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‘I’m Taking A Certain Win’: CNN
Airs Segment About Family That Self-Deported
To Mexico Under Trump

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Posted By: franco, 7/18/2025 11:15:32 AM

CNN on Tuesday aired a segment about a family that chose to self-deport to Mexico from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, under President Donald Trump’s second administration. The Trump administration offers illegal immigrants who self-deport through the CBP Home app a free flight back to their home nation, a $1,000 stipend and forgiveness of any fines incurred for failing to follow through on a previous deportation order, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in June. On “Anderson Cooper 360,” CNN immigration correspondent Priscilla Alvarez reported the inside story of the family, which consists of an illegal immigrant Mexican father with a citizen wife and three children.

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One question for Mr. Mendoza: You and your American wife could have gotten married in Mexico, then returned to the U.S. with you having a resident alien Visa and a fast track to a Green Card. (That would have been a much bigger "win".) Instead, you *chose* to remain illegal. Why?

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 7/18/2025 11:34:33 AM (No. 1979248)
Good riddance.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: bpl40 7/18/2025 11:45:21 AM (No. 1979258)
He could have filed for a Green Card as the husband of US citizen. If ‘caught’ with 4 US citizens and a husband/father with green card application filed, I am quite certain they would not have the same fate as Abrego Garcia. To have such fear is irrational.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: itsonlyme 7/18/2025 11:45:51 AM (No. 1979259)
Another CNN sympathizer of ILLEGAL INVADERS with the last name ending in "ez".
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Reply 4 - Posted by: seamusm 7/18/2025 11:48:32 AM (No. 1979260)
They'll try again. But are we really supposed to feel sorry for a repentant sinner?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: slipstik 7/18/2025 12:47:36 PM (No. 1979295)
Only 13,000,000 more to go.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Catherine 7/18/2025 1:14:01 PM (No. 1979307)
OP - I read somewhere that illegals don't want to become legal because they would lose all their free benefits. That makes more sense than anything else I've read.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: anniebc 7/19/2025 7:42:09 AM (No. 1979489)
Some of these people have been here for decades. You can't have sympathy for them when they didn't care enough about the country they chose and stole their way into to become citizens. I recently saw a news piece where an anchor baby took her mom to the bus station or someplace to self-deport her decade long illegal behind. Her daughter said she decided to do so because she didn't want ICE coming to her home or her job. I saw another one with an illegal Mexican man who is married to an American and has been in the US for 30 years. The wife has two children (not the illegal's), and they are all moving to Mexico. They sold their car and household items, but shared that they will be living in a hut with a mud floor in Mexico. I've never seen homes like that on apartment.com or Zillow. They said the husband didn't go through the process of becoming legal because it was too expensive. Becoming illegal wasn't important enough for him to budget in 30 years? Boo hoo! I can't seem to find the strings that used to tug my heart.
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