A man delivering pizza to an army base in New York was detained by military police officers and is now awaiting deportation. While his story is sad, I can’t muster much sympathy for him and here’s why:
MY FOX 8 – An undocumented New York City man is facing deportation after he delivered pizza to an Army base in Brooklyn and leaders in the borough are now doing all they can to keep him with his family.
“They treated me like a criminal. I did not commit a crime,” Pablo Villavicencio said in Spanish.
He spoke to WPIX from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in New Jersey.
“My daughters need me,” he said. “My wife needs me.”
His family said Villavicencio could be deported as early as next week.
Villavicencio said he was delivering pizza, as he has done countless times before, to the Fort Hamilton Army Base on June 1. He said he showed his New York State identification card at the security gate and was allowed inside.
But when he reached the delivery address, he said, he was confronted by another officer and asked to show another form of identification which he did not have.
Villavicencio said he was detained by military officers, one of whom called ICE. Since then, he has not seen his family.
“In one day your life changed,” his wife Sandra Chica said. “Now, I’m alone with two kids.”
Though he has no criminal record, Villavicencio did come to the U.S. illegally from Ecuador in 2008.
In 2010, according to ICE, he was granted voluntary departure. He was ordered to leave the country by July of that year. He never did. His wife said they filed a petition challenging that order.
The couple married five years ago and this year Villavicencio applied for his green card.
“Every time he called, he’s just crying asking me about them,” his wife said. “He’s very worried what’s going to happen with us.”
ICE released a statement to WPIX, which explains why he was detained:
“Pablo Villavicencio-Calderon is an illegally present citizen and national of Ecuador. In March 2010, he was granted voluntary departure by an immigration judge, but failed to depart by July 2010 as ordered. As such, his voluntary departure order became a final order of removal and is an ICE fugitive. On June 1, Villavicencio-Calderon was detained by military police officers and turned over to ICE. He remains in ICE custody pending removal.”
I don’t know why Pablo came here illegally in the first place from Ecuador in ’08, but the truth is Obama should have deported him in 2010 instead of letting him go. That was the first mistake.
The second mistake was that Pablo was ordered to voluntarily leave the country and he refused, making him an ICE fugitive.
Then he got married in 2013, started a family, and now it’s all catching up to him.
So yeah, I’m sure they think Trump is the bad guy. But in reality, it’s Obama’s lax policies on illegals that didn’t do this guy any favors.
And while I do have sympathy for his children, I can’t find much in my heart for this guy. He’s done this to himself and he deserves to be deported.