Politically Charged/Election Amplified Long Beach City Council Item Seeks Deportation-Relief For Dad / Illegal Immigrant Pulled Over @ CSULB For Broken Headlight, Deported To Mexico For 20+ Yr Old Drug Conviction, Separated From His Family Incl. Son Who Served in US Marines

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Nov. 15 update: Council votes 5-3 (Price, Supernaw, Mungo dissenting, co-agendizer Gonzalez absent) to approve.

(November 12, 2016, 2:50 p.m.) -- A politically charged Long Beach City Council item -- amplified by the Nov. 8 election outcome that made Donald Trump President-elect -- seeks to put Los Angeles County's second largest city on record as supporting deportation-relief for a man who roughly 40 years ago illegally entered the U.S., took up residence, recently started a business and in February 2016 was on his way to pick up his son when CSULB police stopped him for a broken headlight.

That turned up his conviction roughly twenty years earlier on a federal drug offense [third party news story indicates conviction for possession/transportation of crystal meth with three and a half year prison sentence] drawing the attention of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) which swiftly deported him to Mexico.

The outcome has separated Jose Alvarez from his family, including his six children who were born in the U.S. and are thus U.S. citizens (dubbed by some as "anchor babies"), one of whom served in the U.S. Marines.

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The Long Beach City Council item -- originally scheduled for Nov. 1 (one week before the election) by Councilman Roberto Uranga, joined by Councilmembers Lena Gonzalez and Jeannine Pearce, was announced as withdrawn (without public explanation) by Mayor Garcia at the start of the Nov. 1 Council meeting. The item is now re-agendized for the November 15 Council meeting accompanied by the following agendizing memo text from Councilmembers Uranga, Gonzalez and Pearce:

[Uranga/Gonzalez/Pearce agendizing memo text] Request that City Attorney to draft a resolution in support of Humanitarian Parole for Jose Luis Alvarez Sandoval, DHS Case # A 92812968.
BACKGROUND:
On February 21,2016, Mr. Jose Alvarez was on his way to pick up his son, Victor Alvarez, when he was stopped by California State University Long Beach Police for a broken headlight. During the course of that traffic stop, Mr. Alvarez was referred to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) due to a more-than 20-year-old non-violent drug offense on his record, and subsequently transferred and deported that same evening.
While in the United States, Mr. Alvarez lived in Long Beach, California. He owned and operated his own business. Mr. Alvarez is the proud father of six children, who are all United States citizens, including his son Jorge Luis Alvarez, who served our Country as a member of the United States Marines. Mr. Alvarez's deportation has separated him from his wife and children for whom he was the primary economic provider and has forced his son, Victor, to drop out of school to help provide for the family.
In our community, Mr. Alvarez's deportation has created a sense of insecurity for undocumented students and students with mixed status families at California State University Long Beach. In response, the University adopted General Order 55 to clarify that campus police should not engage in enforcement of federal immigration laws.
Mr. Alvarez and his family have petitioned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for a grant of Humanitarian Parole to allow him to reunite with his family. The City of Long Beach is home to immigrants and refugees from many parts of the world, and we recognize the contributions that immigrants have made to the economic, social, and cultural well-being of the City. I hereby support the effort to acquire Humanitarian Parole and return Jose Luis Alvarez to his waiting family.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no fiscal impact.

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From a federal standpoint, Mr. Alvarez is a convicted drug trafficker...and thus far, the Obama administration has apparently treated him as such. Concerning Humanitarian Parole, the Obama administration's Department of Customs and Immigration Services website states in pertinent part:

[USCIS webpage text] Humanitarian parole is used sparingly to bring someone who is otherwise inadmissible into the United States for a temporary period of time due to a compelling emergency.
USCIS may grant parole temporarily:
To anyone applying for admission into the United States based on urgent humanitarian reasons or if there is a significant public benefit
For a period of time that corresponds with the length of the emergency or humanitarian situation

Parolees must depart the United States before the expiration of their parole. You may submit a request for reparole, which must be approved by USCIS. Parole does not grant any immigration benefits.
Requirements for Parole
Anyone can file an application for humanitarian parole.
You may file an application for parole if you cannot obtain the necessary admission documents from the Department of State
You cannot use parole to avoid normal visa-issuing procedures or to bypass immigration procedures. As noted above, there must be an urgent humanitarian reason or significant public benefit for the parole to be granted
To see if you can obtain the necessary admission documents from the Department of State, see the "Department of State Visa Information" on the right [of the webpage.]

Candidate Trump's statements about illegal immigration from Mexico are a matter of record but until the Trump administration takes charge, one can only speculate on how it might handle the specifics of Mr. Alvarez's circumstances.

A third party news account indicates that this is Mr. Alvarez's third deportation; the first came in the 1970s shortly after his arrival in the U.S.; a second occurred in 1999 at the end of his federal prison term.

The story of Mr. Alvarez's deportation was initially reported (including follow-up coverage) by the CSULB's Daily49er.com [initial story link unavailable/incomplete URL.]

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