Lafayette grandfather arrested by ICE after living in US for 45 years

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Rodriguez arrived in the United States with just the clothes on his back, Riggs said, with no education and not speaking English. He struggled and made mistakes, paid for them, and for the next 43 years lived a good life, raising a family and working hard labor for 40-60 hours a week, paying taxes and paying into Social Security, which he never used. She did not elaborate on what kind of trouble he got into all those years ago.

Because of his earlier troubles, Rodriguez wasn't able to become an official citizen, despite 10 years of trying, she said.

"We thought once he paid his time, once he did everything that the authorities asked him to do, that was it," Riggs said. "Nobody told us he had been put on a removal list."

Garcia was told by officials and lawyers three years ago, she said, that it would be better to stop trying, to lay low and continue to work.

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Lafayette grandfather arrested by ICE after living in US for 45 years

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"We thought once he paid his time, once he did everything that the authorities asked him to do, that was it,"

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Castro emptied out his jails and flooded us with some bad hombres.

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