Groom, an illegal, gets busted by ICE. Ahh, no wedding this week
It's not nice to point and laugh at others' misfortunes. However, since this was an illegal who had zero rights to be here I'm not hands-off about it.
Have a nice wedding, in Mexico
But two days before Fernando Lara Flores, 26, was due to wed his fiancee, Lucia Rodriguez, at St. Cletus Parish in La Grange, he was taken into custody by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at O'Hare Airport while waiting to pick up his grandmother and father. They'd flown in from Guadalajara, Mexico, for the celebration.
While Chicago passed an immigrant sanctuary ordinance in 2006, O'Hare is under federal jurisdiction. Flores is now in a McHenry County federal detention center awaiting his fate.
"He's so scared right now," says his sister, 28-year-old Monica Lara, who has talked with Flores several times by phone. "He's so negative. He says he doesn't want anything. He just wants to go back to Mexico."
"I would like him to stay [in Chicago] because he paid for everything for his wedding," Lara says of her brother. "But if he's got to go back to Mexico, whatever. It's better.
"Everybody wants to go back to Mexico now," she adds, "because after this, we don't have to stay here." Good idea!!!
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