I have sent the following letter to our President, Vice President, the First Lady, 50 Governors, 99 Senators, and 250 Representatives. Only about five have replied, all saying it was someone else’s department. No one cares. I know he can’t be the only one this is happening to.

I am writing this letter because of something that happened two weeks ago.

My son-in-law is Mexican. He has been married to my daughter for over six years. He has his A number and he has permission (or did have) to be in the U.S. He was in Tucson Arizona, when the police picked him up, looking for illegal‘s. He told them he had his A number, and had permission to be here. They told him they didn’t care; they put handcuffs on him and beat him. Finally, they put him across the border. He had to walk three days to get to his hometown.

My grandkids, especially the eight- and seven-year-old keep asking when their dad is coming home. Do you have a good answer for them?

What is he supposed to do now?

He wasn’t supposed to be sent back there anyway, he was supposed to come back to his wife and kids. Are you going to let him back across as easily as the government threw him across to Mexico?

I wrote a few people and no one has the guts to answer me or they just don’t give a damn. Is this how they are going to treat any of the Mexicans who become legal? If it is, why should they even bother to become legal in the first place?

Thank you for any information you can give me. I would really like to see my son-in-law back home with his children where he belongs, he shouldn’t have been treated that way. He is a good decent family man

By "A number" that is the file number on the paper work threw immigration. When you call immigration, they will usually ask for your "A number". A reporter that wrote about immigration and immigration law, for 13 years, so she says didn't know this.

I have also emailed 160 letters to the editors. It seems they don't care about the legal ones getting tossed. They want to keep the uproar going over the illegals going.

Ok your son-in-law has an A-number. The A stands for application. He was here at some point illegally and he applied for residency or a work permit. Most likely on the basis of being married to your daughter. Again, all he had was the right to stay until he application is sorted out.

Having an A-number means he applied. It does not mean he gets a gaurentee. If he applied six years ago it has almost certainly been resolved and apparently he was rejected. The number one causes for rejection(practically the only ones) is that he was convicted of a crime or he just didnt bother to show up for the hearing. You say he was arrested by the police so I'm guessing thats how it went down. The police would turn him over to ICE who would check his application and out he went.

Note to immigrants, Obey the law and show up when told, or you might really go home.

He was arrested during a sweep. Counting that as a prior arrest would be an unfair twist of logic.

Chore (Shorty) was approved. I call it his A number because thats what they ask for when you call immigration. I don't know if it was the police or some part of immigration who arrested him in AZ. He was arrested for DIP in VA. The police told him they wanted to talk to him, told him to come outside and when he came out they arrested him for DIP. I KNOW THIS FOR A FACT. I was standing in the yard. I am the one who told him to come on out and talk to them, because he didn't do anything. I didn't think they would arrest him.

Shorty was approved, they had one more meeting to go. I dont know if it was the police or immigration who arrested him in AZ. Only thing he was arrested before was DIP in VA and thats because the police asked him to come outside because they wanted to talk to him. I had no clue, stupid me, told him to come out and talk because he didn't do anything. They arrested him anyway for DIP. I was threatened when I spoke up in his defense. There was three or four people who saw this.