Miguel Aparicio, a former Phoenix high school coach whose deportation to Mexico sparked a national outcry, says he has been struggling with his life since leaving Arizona.
“I feel so depressed,” Aparicio recently told The Arizona Republic in Phoenix. “Sometimes when I’m dreaming, I wake up in the middle of the night and I think I’m in Phoenix. But then I look around and I realize, no, I’m not.”
The former high school cross-country coach's story unfolded last summer when his deportation came on the day the Obama administration made a policy change that would allow thousands of undocumented residents like Aparicio to remain in the country.
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In June, Immigration and Customs Enforcement's director John Morton announced that prosecutors and immigration agents would consider a defendant's history and community ties when deciding whether to press for deportation.
Aparicio's lawyer, Jose Luis Peñalosa, was quick to jump on the policy change, filing a motion on his client's behalf. But, it came too late and failed to win the man's stay of deportation, the Arizona Republic reported.
Aparicio has been described in local news outlets as a coach who contributed a great deal of success and good to Phoenix-area schools, despite being an undocumented worker and having a DUI on his record.
These days, Aparicio spends his days tending 26 sheep on his family's farm in Guanajuato. He's also dreaming of his return to America, according to the newspaper.
"I am just waiting to see if they change something about immigration," he told the Arizona Republic. "I am just hoping because I do not feel like the ICE officers were really fair with me. They just looked at the negative stuff. They did not look at the positive stuff. And I have a lot. I know for sure that one day I will be back."
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ILLEGALis ILLEGAL no matter how you cut it!!! Thgis person KNEW he was breaking the law and did it willingly!!!
So he's "depressed" at having to go to his HOME country--oh darn. Should have stayed there in the first place.
Add the fact of having a CRIMINAL working with kids is outrageous and scary!!! Didn't the school even check out his background or credentials?? For all anyone knows he could have been a pedophile (Penn state!) !!!
Anyone who defends this ILLEGAL CRIMINAL should be deported with him and share the job of tending 26 sheep!!!! I'm sure he's appreciate the help and maybe the MEXICAN governenment wouldn't shoot YOU for being illegaly in that countryl!!
Great lets put another drunk driving illegal in the news. In LA they probably wouldn't even impounded his car for the DUI!
That is his country,let him stay in his and all the legal citizens can stay here safe from him!
Why doesn't the title read; "Deported Illegal Alien with Criminal History, Dreams of US Return"
Yes, Tiger's, I agree. The headline (as is all too often the case with msn) is misleading.
im so sick of the media protraying some of these illegal criminals as poor lost souls
if he loves america so much, then why didnt he go through the proper channels to be here legally?
plus, i hate the idea that by working at a school, that means his salary was being paid by my tax dollars
and regarding the title, if we are going as far as having sympathy for this criminal, then hows this for the title of an article regarding a mass murderer finally being arrested: "US citizen dreams of being released from prison to return to the life he knew"
"They just looked at the negative stuff. "
He drove when drunk, that is a crime. Could have killed or maimed someone. To say nothing of the fact that he worked as a high school coach. Good role model for young people there, driving while drinking.
I also wonder how he managed to get paid, where did he get the social security number he used? That in itself constitutes fraud, I think. And in order to get hired by a school, I believe he would have had to sign a paper attesting to the fact that he had a legal right to work in the US... so he lied to get a taxpayer-supported job.
So we should have sympathy for this guy?
People like this man are an insult to all the LEGAL immigrants in this country who have spent all the time, money and aggravation and stress of going through legat al channels to get here. My husband is a legal immigrant, having gotten a "green card", twice (!).
Legal immigrants (even spouses of US citizens) have to prove that they have no police record in their home country or any other country they have lived in, and they have to have an expensive and thorough medical exam to prove that they have no major communicable diseases or serious disabilities, and they have to have enough money to live for at least two years.
It is totally not fair to those who have jumped through all the hoops, provided all the documentation, and paid all the fees that those who sneak into the country and do not go through all this expect to be able to stay in the US.
