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Posted on 10/04/2009 6:09:05 PM PDT by Saije
Edited on 10/04/2009 6:59:13 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
All it took was a wrong turn for Jorge-Alonso Chehade to face deportation.
But that wrong turn near Seattle also brought him attention and praise from Washington state’s congressional delegation, pro bono attorneys and maybe a chance to stay in the United States. In March, the 22-year-old college graduate was visiting friends in Bellingham at Western Washington University. On the way back early in the morning, tired from a night’s fun and unfamiliar with the area, Chehade and a friend took the north Interstate 5 ramp instead of the southbound one.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewstribune.com ...
>> This young man came to the United States with his parents and has overcome a number of obstacles to lead an exemplary life in the United States
Wow, he sounds like a really great guy, you Saddam Hussein buttkiss.
Maybe he should have applied for citizenship back when he could have.
Now he’s a criminal. Get him out of here, pronto.
What part of “...Chehade stayed on illegally since his teen years.” do they not comprehend?
Say WA? Evergreen State ping So when is this crook going to be deported for good.
I don’t get this. Why would you go through US customs if you are driving out of the USA into Canada?
Yea I came here under the similar deal EXCEPT I spent 10 years working with the INS through the normal channels and got my citizenship the legal way.
No sympathy from me. Don’t let the door hit him on the way out.
Unless this college graduate is willing to pick peaches, he’s doomed.
Jeebus Kerristtt, maybe we should all just break the law...I mean, we’re good people otherwise...
LIBERALS MAKE ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE WHATSOEVER!!!
So this excuse for a news writer would have us believe that people are being deported for making wrong turns.
Hard to do!
Typically Washington state's Goober Crew want to keep him on ~ to do what I can't imagine.
Can he pick apples?
Sorry, written by his nephew, I meant.
You can look up the crossing using Google.com ~ bet there’s some kind of turnaround.
To get back in!
This reminds me of something that almost happened to my wife and son a couple of years back. They were flying from the midwest to the east coast, and because of weather (or maybe it was equipment) foulups they missed the second leg of the trip. The airline offered to route them through Toronto, but my wife pointed out that she'd have to clear back through US customs, because she'd be walking around the Toronto airport switching flights, unless they had some sort of an arrangement for dealing with passengers routed through Canada. The airline people called in their supervisor, who made a bunch of calls, and no one knew what would happen. So my wife took a later, all in the US, flight. Incidentally, she's a lifelong citizen, she just wasn't carrying her passport since she expected to be travelling domestically.
BZZZZT. Goodbye, thank you for playing.
I'm guessing that what they meant to say was that he was busted when he turned around and was coming back IN across the border.
Is that a euphemism for "drunk."
If you turn left off the highway at that point you end up in the main drive to customs, just like you'd come from Canada.
So, the answer is you don't need to go to Canada ~ just a hundred yards short of it more or less ~ and you will be able to turn around but you have to take a road that goes through US customs.
All very simple, easy to understand, and remarkably stupid of this bunch of illegal aliens. You'd think by now they'd know the rules! http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&source=hp&q=blaine+washington&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Blaine,+WA&gl=us&ei=5knJSr3MNJDQM__j7PIH&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1
>> Can he pick apples?
LOL! ACORNS, maybe? McDermott is up in ‘10, wonder when Cantwell comes due? They can ALWAYS use help lining up votes.
they must have seen the WELCOME TO CANADA sign and did the uturn back toward the United States, which leads to the checkpoint.
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One less.
Unconstitutional Bill of Attainder.
Not that that matters any more.
Two reasons. Either (a) we got him during an outbound inspection or (b) the Canadians turned him around and we got him coming back.
Since he said he "left the country by an inch", I'd say "B" is more likely.
He was probably waiting for that sure bet AMNESTY BILL that didnt pass. I read in another story he has a Business Degree from University of Washington.
I’m sure he’s a great kid but why didn’t he just get his visa renewed in a timely manner?
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I wouldn’t care if he stayed if all his advocates would demand enhanced deportation of illegal alien gang bangers and criminals. But they never do that
Exactly.
Because once you pass the last exit in Blaine there is no way to turn around - you >have< to continue through the border, turn around in Canada then come back through ... unless you really want to make a spectacle of yourself and make a U-turn over a quarter mile wide median ..... that’d garner some interest with the border guards ....
Nope. Kind of the opposite.
Private bills have a very long history, but are almost always a bad idea.
It did happen to us at Niagara Falls. The dumbest turn I ever made. You have to explain to US customs why Canada wouldn’t let you in.(inour case, no passports, as we had no intention of crossing the border)
That reminds me of a time I went on a beer run at the University of Washington...we took off after class and headed to Vancouver for a couple cases of Kokanee...we filled up the trunk with beer, than hit a motel and filled it up with ice, and drove back toward Seattle. When the Customs guy asked us how long we had been in Canada I said 20 minutes...and was pulled over. When I opened the trunk, they saw the beer and all I said was “Well, there is this party....” and they all started laughing and kicked me loose.
(of course, those were the good ole days when you only needed a drivers license or state ID to enter the country...at least from Mexico or Canada.)
oh yeah, and I wasnt an illegal.
Isn't the town of Niagara Falls (American side) totally depressing? I went through there about a dozen years ago.
That helps. :-)
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No, it’s called a “private relief bill”. A “bill of attainder” simply singles out an individual for punishment.
Have you noticed that the INS loves to go after the sympathetic illegals? For example, I remember when they tried to deport a woman after her American husband was killed fighting in Iraq.
They only do that to make people angry about the enforcement of the immigration laws. They let the rapists and convicted felons off the hook easy and concentrate on those cases that will evoke sympathies for illegals when they make the news.
It’s just like the way they handled the post-911 increased security. They made cavity searches of 90 year old English ladies only as a demonstration that these kinds of policies were subject to abuse, and with the intent of weakening the public resolve to increase security.
(b) can’t be the answer at that point. He has to go to Canadian customs, turn around INSIDE Canada, and then return to US customs. It’s a lot more than an inch when you do that.
Exemplary of what? How to thumb your nose at the law?
he leads an “exemplary life” , except when he runs across a law he doesn’t agree with and ignores it.
Because he and his family simply overstayed their visa on purpose to set up in this country ILLEGALLY.
Overstaying one's visa is the preferred way for illegals to move here. They don't all cross the desert.
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Of course it’s more than an inch.
He said it, not me.
Nuff said!
Personally, I'm growing a bit tired of what are supposed to be my elected officials flocking to the aid of lawbreakers when they will not even answer a letter from me.
But it was Canada where he went ... what has that to do with Mexico? Just asking ....
In this case, the mistake brings forth an opportunity for the deportation of an illegal alien.
The coffee guy? Juan whats-his-name??? oh he got out of the coffee business decades ago....he is now exporting cocaine on that donkey.....much more money in that than in coffee.
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