Posted on 12/18/2010 8:57:47 PM PST by moonshinner_09
Mark Farrales, whose family sought political asylum when he was 10, is to be sent back to the Philippines. The Harvard alumnus hopes Congress will consider a private immigration bill. Mark Farrales figured his time in America could be up when he answered the door at his Reseda home to find two men standing there in black bulletproof vests emblazoned with three large white letters.
"It read ICE," he said. "My heart just sank."
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were there to arrest him for being in the country illegally.
Brought here by his parents as a child, the now-31-year-old Farrales faces imminent deportation back to the Philippines. His only hope appears to be for Congress to pass a private immigration bill that could grant him citizenship, a legal maneuver that is rarely successful.
Farrales arrived abruptly in the United States as a 10-year-old in 1990, just days after two alleged hit men shot his father twice in the head outside their home in Quezon City in the Philippines, he said in a telephone interview from the Mira Loma Detention Center in Lancaster.
His father, Jaime, who survived the attack, was a prominent lawyer who often spoke out against government corruption and had just announced a bid for congress.
Fearing for their lives, the family escaped to Los Angeles using visitor visas and sought political asylum. Jaime Farrales argued that the politicians he'd rallied against had tried to have him killed. "I never got to see my house again after that night," Mark Farrales said. "I was completely uprooted from my life there."
The agency contends that immigration courts have "consistently held that Mr. Farrales does not have legal basis to remain in the United States. He remains in ICE custody
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I don’t know how much more simple I can make this. I want illegals gone. My issue is that the USA needs to be prepared for these same illegals and their respective countries to want to screw us over, militarily or otherwise. How this came to be me wanting them to stay is beyond me. I’ve looked back at this whole thread and there is nothing I’ve said that backs up them staying.
Nothing I’ve said matches what was said back to me. Psst, I’m sorry you can’t read or comprehend. Not my problem.
Just to say, that I find your idea interesting, from the standpoint of what a large influx of unemployed returnees to Mexico will do to the drug trade there.
Wow, that’s two. Sending our Mexican drug trade into Mexico is interesting.
Think about what that might do to the drug trade here - it will reduce an entire army of drug couriers/runners and distributors.
Americans go to live in the Philippines all the time. It is no big deal for Mark Farrales to take that spiffy Harvard degree and do the same.
Still..... He would be an asset to the United States. Too bad the people promoting the Dream Act could care less about securing the border. Nor do they care about deporting illegal aliens his age who are complete leaches and drains on society. Many are criminals. So sorry about that Mark. I never will support a Dream Act
Yes, this single thread has been a bad experience. I’ll take care in the future to make sure my 6 year olds understand what I’m saying. Oops, I already do that. This may be hopeless. LOL Thanks for bucking me up.
Merry Christmas and a Happy & Safe New Years to You & Yours!
Agreed, though I suspect a lot of the drug workers here are (often citizen) gang members. I’m going to look for any articles about effects on the Mexican drug industry, anyway; I’m wondering about even greater violence and whether that would be likely to spill over.
He should scramble back to the Philippines.
Leftist talking points also used to make people think that the islamic muslum terrorists will get mad at us and start using terrorism (?)against us if we don't placate them.
I just think they’re going to come back at us all at once, militarily.
So what, we need to protect our country. BTW their military is already attacking us on our terrortory
We have a military too when the PTB's acknowledge that we are being invaded maybe they will realize it is worth it to fight back.
Then your arguement will be that we shouldn't resist their military invading us or they will "hate us even more." TS.
This particular illegal criminal insurgent invader (made a criminal by his selfish parents that brought him across the border thus breaking our laws) when he was to young to fend for himself.
They were making the point that it's too bad the citizenship bill (What?) didn't pass to help criminals not pay for their crimes.
They soft sweet description used of course is "The Dream Act"-dream for them, nightmare for us- is just to hide the fact that it is really an amnesty ollie ollie oxen free bill.
That takes a lot of balls... you, a two week noob flagging a ten year member to a mod. Drop dead. Your hours are numbered.
I cc’d who I was cc’d on. Get a grip.
You need to learn some manners. And pony up a contribution to FR. We’ve been here for years fighting the good fight. You’ve been posting for FIVE DAYS. You come off like a new immigrant denigrating his new homeland.
I have donated. Again, find something else to do than shadowing me.
Again, learn some manners, noob.
Coming from you, that’s funny. Every response from you has some form of insult contained in it. I can assure you I had manners instilled in me from a very early age.
Being that you are most worthy of insult, you should be used to a lifetime of it.
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