Husband of Deported Woman Speaks Out.
CAMEROTA: A mother of two -- two children, who were born in the U.S., in Arizona, has been deported to Mexico. Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos has lived in America as an undocumented immigrant since the mid '90s when she was brought here as a child. In 2008, authorities convicted her of using a fake Social Security Number. Each year, since then, she would check in with immigration officials. And when she checked in last week, they deported her. Joining us now is Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos' husband, who does not want to be identified by name, and their attorney Ray Maldonado. Thank you, gentlemen, for being here. Guadalupe's husband, I want to start with you. What happened last week? Explain what happened when your wife went to check in, as she regularly did, with immigration officials.</s>GUADALUPE GARCIA DE RAYOS' HUSBAND: Well, she went Wednesday, as every year, just to do a normal check-in with I.C.E. For the past eight years she's been doing the same thing, checking in with them and with no problem. What changed last Wednesday is they decided to arrest her and then deport her.</s>CAMEROTA: Mr. Maldonado --</s>RAY MALDONADO, ATTORNEY FOR GUADALUPE GARCIA DE RAYOS: Yes.</s>CAMEROTA: Explain what happened. Why this happened. Because, again, here is a woman who was brought here at 14 years old through no choice of her own by her parents. She has two U.S.-born children. The Trump administration has always said that they would prioritize the murders, the rapist, not the people who were law-abiding, hardworking people. What was Guadalupe's crime?</s>MALDONADO: Yes, her crime was trying to provide a better life for her children than she had growing up. If you're undocumented in this community, you essentially have to use a fake Social Security Number. She was arrested in one of the unconstitutional raids by our notorious former sheriff here, Joe Arpaio. As a result of that, she was given a criminal conviction. Now under the Trump administration, under these new executive orders, she's a priority for deportation. Essentially anybody who has even been arrested for a crime before now falls within the net of a priority for deportation. And we have to be very careful about these new executive orders from President Trump.</s>CAMEROTA: To Guadalupe's husband, how old are your children?</s>GUADALUPE GARCIA DE RAYOS' HUSBAND: My son is 16, my daughter is 14.</s>CAMEROTA: What are they -- how are they experiencing this family tumultuous situation that happened last week?</s>GUADALUPE GARCIA DE RAYOS' HUSBAND: Well, they're heartbroken. You know they're -- you can see in them -- they're strong, but inside we're heartbroken. You know, it is -- I can't even explain how it is to be -- to be without my wife, go in the house and see the house empty without her. It's really hard.</s>CAMEROTA: And your children have been able to see her?</s>GUADALUPE GARCIA DE RAYOS' HUSBAND: Yes, they were with her when she got deported to Novales (ph). They spent a couple of days with her before she went back to her hometown, or where she was born. I shouldn't say hometown because it is not really her hometown.</s>CAMEROTA: Yes. And so what does this mean? I mean what does -- will the children have to cross the border and go to Mexico to be with their mother? What does this mean as you understand it for your future?</s>GUADALUPE GARCIA DE RAYOS' HUSBAND: I mean if nothing gets fixed, basically, yes, that's what it is. They have to like cross the border to a different country to see their mom.</s>CAMEROTA: And what have they told you about that?</s>GUADALUPE GARCIA DE RAYOS' HUSBAND: Well, we haven't really talked much because they left as soon as their mom got deported. So we haven't really talked about that. But I mean it's really hard. They're really strong. I admire their -- how strong they are, but inside -- inside we're really heartbroken. It is really unfair. Like this is -- this is really -- this is really sad, you know.</s>CAMEROTA: Mr. Maldonado, I know that you've said that you believe that women like Guadalupe are now the priority for the Trump administration, but that's just very different than what we've heard. She's not a hardened criminal. She's not a violent criminal. Why is she the first?</s>MALDONADO: Well, I think that's what's so dangerous about these new executive orders. They put into the priority essentially anybody who is here undocumented. Our community could possibly be facing one of the biggest mass deportations in the history of the United States if President Trump follows through in what he's written in his executive orders. This is the first deportation under President Trump's executive orders, but there could be hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people just like this family we're looking at right now that could be suffering in the very near future if we don't stop him and do something about it right now.</s>CAMEROTA: And, Mr. Maldonado, what is the plan? I mean this is what he campaigned on. You know that he has legions of supporters who say that just the initial crime of crossing the border, that that does, therefore, make them guilty of a criminal act. And, you know, his supporters think that this does help secure the border. So what is the plan?</s>MALDONADO: No doubt, this is a declaration of war. These executive orders are a declaration of war on the immigrant community. The plan now is for our community to come together, be organized, educate ourselves about our rights and be prepared to fight to stop deportations. In the case of Guadalupe, when she was arrested, she didn't go down without a fight and neither did the community. Those of us here in Arizona have been fighting quite a long time against the anti-immigrant sentiment. When they tried to take her away, seven people were arrested, stopping the van in which she was in. We need to see more of those actions across the country. We've got to do everything we can legally, we've got to do everything we can politically. But when the time comes, we also got to be ready to get down in the street and fight.</s>CAMEROTA: Guadalupe's husband, when will you see her again?</s>GUADALUPE GARCIA DE RAYOS' HUSBAND: We'll see. I don't know yet for sure. We're going to keep on fighting until we bring her back.</s>CAMEROTA: Gentlemen, thank you very much. Please keep us updated on this story. We'll follow it.</s>GUADALUPE GARCIA DE RAYOS' HUSBAND: Thank you.</s>MALDONADO: Thank you.</s>CAMEROTA: Chris.</s>CUOMO: All right, some tough stories out there. 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