By KATE MORRISSEY | The San Diego Union-Tribune | Published: February 1, 2021 SAN DIEGO (Tribune News Service) Rocio Rebollar Gomez’s life now might look familiar to those who have been staying at home during the pandemic. She spends most of her time in a Tijuana, Mexico, house, where she rents a room and tries to keep her small business alive through phone calls and social media. She only interacts with her children and grandchildren over video chats and Zoom. She spent her birthday in December on FaceTime. But Rebollar Gomez is not staying at home at least not in the place she thinks of as home. And her life in 2020 and beyond would likely have looked like this even without the pandemic.
Rocio Rebollar Gomez’s life now might look familiar to those who have been staying at home during the pandemic.
She spends most of her time in the Tijuana house, where she rents a room and tries to keep her small business alive through phone calls and social media. She only interacts with her children and grandchildren over video chats and Zoom.
She spent her birthday in December on FaceTime.
But Rebollar Gomez is not staying at home at least not in the place she thinks of as home. And her life in 2020 and beyond would likely have looked like this even without the pandemic.
By MATT FOUNTAIN | The Tribune | Published: January 27, 2021 SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (Tribune News Service) A family whose matriarch was deported to Mexico during the Trump Administration joined Central Coast Congressman Salud Carbajal Tuesday for an emotional news conference announcing a bill to grant residency to parents of U.S. service members. Promoting his bill introduced Monday, called the Protect Patriot Parents Act, Carbajal on Tuesday said in a Zoom conference that the parents of U.S. citizens who honorably serve their country should be granted permanent residency. The lawmaker had previously introduced the bill in 2019, but was unsuccessful. He said that the new Biden Administration and a Democratic-controlled Congress gives him confidence that the new bill which includes a welcome home clause that would grant temporary residency to immigrants during case proceedings will receive majority support.
Congressman Salud Carbajal reintroduces Protect Patriot Parents Act in legal quest for Goleta woman
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - A high-profile immigration case with ties to our community is in the hands of the Judiciary Committee. The Protect Patriot Parents Act was formally reintroduced to the 117th Congress Monday by Congressman Salud Carbajal.
If approved, it would give legal status to immigrant parents of U.S. military service members. Family s everything to us and to my mom, said Cesar Flores. To be reunited with my mom would mean everything. It would mean the world.
Flores, a staff sergeant with the U.S. Air Force, spoke publicly Tuesday via Zoom about his family s ongoing separation that began two years ago, this April.
U.S. service member s mother was deported. Salud Carbajal offers bill to prevent that Matt Fountain, The Tribune (San Luis Obispo, Calif.)
Jan. 26 A family whose matriarch was deported to Mexico during the Trump Administration joined Central Coast Congressman Salud Carbajal Tuesday for an emotional news conference announcing a bill to grant residency to parents of U.S. service members.
Promoting his bill introduced Monday, called the Protect Patriot Parents Act, Carbajal on Tuesday said in a Zoom conference that the parents of U.S. citizens who honorably serve their country should be granted permanent residency.
The lawmaker had previously introduced the bill in 2019, but was unsuccessful. He said that the new Biden Administration and a Democratic-controlled Congress gives him confidence that the new bill which includes a welcome home clause that would grant temporary residency to immigrants during case proceedings will receive majority support.