Father of 5, denied re-entry during immigration interview
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When Mary Blount Elementary students start school Tuesday, a familiar face will be missing from the halls: Vicente Saldana, who takes his three older daughters to school and walks them to their classrooms every day. Saldana, 36, was denied re-entry to the United States from Mexico on July 24, during the last step of a years-long process to rectify his undocumented immigration when he was 17. Now he and his wife, Alicia Wright, are stuck in Mexico with their infant daughter while they desperately seek a solution to reunite Saldana with their four daughters back home in Maryville. “I can’t raise five kids by myself,” Wright told The Daily Times on Friday in a telephone interview from Mexico. “How can they do this to our kids? He’s trying to make a past wrong right.” Saldana, who owns a custom painting business in Maryville, already has a legal tax ID and pays taxes, Wright said, and has been contributing to the community and the economy for years. The family traveled to Mexico voluntarily, on the advice of their immigration attorney in Florida, to complete the process of Saldana becoming a lawful permanent resident. What tripped up Saldana during the July 24 interview was the paperwork filed by his immigration attorney indicated he had entered the United States only once, in 1998. It did not list that he returned to Mexico in 2003 to attend his grandmother’s funeral, an omission Wright said was advised by their immigration attorney. “She helped raise him, and he wanted to say goodbye one last time; he felt he had to go,” Wright said of Saldana’s grandmother. “When it came up in the interview, he admitted to it, but it made our whole application look like a lie. The lawyers filled out the paperwork (that way).” Wright said their immigration attorney finally contacted them three days after Saldana was denied re-entry into the United States, but did not help them. “They said, ‘Oh, well. You took the risk. There’s nothing you can do. Just take your kids and move to Mexico,’” Wright said. That is not an idea Saldana and Wright want to entertain. “He feels so completely lost here,” Wright said. “He keeps saying, ‘This is not my home. My home is in Tennessee with my girls.’” The girls are Emma, 10; Annalise, 8; Heidi, 6; Rainbow, who will be 2 in August; and Dolly, 8 weeks, who Saldana insisted on naming after Dolly Parton, in part to honor her for her generosity to East Tennessee families after wildfires swept through Sevier County last fall. “My husband chose it,” Wright said, noting she wasn’t sold on the name Dolly. “Mexican men are known for being macho, but Vicente changes diapers, cleans the house, helps cook and clean. He does more than most.” In addition to caring for his own five children, Saldana plays a special role with his wife’s 10-year-old sister who has Down syndrome and other health problems including Alopecia areata, a common autoimmune skin disease that causes hair loss. “When Lucy was diagnosed with Alopecia last year, my husband shaved her bald and then shaved his own head,” Wright said. “He’s her favorite person.” Wright’s mother, Judy Saldana of Maryville, agreed. “There are things that she won’t let anyone else do for her,” said Judy Saldana, who married Saldana’s uncle in 2002, which is when she met her future son-in-law. Saldana and Wright also are active in the special needs community in Maryville, where Wright teaches dance to individuals with disabilities through the nonprofit Sunshine Ambassadors Inc. Saldana once rescued the group’s Christmas dance party, said family friend Amy Howard, by loading up the disc jockey and his equipment after his car broke down, driving the DJ to the party and driving him home afterwards. “He’s not just a wonderful dad and husband; he would help anyone at any moment,” Wright said. Now Saldana and Wright are reaching out to others for help, from the three members of their local congressional delegation to the White House. Staff for Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and U.S. Rep. Jimmy Duncan, R-Tenn., told The Daily Times on Friday they are aware of the situation, but not allowed to discuss constituent matters because they are confidential. Wright said she had been told their best shot would be to apply for “humanitarian parole.” They already have proven hardship in their immigration paperwork, she said, by documenting their 8-year-old daughter’s sensory disorder. “She would not adjust to moving to Mexico,” Wright said, detailing the various challenges Annalise has faced. “She had such a hard time adjusting to our move two minutes away from our single-wide trailer to a house. She cried and cried and cried and kept saying, ‘I want to go home.’ I really worry about her.” Another issue would be with Lucy. “My little sister won’t be able to live on her own (as she gets older), and we are my mom’s only support,” Wright said. “She couldn’t survive in Mexico without her medical care.” Going into the weekend with their future uncertain, Wright and her mother were spreading the word about Saldana’s situation via social media, asking folks to tweet President Donald J. Trump using the hashtag #bringvicentesaldanahome in hopes that he will see it personally. A staffer on the White House comment line also advised Wright to have supporters call the White House daily at 202-456-1111 and send emails daily through the form available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ “to get the attention it needs to be seen by President Trump,” Wright wrote on Facebook. “We’ve had such an outpouring of support from the community,” Wright said. “This is what Tennessee is about. We are Tennessee people.” Meanwhile, a petition available at https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pet...e-saldana-home needs 100,000 signatures in 30 days to receive an official response from the White House within 60 days, according to the website. “Our ultimate goal is to try to be seen by the president,” Wright said. “That may be our only hope.” |
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Originally Posted by JohannBernoulli1667
So what is the reasoning? That he lied on the application?
Don't most applications ask you for your last entry into the U.S? |
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Need more information. Why did he travel to Mexico? He should be able to file for I-601A and wait in the States. He only needs to go back to Mexico to interview about his marriage, not all the other stuffs. Bad lawyer?
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His immigration lawyers advice him to not write on his application his last entry into the US from 2003, only mentioning the 1998 entry. So in his interview, immigration already knew about his 2003 entry and asked him in which he responded honestly and that cost him considering it said otherwise in his application under the advice of his immigration lawyers.
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So, he left in 2003. He came back. He was EWI from the beginning I am assuming so why would it have mattered.
My understanding is that he triggered the 10 year ban when he left. He came back but the 10 year ban I believe keeps counting even if you are in the U.S.
He would have had no problem adjusting... if he told the truth.
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My reasoning is that how would that have affected anything...
So, he left in 2003. He came back. He was EWI from the beginning I am assuming so why would it have mattered. My understanding is that he triggered the 10 year ban when he left. He came back but the 10 year ban I believe keeps counting even if you are in the U.S. He would have had no problem adjusting... if he told the truth. |
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All those are good questions, but I think the case here is that immigration considered his application a lie, since he only mentioned his 1998 entry and failed to mention his 2003 entry. Him being denied re-entry had nothing to do with the 10 year ban.
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He can get enough money to live a comfortable life in Mexico. The question is, is he inadmissible now? forever?
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Well, either way, he should sue the lawyer for the damages. Is it possible?
He can get enough money to live a comfortable life in Mexico. The question is, is he inadmissible now? forever? |
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The lawyers have been cold so far telling them they knew the risk and advising the wife to move to Mexico with him. Hopefully they can find a solution and get him back home.
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