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Flight attendant, a DACA recipient, released by ICE

Rogue Valley

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Flight attendant, a DACA recipient, released by ICE

The flight attendant put Mexico and Canada on her “no fly” list “very intentionally” when she was hired by Mesa Airlines, her husband said.

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Selene Saavedra Roman in a 2018 photo taken by her husband David Watkins.

3/22/19
AUSTIN, Texas — A Mesa Airlines flight attendant, who as a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipient is barred from traveling outside the United States under the Trump administration's rules, was released from immigration detention Friday after being taken into custody when she returned to the U.S. on a flight from Mexico that she had worked. Selene Saavedra Roman, 28, who works for the regional airline based in Phoenix, walked out of the immigration facility Friday evening dragging her Mesa-issued flight bags, according to a representative for the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA who went to meet her and her attorney. She had been held for more than a month. Mesa erroneously reassured Roman that she could fly to Mexico. But she was taken into custody Feb. 12, upon landing at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston and placed in immigration detention in Conroe, Texas.

Shortly after NBC News reported Saavedra Roman’s detention, news came of her pending release. Her husband, David Watkins, said in a phone call with reporters that Saavedra Roman had contacted him Friday afternoon as news of her detention spread. “I got the call. She was crying and she said, ‘Please come get me. They are going to release me,'" Watkins said. He was still on his way to pick her up when she was released. Originally from Peru, Saavedra Roman is enrolled in DACA, the Obama administration program that allows her to remain legally in the country and work. Saavedra Roman is married to a U.S. citizen and is in the process of applying for legal residency status, but Arroyo said the federal government had threatened to revoke her DACA status while she was in custody. Saavedra Roman has had DACA since 2012, when it first became available to young immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children and who met certain criteria. Saavedra is a graduate of Texas A&M, like Watkins, and she has no criminal history. She arrived in the U.S. at age 3, the flight attendants association said in its petition.
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ICE should be arresting M13 gang members, not a DACA Flight Attendant who has been here for 25 years, earned a university degree here and married here.

Related: Airline, Union Tell ICE to Release Their Flight Attendant
 
Rogue Valley said:
Flight attendant, a DACA recipient, released by ICE

The flight attendant put Mexico and Canada on her “no fly” list “very intentionally” when she was hired by Mesa Airlines, her husband said.

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Selene Saavedra Roman in a 2018 photo taken by her husband David Watkins.



ICE should be arresting M13 gang members, not a DACA Flight Attendant who has been here for 25 years, earned a university degree here and married here.

Related: Airline, Union Tell ICE to Release Their Flight Attendant
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But she shouldn't be here. She has brown skin and she might even be Catholic! The next thing you know she will be applying for food stamps and welfare. Also, there is a good chance she's a violent Marxist rapist. I'll bet she even speaks Spanish in public. God help us.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Flight attendant, a DACA recipient, released by ICE

The flight attendant put Mexico and Canada on her “no fly” list “very intentionally” when she was hired by Mesa Airlines, her husband said.

190322-selene-saavedra-roman-al-1436_98b0a1d06748fa5047cd2080b5af917d.fit-2000w.jpg

Selene Saavedra Roman in a 2018 photo taken by her husband David Watkins.



ICE should be arresting M13 gang members, not a DACA Flight Attendant who has been here for 25 years, earned a university degree here and married here.

Related: Airline, Union Tell ICE to Release Their Flight Attendant
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Her parents brought her here illegally to be born as a political pawn. They are the first to blame - the "original sin" as they say. Then we have congress who refuses to address illegal immigration at all. So the only way to control our borders is to fight federal judges with EO's, or just start deporting all but the DACA's and use that pressure to demand congress get busy and fix it.

Nothing will happen until Trumps second term because the democrats need the issue. Hell, the R's couldn't get it done when they controlled both houses. So the best course of action is to start deporting illegals and the one's on the way will get the idea and in addition to that institute E Verify, nationally.

As we move to more and more AI, we need less and less unskilled labor, not more. There are agricultural programs that work, also.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Flight attendant, a DACA recipient, released by ICE

The flight attendant put Mexico and Canada on her “no fly” list “very intentionally” when she was hired by Mesa Airlines, her husband said.

190322-selene-saavedra-roman-al-1436_98b0a1d06748fa5047cd2080b5af917d.fit-2000w.jpg

Selene Saavedra Roman in a 2018 photo taken by her husband David Watkins.



ICE should be arresting M13 gang members, not a DACA Flight Attendant who has been here for 25 years, earned a university degree here and married here.

Related: Airline, Union Tell ICE to Release Their Flight Attendant
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They've been arresting lots of MS13 gang members. This story doesn't change that. They'd be arresting more criminals if liberals weren't giving them aid and sanctuary.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Flight attendant, a DACA recipient, released by ICE

The flight attendant put Mexico and Canada on her “no fly” list “very intentionally” when she was hired by Mesa Airlines, her husband said.

190322-selene-saavedra-roman-al-1436_98b0a1d06748fa5047cd2080b5af917d.fit-2000w.jpg

Selene Saavedra Roman in a 2018 photo taken by her husband David Watkins.



ICE should be arresting M13 gang members, not a DACA Flight Attendant who has been here for 25 years, earned a university degree here and married here.

Related: Airline, Union Tell ICE to Release Their Flight Attendant
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It’s irrelevant, part of DACA is you cannot leave the country, DACA itself is illegal as Obama had no statutory authority to issue work permits.

