Posted on 11/17/2008 7:07:14 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
ROSWELL, Ga. — Like all illegal immigrants, Lorenzo Jimenez knew the knock on the door from immigration agents could come at any time.
Still, he had enough faith in the American dream to buy a house in this Atlanta suburb, even though signing the papers meant raising the risk: He put his 2-year-old, American-born daughter's name and Social Security number on the title.
And it worked, for a while. Jimenez and his family lived happily enough for several years alongside "regular" citizens.
Nicole Griffin's mom lived a few doors away, and when Griffin visited, she said, her kids played with the Jimenez children. When Jimenez put his four-bedroom, two-bathroom home up for sale last spring, wanting more space, Griffin was immediately interested.
A contract was negotiated but when the sale appeared to go sour, Griffin raised a new issue: that she was a citizen and Jimenez wasn't. She told local media, immigration officials, his boss and others that he was here illegally. She even put signs in the yard of the house exposing his residency status.
As a result, agents came knocking last month, and now Jimenez is fighting to keep from being deported. He also lost his job.
"I'm very sad and very worried," said Jimenez, 32. "I can't sleep because I'm thinking about my family. What's going to happen? I don't know."
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He was a scammer and the “single mother of two” was also a scammer.
All things being equal, I think I’d rather have the illegal immigrants for neighbors, if it were me.
Putting everything else aside, someone's immigration status is irrelevant when it comes to enforcing a contract. A contract entered into by an illegal can be enforced by, and against, the illegal.
You are going back to your extended family in your home country. That is what is going to happen.
What he did was illegal and what she did was tacky and dangerous.
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Down the street, the Jimenez house sits empty.
So how is this out-of-work illegal immigrant, with lots of legal bills, able to afford to continue paying a (fradulent) mortgage on a $165K home, AND pay rent on an apartment????
My pity meter for Jimenez is about -10 and it's 0 for Griffin.
EARTH TO FOX NEWS, THIS GUY AIN'T AN AMERICAN, THUS CANNOT HAVE THE AMERICAN DREAM. HE HAS THE MEXICAN DREAM OF SNEAKING INTO THE USA AND GETTING THE SAME BENEFITS THAT TAX PAYING AMERICANS GET!
The reason the contract began to go sour was because of the fradulent title and mortgage (in the name of his two-year-old daughter) preventing closing the contract.
>>>>>”I can’t sleep because I’m thinking about my family. What’s going to happen? I don’t know.”<<<<<<
He’s apparently been in the USA long enough to know how to play the sob-story victim routine.
Doesn’t that qualify him for amnesty and citizenship?
Griffin ... has no regrets. "At the end, do I feel bad the family got in trouble? No, not at all," she said. .... Griffin escalated her actions. She contacted the FBI, the Roswell Police Department, local media, the state attorney general's office and the governor's office, among others. She asked her congressman, U.S. Rep. Tom Price, for help, saying she felt Jimenez and Meder had deceived her. Price's office, in turn, contacted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Brendan Buck, a Price spokesman.You go girl. Give this illegal HELL!"I am a law-abiding American merely trying to purchase a home," Griffin wrote in mid-July in a letter to American Homebuyers, a nonprofit that helps low- to moderate-income families buy homes. "An illegal family fraudulently obtained a mortgage using a 1 yr old SSN, and appear to have all the rights in this situation — How can this be when they shouldn't even be in America?"
.................and foreign nationals can buy property in the US.
And yet he chose to commit 17 different acts of Fraud anyway.
'Ef him. Indict him, try him, convict him, incarcerate him, and then deport him.
L
Adios, amigo!
“He put his 2-year-old, American-born daughter’s name and Social Security number on the title.”
Doesn’t leveraging their anchor-baby to cloak his illegal status make everything all right?
Deport him now.
“My pity meter for Jimenez is about -10 and it’s 0 for Griffin.”
The buyer probably lost all their ernest money.
She puts down ernest money in good faith.
The purchase goes sour because the title is fradulent.
She can’t get her ernest money back.
I think I’d be more than ticked off at that point also. She probably didn’t find out the seller was an illegal immigrant until she found out the title was bad.
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