Posted on 08/22/2017 1:40:54 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Lizandro Claros Saravia was supposed to be at college in North Carolina by now. At soccer practice. At the library.
Instead, the 19-year-old soccer star from Germantown is hundreds of miles away, in a sweltering Central American nation he barely recognizes and sometimes fears.
U.S. immigration officials swiftly deported him and his older brother, Diego, on Aug. 2, days after Lizandro told them during a routine check-in that he had a scholarship to attend Louisburg College.
Lizandro and Diego, now 22, used fraudulent visas and passports to come to the United States in 2009 and reunite with their family; some of whom were also here illegally. Lizandro was 10, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement; his brother was 14.
They were ordered deported in 2012 and granted a stay of deportation in 2013. Two subsequent requests for stays were denied. But with their clean records and high school diplomas, the brothers were not a priority for deportation under the Obama administration.
Under President Trump, however, the handcuffs are off, in the words of ICE Acting Director Thomas Homan. Anyone in violation of immigration law can be targeted for deportation. Officials say they want to reduce the nations population of undocumented immigrants, currently about 11 million, and dissuade would-be migrants from making the illegal, and sometimes deadly, journey north.
The expulsion of the brothers outraged Democratic lawmakers and advocates for immigrants, as well as their teachers, friends and teammates.
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This is Obama’s fault. If he had been following the U.S. Immigration statutes, they would not have gotten in to later be deported.
Wait a minute ... I see your problem here, Diego. That's gonna cost ya.
Can I sneak into El Salvador and get a scholarship?
ICE is doing a great job by letting such criminals like this know that they’re not exempt from deportation.
Now a lot of people like Lizardo will leave the country before they’re booted out.
So the criminal alien invader steals a college space from a Citizen and steals a scholarship from a Citizen? Good that he was deported. Never return. He’s lucky he is breaking bigger rocks into little ones for a few years. n Maybe he can go to college in his crappy country.
Well now he can play soccer in El Salvador and get reacquainted with his 50 other extended family members.
More winning.
>>Anyone who uses fraudulent visas and passports to immigrate to the U.S. should be treated as a prisoner of war.<<
Time to chip ‘em up in the rectum and install chip readers t every crossing area.
That will reduce repeats. And hpefully onepeats.
Cry me a river. America is for Americans and those what want to become citizens. Until then, go home.
Of course it is. :-)
Good. Now maybe that scholarship can go to an honest kid.
This story doesn't even make any sense. If he has a scholarship, you'd think he could get a student visa to be an El Salvadoran citizen studying in the US.
>>I dont know what were going to do, Lizandro, his gaze flat, said in an interview ... I feel like in this country, I dont have a future.
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“Reuters cited that city as a place where the coffin-making business has taken off,”
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Sounds like you should go into coffin-making, kid.
We are nothing if not kind and helpful here at FR.
Would you let a squatter move into your home? America is our home, and laws must be followed.
An American Young Lady earned Valedictorian honors and was killed by an IA.
“Lizandro and Diego, now 22, used fraudulent visas and passports to come to the United States”
F*** off, we’re full.
We got enough criminals.
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