The wife of Pfc.Guillermo Garcia, U.S. Army, Araceli Mercado Sanchez, is currently facing deportation after being stopped for a making an illegal turn to avoid a construction zone. At the time she was on her way to buy supplies for the couple's three-year-old daughter's birthday party. After being encountered she was taken into custody and brought to Eloy jail where apparently she was held for days. Deportation proceedings have been instituted against Ms. Sanchez who is 22. She was brought to the United States as a 4-year-old child, and has no criminal record.
Pfc. Garcia is currently stationed in Germany with the 2nd Cavalry Regiment. He is awaiting imminent deployment. Garcia enlisted in the Army in part because he believed that it would help his wife's immigration status, and he has been working with lawyers to try to fix the problem. The couple has been married for four years.
Garcia responds:
“I feel outraged that my wife and daughter had to go through something like this. I am a United States Army infantry man legally married to my wife and she presented evidence to the officer that pulled her over to show just that and was still detained. It happened on my daughter's 3rd Birthday while on her way to pick up paper plates for the party that was planned for that afternoon.”
It appears that once the news hit the papers Garcia's wife was released.
Wouldn't want any bad press in an election year.
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