Posted on 07/01/2005 4:31:02 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak
By every measure but one, the Gonzalez family of Jefferson City, Mo., are model citizens. Marvin was a courier for then-Missouri Gov. Bob Holden, delivering messages and screening the governors mail, Marina taught Spanish and was the after-school care director at her parish grade school. Their daughter Marie was a star pupil at Helias High, on the track and tennis teams, with dreams of becoming a lawyer.
There was just one thing wrong with this picture: The Gonzalezes aren't citizens at all. They came to Jefferson City in 1991, legally, on a six-month visitor's visa from their native Costa Rica. They received some remarkably poor legal advice: that if they stayed, got steady jobs and sank roots into the community, they could become citizens in seven years. They held up their end of the bargain, however much of it may have been misrepresented to them in the first place. And for their troubles, the federal government has formulated its response: Next Tuesday it will deport the Gonzalezes back to Cost Rica.
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Scoff.
Remarkably poor??? Que? They were here for 14 years longer than they should have been.
The only tragedy is that they were allowed to break the law for 14 years straight without anything happening about it.
Send them all home, allow them to reapply and wait in line. Then, those with jobs here can get green cards with a thumbprint so we can track them...(weed out terrorists). If they decide to apply for American citizenship, fine. Just do it legally. Twenty million illegals go back home while we strengthen our borders. This is the responsible, practical thing to do...but of course, we can't do that. It's insensitive. However, maybe the twenty million who went back home might put their new skills to work in Costa Rica or Mexico and make a difference. Uh, probably not.
Yeah, well. Them's the breaks. Adios.
Good, tell them See Ya!, and don't let the turnstile hit you in the backside on your way out.
We should also confiscate all their property, and sell it, then take the money and sink it into ensuring we get conservative SCOTUS Appointees put on the court.
They can go back and apply like the Millions have before them.
We could let more in legally if we stopped the freeloaders and illegals.
And I don't care what they did or did not do. It doesn't matter, they're CRIMINALS who broke the law, laughed at it for years and now it is finally catching up to them.
Tragedy, I would say the system worked in this case.
Regards,
Joe
Wapo gets it wrong here. Deport the Gonzalezes immediately and other illegals. Seal the borders.
The tragedy is that there are still 30 million left to deport.
How does an illegal get a courier job for a governor?
Screening the governor's mail and delivering messages???
WTF!!!???!!!
Someone was in charge of getting that cushy job, right?
Some agency was involved with that job application and some people knew everything there was to know about senor Gonzalez.
So ...
Who was the agency and who were the people involved with getting this job.
The illegality, IMO, is secondary to the people trying to destroy us from within by greasing the ways for illegals to get these jobs.
What if Marvin had been Achmed?
If good, hardworking families want to come to the US, please do so legally.
Is this the same family? This article says they entered legally from CR on a 6-month VISA. It seems to me the other family's patriarch entered the US illegally 14 years ago. Could be wrong, though.
Either way, they don't get my sympathy.
And a Homeland Security Department to damn chicken to do their job.
And what bargain was that. You get to break the law and just lay low and all is forgiven. Maybe they don't keep up with current events. People from the 60's that committed murder thaought they could do the same thing....guess what.
What do you think...stay or go?
Well, welcome to FR, JT.
Oh, I see it is, thanks. I was probably thinking about the "sob story" of another family facing deportation, I've seen so many.
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