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I actually find myself agreeing with David. He's right, these older males who use up a woman, then move on to something younger are appalling and in many ways, get what they're asking for. I'm fairly sure that his family warned him, but his ego got the better of him. Now he's no longer here to enjoy the good life, simply because his wife, after giving birth to, and raising his children, wasn't as young as she was when he married her, and it never enters their minds that they aren't the young strong buck that she initially hooked up with, either.
These young women are out for the money and it's a rare case where there is real love for each other; he just wanted arm candy to begin with, to show his friends he's still got "it". Ultimately, "youth will to youth" and that's a fact of life, regardless of "Daddy" issues (her) or "sweet thang" issues (him). Young women with older men are interested in the financial security and someone to take care of them and give them the life they don't want to work for on their own --I know because I've been among groups of women in conversations and they admit it freely, even boast about it and recommend ways to achieve it; the equivalent of locker room stories.
I would rather connect with a man who has something going for him other than his body and looks; they fade with age, character, on the other hand, has the endurance to make it through the long haul. A beautiful appearance does not equate to a beautiful personality, just like an average or more homely appearance does not equal a more homely mind. It's usually the more average looking guy who has something worth sticking around for. I like to look at the pretty boys too, but I can't imagine hooking up with one ever again. Been there, done that. It's just not worth it.
The most rational comment in this vine... Unfortunately it is completely unrelated
Ha ha.....
Elizabeth went down to a River, and saw a blonde on the other side.
The blonde yelled to her;
"How do you get to the other side?"
Elizabeth responded; "
You're already there"
; )
Sorry sports fans, (literally) I was commenting on another article, and for some reason it posted to this one. Has something to do with that gray arrow thar says "older" to the left. If my cursor arrow goes anywhere near the bloody thing it offers me a past article. P*sses me off. Again, my apologies. Carry on.
I hate that too. MSNBC should allow us to turn that off.
Seems to me that a good coach for children understands and follows the rules and teaches kids to do the same. This "coach" came to the U.S. when he was old enough to understand that he was breaking the law (age 15). He's broken other laws (fraud, identity theft, working, and driving on a suspended license) that suggest that he will do anything that suits him when it suits him. Now, do we really need or want someone who would do that coaching?
I don't give a good G**DAMN about his story.His and a million more = people willing to forego the law.Our democrats boohooing about all the human suffering and blah blah blah.If our government DID ITS' JOB we wouldn't have all this sad sack crap.What percentage of LEGAL latinos can be traced back to the previous illegal lot who got GIVEN CITIZENSHIP> IT about makes me puke to back republicans but I can't back the party of the rainbow
Deport all illegal aliens now.
Create a 50 mile wide buffer zone all along the Mexican border even if we have to relocate or relocate U.S. towns, cities, and homes. Make it a military training base.
Close the border to Mexico now. Start detaining illegal aliens at offshore facilities separated by sex for 8 years. Guarded heavily by the Coast Guard.
The constitution needs to be amended to allow for the following:
Anyone found to be here illegally should be denied U.S. citizenship, and visitation to the United States for all time.
No more birthright citizenship unless at least one parent is a United States citizen.
Make English the official language of the United States.
Well I am a Canadian trying to immigrate here to the states and am doing everything that I gotta do do live here. It does piss me off to see and hear about all those illegal aliens living here and working. I need to pay $1,500,00 dollars and go through a physical in order to do so and seeing these dead beats pull the wool over america's eyes pisses me off. It will eventually make things even harder for people like me who do it the right way even harder!!
A track coach, ironic, he couldn't run fast enough to escape the loose liberal law. He says he is home sick??? what the hexx, he is home now, and should make the best of it. The only thing he probably misses now are young girls in running shorts, maybe even young boys, and scamming our institutions for a fat pay check, something he can't do in his native Mexico. Too friggin' bad taco, we have plenty of homeless, hungry and deprived in this country to be at all concerned about you and your lying arse, stay out of the U.S.
I agree. I am a Canadian Citizen trying to immigrate to the united states. I have to pay $1,500,00 dollars and go through a physical to live here. And I am not permitted to work till I receive my greencard. I am married to a U.S. Citizen. It pisses me off seeing these people do this and when they get caught they cry "The united states is my home"! It is not your home you have stolen from it and lied to it. And by them sneaking in illegally makes it much harder for law abiding people like myself who want to live here legally and work here legally to come here!