Deported Mexicans face shattered lives

Associated press via MSNBC ^ | Sun., Aug. 24, 2008 | The Associated Press

[businessprofessor]

TIJUANA, Mexico - The towering black gate opens silently to an alley with walls of corrugated metal. Scrawled in large white letters on one wall is: "The End."

For those deported from the United States, the words are an unnecessary reminder. Nearly every hour of the day, guards unlock this gate that leads back into Mexico, clicking open the padlocks hung on each side, in each nation.

[businessprofessor]

Please start the violins.

Bush must be doing something right to get an AP story like this.

[Clintonfatigued]

They had no business being here in the first place. Cry me a f***ing river!

[EagleUSA]

Yes, Oprah will surely have this on -— where is my Kleenex box???

[Lurker]

With a happy feeling in my heart I say to the departing criminals: "Don't let that scary black gate hit you in the a** on the way out!"

L

[FlingWingFlyer]

"Cruel and unusual punishment?"

"Unconstitutional?"

I can already hear the whining from the "media."

[Tennessee Nana]

My tiny violin is at the cleaners

Where’s the obligatory BARF ALERT ?????????

[whitedog57]

Mexico is a Socialist hell hole. And the Dems want them to export their hell to the USA.

Why not? Nancy and the other billionaire Democrats lived in armed camps.

[ClearCase_guy]

They can either fix their country, or come here and ruin ours. The media is hoping that our country continues to be ruined.

[ladyjane]

Shattered lives? They’ve been sending thousands of dollars home. They’ll be living like kings. And queens.

[webschooner]

No surprise here, coming from AP (All Propaganda).

[ScreamingFist]

Yea right. Did they enter through the “Big Black Gate”? Didn’t think so. What a load of BS.....

[fieldmarshaldj]

You mean “Cry me a rio.”

[South40]

How do you say this in English?

[Man50D]

[FlyVet]

What is Mexico's responsibility? Why don't they have to take care of their own people? Why is the United States the bad guy, when Mexico's people are running away from Mexico, toward the United States, by the tens of millions?

Why is that? How does that work?

[AmericanInTokyo]

Oh. I get it. Were supposed to feeeeeeeeellll saaaaaaaad somehow. They want us to be upssssssssssset. Quick. Someone. Anyone. Call a whaaaaaaaaaambulance.

What an agenda-laced article by a journalist if there ever was one.

Sheesh, the guy probably had his own brother detained and sent back through the fence.

[AmericanInTokyo]

para servicio mas rapid, empuje el numero "dos", por favor!

[AmericanInTokyo]

para servicio mas rapido, empuje el numero "dos", por favor!

[oldenuff2no]

I'm very sorry that criminal actions put these people in this situation, BUT, it was not the actions of our government or our people who got them there.
I do not want anything to do with the responsibility of taking care of these criminals. I do not want my tax dollars spent on their medical or welfare payments. I do not want the natural resources of our great nation to be used to support them either.
The illegals are here in this country to accumulate money. That is why they say they come here. They are committing a crime for financial gain. Can you tell me of another criminal act where the criminals are allowed to keep the monies gained by their illegal acts? If we treat the crime of identify theft and illegal entry as we do every other crime then these illegals would be stripped of all property they accumulated while working here illegally and then be deported. They need to go home and let their own country take care of them. We probably don't need to be out hunting the illegals down but when they get caught with a stolen identify or even in a traffic stop then the rule of law should prevail and they should be deported.

[LibWhacker]

That was the last posting before the server went down... YOU BROKE FREE REPUBLIC!!! ;-)

[Kevmo]

Well, I see I can’t complain about the missing barf alert, so another way to bump this thread is to call it to the attention of the AFIRE ping list.

[goldstategop]

And this all our fault, how exactly? They made a choice to break our laws and come to this country illegally. No one pushed them to ruin their own lives in the bargain.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Doogle]

.....typically no mention of the pain they put an American family through when their identity is stolen.

[Toadman]

I'm stunned by the responses to this article at pmsnbc. I expected readers to "sympathize" and blame the eeeevvvilll American government, but most of the responses I viewed were very anti-illegal immigration.

Wow.

[goldstategop]

And no mention of the costs they impose upon Americans in the form of crime, increased entitlement costs and competition for our poorest Americans by stealing their jobs and livelihoods. Why do we have to be a boardinghouse for Mexico? Its time they started taking care of their own people!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[goldstategop]

The feedback section on Newsvine has to be read to believed... well the MSM expects us to sob while the violins are playing. Listen... my parents came legally to this country and I became an American citizen by following the laws. No one has been concerned about me - an American and here we are expected to show compassion for those who abuse our hospitality and show contempt for our rules. Like the old saying has it, you live in my house, you abide by my rules. What are we doing but enforcing our rules? Every other country in the world protects its sovereignty. What we do isn't all that different from them!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Impy]

Hey, I feel you guys, I’d probably sneak over if I was a poor Mexican but...CYA.

