulated by the court," he told Univision News Esmeralda Flores, associated binational link to the ACLU.
In late August a group of six Mexican immigrants who had been deported and that qualify within an application that allows them to return to have their day in court, entered through the San Ysidro border crossing on the border between San Diego and Mexico .
In late August-San Diego ACLU had recorded about 1,500 cases of Mexicans affected by these deportations and that "only six" had been able to return. "The rest of the revenue depends on the answer give us the case manager," said Xiomara Corpeño Univision News, National Director of Education and Campaigns Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA, for their acronym), one of the plaintiffs."We estimate that affected other immigrant groups will be crossing in the coming weeks," Flores said.
The first group
The first group of deportees who returned to the United States consisted of Aroon Dominguez, Lucilla Serrano (who signed the voluntary departure in 2009), Estefany Castillo (deported in 2012 with 15 years of age) as well as Joseph, Robert and Martin, who they did not release their names.
The six immigrants were happy to be back with their families, confident that they will win their cases and that the immigration judge that meets their processes grant them permanent legal residence in the country.
"It was not easy to get the evidence to reach agreement," said Corpeño. "CHIRLA was one of the plaintiffs along with the ACLU. We were the organizations that work with immigrants who met and we realized the evidence of what was happening and turn to the courts to seek justice "
