After being wrongfully deported, a South Texas man and his family navigate realities of shifting immigration policies
The Texas Tribune reports:
“ Jaime Galvan Sanchez has lived in the U.S. for more than 20 years. He was deported in less than 24 hours without due process and allowed to return. But his family is still suffering from the aftermath.”
“ For most of her life, Geovanna Galvan didn’t worry that her parents, both undocumented farm workers in the Rio Grande Valley, would be deported. After President Donald Trump entered his second term in office, that changed. With a new pit in her stomach, she downloaded an app to track the location of her immediate family.
It didn’t take long for the app to prove useful. One afternoon in January — less than two weeks after Trump was inaugurated for his second term — Geovanna, 29, got a panicked call from her mother.
Geovanna’s father Jaime Galvan Sanchez, 48, had been working, driving a tractor down a road in the small town of Primera when a police officer pulled him over for obstructing the street. When Jaime couldn't produce identification, the officer called U.S. Border Patrol.
Because of the location-tracking app, Geovanna knew exactly where her father was. She rushed to the Border Patrol station in Harlingen with utility bills, property tax documents and copies of his children’s birth certificates — evidence that her father had been living in the country for decades. It was what her dad needed to prove he couldn’t be deported through a process called expedited removal, which bypasses a court hearing before an immigration judge. People who have been in the U.S. for more than two years are not subject to expedited removal unless they sign a document waiving their right to go to court.
She was sent away and told her father could call her later.”
Read the rest of this tragic story here:
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/31/texas-deported-mexico-illegal-return-immigration-galvan/
tRUMP’s “America” is not representative of the majority of our country. He is a convicted felon who led an unsuccessful insurrection against the lawful government. He should be in prison and he most certainly not be permitted to hold public office!
“ Jaime Galvan Sanchez has lived in the U.S. for more than 20 years. He was deported in less than 24 hours without due process and allowed to return. But his family is still suffering from the aftermath.”
“ For most of her life, Geovanna Galvan didn’t worry that her parents, both undocumented farm workers in the Rio Grande Valley, would be deported. After President Donald Trump entered his second term in office, that changed. With a new pit in her stomach, she downloaded an app to track the location of her immediate family.
It didn’t take long for the app to prove useful. One afternoon in January — less than two weeks after Trump was inaugurated for his second term — Geovanna, 29, got a panicked call from her mother.
Geovanna’s father Jaime Galvan Sanchez, 48, had been working, driving a tractor down a road in the small town of Primera when a police officer pulled him over for obstructing the street. When Jaime couldn't produce identification, the officer called U.S. Border Patrol.
Because of the location-tracking app, Geovanna knew exactly where her father was. She rushed to the Border Patrol station in Harlingen with utility bills, property tax documents and copies of his children’s birth certificates — evidence that her father had been living in the country for decades. It was what her dad needed to prove he couldn’t be deported through a process called expedited removal, which bypasses a court hearing before an immigration judge. People who have been in the U.S. for more than two years are not subject to expedited removal unless they sign a document waiving their right to go to court.
She was sent away and told her father could call her later.”
Read the rest of this tragic story here:
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/31/texas-deported-mexico-illegal-return-immigration-galvan/
tRUMP’s “America” is not representative of the majority of our country. He is a convicted felon who led an unsuccessful insurrection against the lawful government. He should be in prison and he most certainly not be permitted to hold public office!
