Raúl Rodríguez, 53, was a respected Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent in Texas, where he assisted in the prosecution of undocumented, to withdraw the ‘green card’ from people and arrest criminals who traffic in people, but now he could be deported, because authorities discovered that he is undocumented.
In 2018, after the former CBP agent wanted to sponsor his brother to migrate to the US, the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Security Nacional told him that there was a problem with his birth certificate . It was false.
Rodríguez, who had worked for 18 years in the immigration office , he confronted his father , who confessed to him the fraudulent processing of the document when the Mexican was a baby, he told NPR .
The A former CBP agent was actually born in Matamoros, Mexico, not Texas, where he has lived practically his entire life and worked proudly in the DHS office, until two of his former colleagues asked for his badge and gun.
“Now they see me and they just act like they don’t see me,” the former agent told NPR. “I could be standing right in front of them, and they just look away and turn their back to me.”
The lawyer for the ex-officer, Jaime Diez, said that a ‘green card’ process was carried out before the office Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), but the petition was rejected.
“The office said he lied about being an American and it didn’t matter that he never knew that He was not a citizen ”, it was indicated.
Now Rodríguez is fighting in an immigration court his stay in the country , as DHS, the former agent lied about his origin and fraudulently claimed that he was a US citizen.
The former officer, however, is proud of the work he did at CBP, where he even led a team of undercover officers to dismantle a human trafficking network.
Rodríguez lives locked up in his house in Texas, because he can’t work and much less travel .
“I have too many enemies in Mexico. I have worked undercover with the cartels: many deportations, many asylum cases, many visa cancellations ”, he acknowledged about the possibility of returning to that country.