[Impy]

“A few steps from the gate, American tourists pose for photos in front of a stone relief. They are oblivious to the men, women and children sadly shuffling into a homeland many risked their lives to leave.”

This passage angers me.

[goldstategop]

40% of Mexico would move here if they could. That's how big the problem is and the folks who push for Open Borders ignore the extent of the problem. We already have 20 million illegals here and what we do in deporting them is just a drop in the bucket compared to the immense harm they inflict upon our country!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

She says she only wanted to see her mom, who went illegally to Los Angeles when Riveras was 8 and left her with her father in Chimalhuacan, a slum outside Mexico City. When he died in December, her mother asked Riveras to come live with her. Now Riveras is not sure what she will do.

Mom's problem, not mine.

[goldstategop]

THIS _ IS_NOT_THEIR_HOMELAND! Its too much to expect media liberals to acknowlege they aren't Americans and never were.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[goldstategop]

Its not our problem. Family reunification? Send the mom back to Mexico. Its not America that is keeping families apart!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[R. Scott]

Smallest one I could find.

[Impy]

You misread the passage, Mexico is the homeland. “The American tourists visting the whatever nearby ignore the Mexicans returning to their homeland.”

[Impy]

“Fonseca is searching for work in the impoverished city, but even filling out an application is difficult. Fonseca has spent 30 of his 31 years in the United States, so English is his main language.”

I would let someone here since infancy stay. But not a druggie crook like you Fonseca. Adios.

[goldstategop]

Have I really? I was under the impression as you were my friend, that they seem to prefer life here rather than life back there.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Rastus]

Its too much to expect media liberals to acknowlege they aren't Americans and never were.

Are you talking about the illegals or the media liberals? Because either way, it applies.

[goldstategop]

The funny thing about that is those same people who whine about not being able to speak English in Mexico are the same people who demand their children be educated in Spanish in America! Its the patent hypocrisy that galls me.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[goldstategop]

They certainly seem to see eye to eye about this country. We should just welcome every one in... even the criminals! The MSM doesn't really have a clue as to what the American people think about illegal immigration!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Impy]

Yes.

Anyway the passage angers me because it implies the American vacationers in the area should give a **c* about the poooor deportees and be there protesting instead of enjoying their vacation.

[Caipirabob]

Mexico is a Socialist hell hole. And the Dems want them to export their hell to the USA.

And that is while it is under control of the "conservative" party there. Mexico's government was almost taken over the last election by their communist party, which had staged an "Al Gore Style" scandal in order to discredit the election of the current government. They were eventually defeated, but it was a close thing.

The Mexican Communists would likely forcibly march their poverty-class right over our border all at once. They know the rats would create some reason to consider it a humanitarian event and permit it.

[goldstategop]

We should? Does the world give a rat's rear end how Americans live? We should be taking care of our own people and let other countries handle theirs. That's the right thing to do!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[goldstategop]

Our bipartisan Open Borders establishment would love to do just that - given the chance. That's the reason I can't vote for McCain and why I just think little of the stupid GOP voters who think securing our borders isn't our country's highest priority! Well, we can either keep it or lose it!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Judith Anne]

American citizens who get sick in Mexico do not get even emergency health care without CASH.

American citizens held on any charges in Mexico have to bribe their way out, or starve in a hell-hole.

Send the freeloaders BACK. Yesterday.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

the black gates of mordor

[pbmaltzman]

Shattered lives of Mexicans? Boo fricking hoo.

What about the SHATTERED LIVES of all the people up here in El Norte who have been mowed down by irresponsible, drunk Mexican drivers who just can't be bothered with driver education, licenses, insurance, and car registration? Most of which Mexican @$$holes who aren't even ARRESTED, but rather turned loose to kill again.

Not to mention the SHATTERED LIVES of the families of the dead victims.

As someone else said above, cry me a rio.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

So let me get this straight, they leave a hellhole to enter another country illegally. They illegally live the life of kings, comparably, just as criminals do. When their crime is discovered and they are punished, they are merely sent back to their former, legal lives, which is being treated far better than other criminals who are discovered and sent to prison.

And we’re supposed to feel guilty about this why?

[Joe Boucher]

Stop it, I’m laughing so hard I nearly fell out of my chair.
Imagine, Law breakers have a tough go of it and I should feel for these lawbreakers?
Round em all up and deport ALL illegals.

[Joe Boucher]

Stop it, I’m laughing so hard I nearly fell out of my chair.
Imagine, Law breakers have a tough go of it and I should feel for these lawbreakers?
Round em all up and deport ALL illegals.

[ConservativeMan55]

lol