Update on the ICE deportation of fallen soldier's widower

Jose Arturo Gonzalez Carranza's deportation was quickly reversed by ICE. Michael Chow, Arizona Republic

He said he was then driven back to Phoenix where ICE officials dropped him off at the agency's headquarters near downtown.

ICE officials offered no explanation for the decision to allow Gonzalez Carranza to return to the U.S. But Hernandez believes the reversal was triggered by media attention the deportation received.

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Gonzalez Carranza said he came to the U.S. illegally from Veracruz, Mexico, in 2004, when he was a teenager. He said he and Vieyra married in 2007.

After his wife was killed in Afghanistan, Gonzalez Carranza was granted what is known as parole in place, which allows immigrants in the country illegally to remain in the U.S. without the threat of deportation, Hernandez said.

An immigration judge then terminated deportation proceedings against Gonzalez Carranza based on the parole in place, Hernandez said.

However, ICE refiled the case in 2018, Hernandez said.

A judge ordered Gonzalez Carranza deported in December 2018 after Gonzalez Carranza didn't show up for his court hearing, Hernandez said.

But the reason Gonzalez Carranza didn't show up is because he never received the notice, Hernandez said. He said ICE sent it to the wrong address.

Gonzalez Carranza didn't find out a judge had ordered him deported until ICE officers came to his house last Monday and took him into custody, Hernandez said.

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Gonzalez Carranza said he was eager to see his daughter, who lives with her grandparents.

He said he had not told her he had been deported because he was afraid she would be further traumatized after the loss of her mother.

Reached by phone earlier Monday in Nogales, Gonzalez Carranza said he had been living in a shelter for deported migrants in Nogales, Mexico, a city he didn't know, and was worried about his daughter, Evelyn Gonzalez Vieyra, a U.S. citizen.

  Arizona Central

ICE deserves no credit. They're doing terrible things and getting away with it. Because they correct something when it becomes widely known is not to their credit.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.