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How Texas State Troopers Turn Routine Traffic Stops into Deportations
On February 11, Everardo Conejo-Barbosa and his brother, Juan Luis, were driving home from work on Interstate 35 when they saw a state trooper’s lights in the rearview. With Trump in the White House, and immigration agents all over town, they wondered if their time had come. It had. The brothers, unauthorized Mexican immigrants with clean criminal records, had lived in Austin for several years, working construction jobs to support their families in the Mexican state of Guanajuato.
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Having immigrated to the US legally, I can say that I understand why a lot of people choose to bypass the legal system. It takes a lot of time, effort, frustration, and money. Having said that, if you bypass it and go illegal, you can't complain if you get penalized for it. There has to at least be some incentive to do things legally.