But regardless she voluntarily left the country, and surrendered her status, and don’t act that sorry, Peruvian citizens have a legal right to work in Chile or Brazil where American university education is highly valued. Also it simply doesn’t matter how many MS-13 members there are, anyone here illegally is subject to removal. There are rapists and murderers, people still get stopped for speeding and DUI.
 
EMNofSeattle said:
It’s irrelevant, part of DACA is you cannot leave the country, DACA itself is illegal as Obama had no statutory authority to issue work permits.

But regardless she voluntarily left the country, and surrendered her status, and don’t act that sorry, Peruvian citizens have a legal right to work in Chile or Brazil where American university education is highly valued. Also it simply doesn’t matter how many MS-13 members there are, anyone here illegally is subject to removal. There are rapists and murderers, people still get stopped for speeding and DUI.
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Clearly the courts disagree with you. And also she was misled into leaving the country. Why are you so against people like her staying in the US? She is well educated, employed, and working towards legal residency and most likely citizenship.
 
veritas1 said:
They've been arresting lots of MS13 gang members. This story doesn't change that. They'd be arresting more criminals if liberals weren't giving them aid and sanctuary.
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Maybe they would also be arresting more gang members if they weren't wasting so much time on productive residents with DACA production.
 
Carjosse said:
Clearly the courts disagree with you. And also she was misled into leaving the country. Why are you so against people like her staying in the US? She is well educated, employed, and working towards legal residency and most likely citizenship.
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I am against anyone who illegally entered our country staying here because once you grant the premise that an illegal can earn their way out of their status then you open floodgates to uncontrolled migration. It’s easier just to say no in all cases and not worry about specifics. I generally do not support lowering or increasing penalty because the individual is a good or worthy person, the sentence should be the sentence.

She was not misled by her employer, she chose to take a job dispatch for money, it’s her responsibility to know that as a Peruvian citizen she needs a visa to enter the US and a work visa to work. Her employer is not an immigration law firm and she needed to refuse the dispatch and be ready to quit and take another job if they won’t take her off it

Yes we unfortunately have a lot of Obama hold over judges who affirm feeling over the law, it’s being corrected by Trump who’s the most active judge appointer of recent history.
 
EMNofSeattle said:
I am against anyone who illegally entered our country staying here because once you grant the premise that an illegal can earn their way out of their status then you open floodgates to uncontrolled migration. It’s easier just to say no in all cases and not worry about specifics. I generally do not support lowering or increasing penalty because the individual is a good or worthy person, the sentence should be the sentence.

She was not misled by her employer, she chose to take a job dispatch for money, it’s her responsibility to know that as a Peruvian citizen she needs a visa to enter the US and a work visa to work.

Yes we unfortunately have a lot of Obama hold over judges who affirm feeling over the law, it’s being corrected by Trump who’s the most active judge appointer of recent history.
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So in other words you just like to ignore the reality of the situation like you always do.
 
Carjosse said:
So in other words you just like to ignore the reality of the situation like you always do.
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No, I’m actually using objective reality and not subjective feeling.

No part of the immigration code says you are exempt if you reach a certain level of education. In fact it would be highly discriminatory to do so.
 
Carjosse said:
Maybe they would also be arresting more gang members if they weren't wasting so much time on productive residents with DACA production.
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Naturally, there is no evidence that they are wasting a lot of time on such people. I notice you avoided the point about sanctuary cities and the policies which they follow.
 
Carjosse said:
Clearly the courts disagree with you. And also she was misled into leaving the country. Why are you so against people like her staying in the US? She is well educated, employed, and working towards legal residency and most likely citizenship.
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How was she misled? She knew she couldn't leave the country. She did it anyway.
 
Carjosse said:
Maybe they would also be arresting more gang members if they weren't wasting so much time on productive residents with DACA production.
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ICE didn’t arrest her, she showed up at an airport from an out of country flight as a Peruvian national with no visa and no right to enter the US, she probably asserted her DACA status which means she was taken into custody at the airport instead of being placed on a flight leaving the US to the country she came from which is standard procedure. ICE only held her in custody, They didn’t find and arrest her
 
Rogue Valley said:
Flight attendant, a DACA recipient, released by ICE

The flight attendant put Mexico and Canada on her “no fly” list “very intentionally” when she was hired by Mesa Airlines, her husband said.

190322-selene-saavedra-roman-al-1436_98b0a1d06748fa5047cd2080b5af917d.fit-2000w.jpg

Selene Saavedra Roman in a 2018 photo taken by her husband David Watkins.



ICE should be arresting M13 gang members, not a DACA Flight Attendant who has been here for 25 years, earned a university degree here and married here.

Related: Airline, Union Tell ICE to Release Their Flight Attendant
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Ummmmmmmmmm, even your own link says ICE released her. Is this really the best you've got?
 
Carjosse said:
Her employer convinced her it would have no impact.
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Guy, I work in a highly regulated job where employers will tell me to do illegal things, if you choose to do that you are still liable for the consequences
 
Carjosse said:
Maybe they would also be arresting more gang members if they weren't wasting so much time on productive residents with DACA production.
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The government is working very hard to get ahead of the curve. It's only a matter of time before most flight attendants in the US will be MS-13 members. :shock:
 
Interesting that they released her within 18 hours of a petition being launched and the case being publicized on social media.
 
BlueTex said:
Interesting that they released her within 18 hours of a petition being launched and the case being publicized on social media.
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Strange how that works huh?
 
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