Even if you are here legally, as a resident or citizen, you may be stopped, and everyone in the car will be asked to prove their citizenship or demonstrate that they are in the country legally. The good old days are back. Welcome to my world. I wrote that we had to carry our birth certificates with us then. Texas used to have a wallet-sized birth certificate.
Refugio is a speed trap-type city, and I am aware of at least two instances where they had ID requirements when there was no reason to ask. The second incident occurred just recently in Refugio. Both times, ICE was called, and the people were deported. The mother is still here in the United States.
There is a way to bypass Refugio, but it involves a longer trip and a more scenic route.
A family road trip from Houston that should have ended with Jonatan Pech excited about his first year of college following a scholarship offer instead ended Tuesday with the teenager left to guess about when he’ll next see his mother.
Pech, 18, was traveling to Corpus Christi with his brother, sister and mother when they were pulled over by local law enforcement in Refugio near Corpus Christi, Pech told reporters Friday morning.
“She came back to the car with tears running down her face. She opened the back seat door, she grabbed her stuff and she just told us, ‘They’re going to take me,” Pech said at a news conference in Houston on Friday. “I couldn’t even step out of the vehicle to hug her, kiss her.”
As soon as Trump was elected, I ordered my birth certificate and one for my son, who is autistic; he has a Texas ID, which should be sufficient, but one can never tell with all those racist cops and border patrol agents.
