Four days after a group of 30 undocumented immigrants tried to cross the Mexico-US border through a bridge in San Diego, the daughter of one of the immigrants confirmed that her father was deported to Mexico last Tuesday.
Dolores Lara, one of the immigrants who last Monday hoped to obtain political asylum or humanitarian visas was deported on Tuesday by immigration authorities, two years after the Safe Communities program denied him permission to live in the country in 2011, according to Mexican newspaper Milenio.
Elizabeth Lara, Dolores' daughter, an illegal resident of the U.S., shared through social networks that her father is the only one of the 29 detainees that were deported to Mexico, while the others remain detained.
"They're all arrested, except for my dad. My dad was deported this morning. We were prepared for the possibility that this was going to happen, but he still wanted to risk coming back home and being with us," wrote Elizabeth, according to the quoted source.
21-year-old Elizabeth told The Huffington Post that her sister Jessica, born in the United States was able to accompany her father to Mexico, while she waited on the American side.
"He decided to take that risk because he wanted to be with her daughters, with us. I was hopeful that my little sister would come home with him. I called and talked to my sister before they crossed to ask how she felt, and she said that she was excited and ready to come back home with dad," said the young woman in tears.
It's estimated that more than 100 immigrants try to cross the border legally as a part of the campaign "Bring Them Home", which seeks to protest against immigration policies in the US and allow people who have been deported to return to their families.