welfare fraud, I guess......
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-grandmother-deportation-20170304-story.html
grandmother known as the “backbone” of a San Diego military veteran’s family was sent back to Mexico on Friday, more than two weeks after she was picked up by immigration agents outside her house in unmarked SUVs on Valentine’s Day.
Clarissa Arredondo, 43, is the mother of Adriana Aparicio, whose husband is a Navy veteran working as a contractor in Afghanistan. The couple has two daughters, 2 and 3, and Arredondo, who came to the U.S. more than 25 years ago, helped take care of them.
“We get together all the time,” Aparicio said. “We can just be hanging out at her house, singing and dancing with the girls. They love doing that with her. She does their manicures and pedicures. She just spoils them.”
Aparicio, 27, said officials told her family that her mother was an enforcement priority.
“They consider my mom as a criminal for lying on paperwork to get welfare,” Aparicio said, adding that officials said that happened more than a decade ago.
Arredondo’s case is one of many popping up around the nation as President Trump sets out to redirect immigration enforcement priorities from his predecessor’s choice to focus on immigrants who committed violent crimes.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not able to answer questions about Arredondo’s case. The San Diego Union-Tribune could not find any record of convictions for Arredondo in either federal or California state court record systems.