Live where you live, this is abc 7 news. I wish i dont have to leave my kids behind, but i really like to follow the law. This woman just doesnt seem fair. After years of trying to become a citizen and two decades in the bay area, her American Dream ends tonight with deportation. Good evening. Maria sanchez is scheduled to take off to mexico. She may not be able to come back to the u. S. For a long time. We are live at sfo with the story there tonight, katie . Reporter half the family on the last flight to mexico city to be the and the other half is here in the bay area, and it truly may be a long goodbye. Part of thes of the deportation . They cannot return to the u. S. For at least ten years. The sanchezs 15 year fight for the American Dream ended in deportation. Despite calls into the time hours from their oakland home. I pay taxes that i work, im not a burden for the community. Reporter Maria Sanchez applied for a green card in 2002 after following her husband to the United States
Live where you live, this is abc 7 news. I wish i dont have to leave my kids behind, but i really like to follow the law. This woman just doesnt seem fair. After years of trying to become a citizen and two decades in the bay area, her American Dream ends tonight with deportation. Good evening. Maria sanchez is scheduled to take off to mexico. She may not be able to come back to the u. S. For a long time. We are live at sfo with the story there tonight, katie . Reporter half the family on the last flight to mexico city to be the and the other half is here in the bay area, and it truly may be a long goodbye. Part of thes of the deportation . They cannot return to the u. S. For at least ten years. The sanchezs 15 year fight for the American Dream ended in deportation. Despite calls into the time hours from their oakland home. I pay taxes that i work, im not a burden for the community. Reporter Maria Sanchez applied for a green card in 2002 after following her husband to the United States
Part of thes of the deportation . They cannot return to the u. S. For at least ten years. The sanchezs 15 year fight for the American Dream ended in deportation. Despite calls into the time hours from their oakland home. I pay taxes that i work, im not a burden for the community. Reporter Maria Sanchez applied for a green card in 2002 after following her husband to the United States from mexico. I still went to school and work and work and work and paid for my education, my for my chirps education. They rallied behind the nurse monday. Senator feinstein tried to intervene. An immigration attorney explained theres no path for those somewhat enter illegally. Had they never sought to obtain a formal benefit, we wouldnt know the family existed. Reporter the sanchezs received deportation notice in 2012 but granted stays under the previous administration. Now the department of Homeland Security tells them if they approve a stay for me, that sends the wrong message to the rest of the communit