Damn Sympathy Whores...
Posted on 09/05/2006 4:04:09 PM PDT by guitman
One widow has more than $2 million but walks or rides the bus everywhere, terrified of drawing attention. Another millionaire widow stopped going to 9/11 support groups because she feared that families of police officers and firefighters might betray her. A widower has enough money to start a business building houses, but cannot buy himself a home. One of the 9/11 widows in the office of her lawyer. “I can’t dream very high, because I have no papers,” one says. All three lost a husband or a wife when the World Trade Center collapsed. Like thousands of others, they were beneficiaries of the federal Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund, which awarded millions of dollars to families whose loved ones died in the attacks. But a secret sets these three apart. Like their spouses who died, each is in the country illegally. Even though the government compensated them richly for their losses, making them wealthier than they ever dreamed, the money did not change their immigration status. They fear they could be deported any day. Five years after the terrorist attacks, these people are living with extraordinary contradictions. Long accustomed to stashing dollar bills in coffee cans, they became millionaires overnight. But because they do not have Social Security numbers or work visas, they cannot get mortgages or driver’s licenses. They say they have spent little of the money, afraid of attracting notice. Their spouses were labeled heroes, their names emblazoned on placards ringing ground zero. But none of these three, still living in or near New York City, feel they can publicly identify themselves. “I can’t dream very high, because I have no papers,” said one widow from Ecuador, who, like the others, agreed to be interviewed on the condition that she not be named.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Then my advise is go back to Mexico and come in legally....duhhhhhh....
BS, they CHOOSE to be illegals. With that sort of money they could hire a good lawyer and get all the paperwork cleared in a snap. More Hysteric BS from the NY Slimes
in a nutshell.
They need to go back to their own country and invest there. What would be wrong with that? No sympathy here.
mark
Damn Sympathy Whores...
In cases of civil settlements, YOU HAVE NO "STANDING" to gain entitlement.....it has been erroneously ruled in the past by judges that these CRIMINALS have the same rights as citizens, but common sense tells you that as far as this country is concerned, if you are not a citizen of this country, and are NOT here on diplomatic or visa credentials, you are NOT recognized in any court of the U.S.A.
Then, to bitch about not being a citizen and having to hide, why not? You are a fugitive from justice, and deserve being arrested, and DEPORTED back to where you snuck in from.....
Good idea. Think of how many gazillion pesos they would get in exchange.
Don't they keep telling us that they are here to earn money to send "home" -- and how much money each year they are actually sending?Well, why haven't these people sent that money "home" already? And, then they can follow along right after it.
SoS
Our Government needs to take back the money and kick their butts out of our country......
I think that Congress ought to grant them legal status.
sadly it will never happen.
Just think, if they had not come to this country illegally, their loved ones would not have been at the WTC on Sept.11, 2001 and their families would not have suffered these losses.
Advice: Move.
Do you really think they want legal status and PAY imcome taxes?
WHY???
Why should it?
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