Juana Flores to Return to Goleta and will be reunited with her family
–This week, Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) announced that the Department of Homeland Security has granted Central Coast community member Juana Flores humanitarian parole. After being deported to Mexico two years ago, she will now be reunited with her family.
“After two long years apart, the Flores family will finally be reunited,” said Rep. Carbajal. “Juana’s deportation under the Trump Administration left a hole in our Central Coast community that I’m glad will now be filled. I thank the Biden administration for granting her humanitarian parole, which means she can return to her community and be present in the lives of her children and grandchildren. However, I will continue fighting to secure a permanent stay for Juana and reunite other families that were cruelly separated under the Trump administration. The families of our service members deserve our respect and admiration, not deportation,
A woman deported two years ago from Santa Barbara County to Mexico will be able to return with what’s called a “humanitarian parole.” In 2019 Juana Flores was deported after being married and having 10 children, one
Friends and family fight for return of deported Goleta grandmother
Juana Flores, deported from Goleta in April 2019 (KEYT)
GOLETA, Calif. - A family in Goleta held a vigil Saturday afternoon pleading for the return of their grandmother who was deported to Mexico two years ago.
Congressman Salud Carbajal attended the gathering, along with several other public figures, at De La Guerra Plaza in Santa Barbara to show support of the Flores family.
57-year-old Juana Flores lived in Goleta and was forced to leave her family home in 2019 due to the Trump Administration’s immigration policies.
The Flores family said Juana left behind a son in the U.S. military as well as a disabled son and a husband with medical issues, both of whom were under her care and are reportedly struggling in her absence.