Original version from Mundo Hispanico ) Spanish language newspaper owned by the AJC and close to being actual journalism) HERE.

The 2007 were a year record in expulsion of undocumented people

In the shade of the deportation

By Pretty Carolina Perez
04/10/2008

Ever since her sister was catched to lead without license and later sent to Mexico like part in an agreement of voluntary exit, Dolores Medina assures that she has become more careful at the time of going out.

Its fear is that, like a her sister, the jail separates it of her children.

“exemplary Aunt”

. For more than three months the Mexican Dolores Medina became position of the children of her sister, to whom they granted voluntary exit to him of the country after being stopped by the migratory authorities.

“It is a very sad situation. For that reason I feel that I must be more careful “, said Medina.

Its preoccupation is also based on the number of deported and people who returned voluntarily to their country during fiscal year 2007.

In that period, that finished in the month of September, 280 thousand undocumented people were expelled from the country, according to the Service of Immigration and Customs (HE HOISTS, by his abbreviations in English), a number record in the history of this agency that initiated workings in 2003.

Particularly in Georgia, Carolina of Norte and Carolina of the South, the deportations of undocumented people were duplicated during the last one

fiscal year.

According to civil employees of IT HOISTS, the increase of arrests and deportations in Georgia it must to an intensification in the activity of the equipment search of fugitive in the area, in addition to the application of a series of focused local measures in illegal immigration.

Agents of the State Patrol of Georgia, the Bureau of Investigations of Georgia and Investigadores of the Department on watch to Conductors have been trained to initiate processes of

deportation.

Also agents of the Office of the Bailiff of the County of Cobb received this qualification and from July of the last year they began to deport undocumented people. This year the counties of Hall and Whitfield were added to the list of local agencies that have the power to initiate proceedings of deportation in their jails.

It was indeed in Cobb where the sister of Medina was stopped. By more of a month it was shut in in the jail of the county and soon it was transferred to the center of haltings in Gadsen, Alabama.

Finally, and thanks to the aid of his family and members of the catholic church Santo Tomás the Apostol de Smyrna, the sister of Medina managed to meet with his children

in Mexico.

According to the Mexican housewife, so far her sister does not have plans to return, because it was affected very with the situation.

With information of Jeremy Schwartz.

IN NUMBERS

186 thousand undocumented people were deported in fiscal year 2006

280 thousand undocumented people were deported of the U.S.A. in fiscal year 2007

40 thousands of those immigrants signed voluntary exit

5 thousand 187 people were deported of Georgia, Carolina of Norte and Carolina of the South in fiscal year 2006

10 thousand 925 people were deported of Georgia, Carolina of Norte and Carolina of the South in fiscal year 2007

25 % both increased the flow of Mexican deported by authorities of the U.S.A. in first months of 2008, in comparison with the same period the last year.

Source: USCIS and National Institute of Migration

of Mexico.

ADVICE:

1 Lleve always an identification with its real information. It does not use an identification, names or deception, this is a crime that can entail jail.

2 Loading the telephone numbers of its lawyer, consulate, the school of its children and their relatives.

3 Guarde money in a safe place to use it in the payment of the guarantee (if it has right her) or in another cost of emergency.

4 Designe to a relative or close friend like in charge of its children and goods. Make a permission notarized to authorize this person to gather his children of the school or to take them to his country.

5 Also it can authorize to somebody to sell or to rent his house, or to demand a check of payment of the work. Déjele to this person a copy of the keys of its car.

6 Hable with its family and explíqueles how to act in case that some is stopped during a cast or operative police officer. Glide to what lawyer must call and where they are going to keep the most important documents (birth certificates of its children, registries of property of the house or the car, etc.).

7 Lleve always with you money in cash, in special, currencies of 25 cents, that can serve to him to make calls.

8 Tramite the passport of its children.

9 it does not keep anything illegal in his house, like a weapon without permission or drugs. It does not live either with people whom that suspects or knows they have illicit things, because you can fall by them.

10 Mantenga available its banking information. The deported people do not lose the rights to their banking deposits, you you have straight absolute on their money without concerning their location.

With information of Pretty Perez

and Alexander Calderón