ICE agents arrest 73-year-old grandfather in Louisiana who has lived in US for 45 years
BY CLAIRE TAYLOR | Staff writer Apr 3, 2025 Updated Apr 4, 2025
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Forty-five years ago, Jose Francisco Garcia Rodriguez fled Cuba on a ship provided by the United States for people seeking refuge from the Cuban government.
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Rodriguez arrived in the United States with just the clothes on his back, Riggs said, with no education and not speaking English. He struggled and made mistakes, paid for them, and for the next 43 years lived a good life, raising a family and working hard labor for 40-60 hours a week, paying taxes and paying into Social Security, which he never used.
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But starting with a 73-year-old grandfather who has a heart condition and who is the primary caretaker of his wife with dementia is not the solution, she said.
“It is a problem that has to be fixed with a surgeon’s blade. Not a machete.”
Riggs asked the public to contact their elected officials to ask for their help in freeing Rodriguez. And she asked for prayers.
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Who knows what he was told 45 years ago? Maybe some Gooferment bureaucrats assured him all was Okey Dokey.
And why hasn’t he gotten his Social Security? Seems like all the con artists are getting it.
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