Military veteran father who has worked as a US border agent for 20 years could now be DEPORTED after finding out he was born in Mexico
- Raúl Rodríguez is desperately trying to avoid being deported to Mexico
- Rodríguez learned a couple of years ago he was born in Mexico while assisting his brother’s immigration process to the United States
- The Navy veteran has lived in the U.S. for five decades and was fired from his job with U.S. Customs and Border Protection as a Border Patrol officer
- He applied for permanent residency a year and a half ago
A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer and military veteran fears he could be deported to Mexico at any moment after immigration officials discovered he was not born in the United States.
Raúl Rodríguez’s troubles date back to when he helped his apply for a US visa while he was in the Mexican border city of Matamoros.
Rodríguez, who has been living in the U.S. for fifty years and served five tours with the Navy, learned United States Customs and Immigration Services was requesting additional documents for his brother.
It all went downhill when he reached out to the Office of Inspector General and was confronted with a Mexican birth certificate that belonged to him, according to Weslaco, Texas, station KRGV.
Raúl Rodríguez was let go of his job as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer when United States immigration authorities found his birth certificate showed he was born in Mexico and not the United States, a secret his father kept from him
The birth document had Rodríguez’s name on it and he answered with an honest ‘yes’ when he was asked if it was his.
However, there was one problem – Rodríguez was not aware he had a Mexican birth certificate.
‘I said, no. I’ve never seen it before. I’m almost 50 years old and I’ve never seen it,’ Rodriguez said.
The Border Patrol agent, who was assigned to the Rio Grande Valley Sector, stood before a judge along with his father, who confirmed he kept the secret and that his son was indeed born in Mexico.
The Office of Inspector General would eventually clear him of any wrongdoing, issuing him a letter which said: ‘The facts collected failed to substantiate the allegation that R. Rodríguez knowingly submitted a fraudulent U.S. birth certificate in an attempt to adjust the immigration status of his brother.’
The former CBP agent, who has lived in the U.S. for five decades, petitioned the USCIS for permanent residency but he has not gotten a response in over a year and a half
Rodríguez, who lost his six figures job, applied for a permanent residency a year and a half ago.
However, it has remained in limbo.
DailyMail.com reached out to his attorney Jaime Diez.
He told Fox affiliate KFXV that the government should adjust his migrant status.
‘We shouldn’t be fighting this,’ Diez said.
‘This should be a case that should have already been granted. He should be a legal permanent resident on his way to becoming a United States Citizen.’
The loss of employment with the CBP forced the married man and father of teenage children to refinanced his home and rearrange his debts, not knowing when his last day in the U.S. will come before immigration officials decide to deport him.
‘Every time I see a cop or a police officer, I kind of stiffen up or get nervous to see Border Patrol,’ Rodríguez. ‘These are people that I worked with, and now I have to fear these people.’