‘We are deporting ourselves’: Businessman and Family Quit Trump’s America in Disgust
2nd March 2018
A man who employs six people in California is so fed up of fighting to remain in the US he and his family have “deported” themselves.
Khaled Altarkeet, the owner of a café in San Jose, donated leftover food to Catholic charities before boarding a plane to Kuwait with his wife and four children after he was unable to extend his business visa.
“I’m shutting the business and forgetting the United States,” he told The Mercury News. “I will find another country that is more accepting and willing to take my investments, since this place doesn’t want us.”
Sometimes the system works. If he had been named Sanchez, of course, he’d just stay and thumb his nose at the law.
Mr Alterkeet initially obtained an L-1 visa, which was valid for one year, in order to work on his business. But immigration authorities refused to grant the entrepreneur an extension when he applied in October, on the grounds he failed to prove he was the manager or an executive.
That seems a pretty low bar. Wonder why he couldn’t meet it?
Funny how Trump has been President for one year and it’s now ‘Trump’s America’, while Obama was President for eight and it never was Obama’s America.