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Juana Flores to Return to Goleta and will be reunited with her family
–This week, Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) announced that the Department of Homeland Security has granted Central Coast community member Juana Flores humanitarian parole. After being deported to Mexico two years ago, she will now be reunited with her family.
“After two long years apart, the Flores family will finally be reunited,” said Rep. Carbajal. “Juana’s deportation under the Trump Administration left a hole in our Central Coast community that I’m glad will now be filled. I thank the Biden administration for granting her humanitarian parole, which means she can return to her community and be present in the lives of her children and grandchildren. However, I will continue fighting to secure a permanent stay for Juana and reunite other families that were cruelly separated under the Trump administration. The families of our service members deserve our respect and admiration, not deportation,
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He said his bill would specifically assist parents of servicemembers who are in the same circumstance as the Flores family. It reminds our nation that immigrants of this country, in particularl those who volunteer to serve in our United States military to protect our freedoms, our Constitution and our democracy, shouldn t have to have the added stress for those who have parents who are undocumented, to be fearful that their parents are going to be deported, as Juana Flores was. What a contradiction and a hypocrisy.
Councilwoman Harmon brought her daughter, Mara, to the stage with her to speak.
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.