Posted on 04/14/2013 1:11:22 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
It was three years ago, early morning, when Elizabeth Perez returned to her Cleveland home from the doctor’s office with good news to tell her husband, Marcos: She was pregnant with their second child.
For several moments, they celebrated with kisses, hugs, and tears of joy. Mr. Perez headed to work. A few minutes later, he was pulled over for a traffic-stop violation. Less than a month later, he was deported to Mexico City.
“Noooooo!” Mrs. Perez wailed into the phone receiver when immigration authorities called to inform her that her husband had been apprehended.
Mr. Perez would not be at his wife’s side when she gave birth to Marcos Antonio Perez. He would not be there to watch his eldest son, Ignacio Pele Perez, celebrate his second and third birthdays.
“I never feel such pain,” Mr. Perez said to The Blade in a telephone interview from his home in Mexico.
His words were interrupted by the sound of him sobbing uncontrollably.
“Oh, Jesus, it’s terrible. I want to be with my children. I want to be with my wife.”
The Perezes are not alone in their pain. More than 200,000 immigrant families have been torn apart during the past two years in the United States, according to a recent congressional report.
Even as a bipartisan group of senators wraps up work on a comprehensive reform bill that is expected to include a pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants living in the United States, it may be too late for many families who’ve already lost loved ones to deportation.
(Excerpt) Read more at toledoblade.com ...
I think someone should remind them that the family doesn’t have to be split up. They certainly can all leave together and I would be happy to help them pack. They make the choice to stay here.
I have no sympathy whatsoever. There have been multiple administrations that have offered a path or paths to citizenship.
if you never entered the country illegally... you wouldn’t experience the ‘heartache’ of the law being enforced
maybe we should start treating these people sneaking into the country as foreign agents... spies or potential sleeper agents
that would get interesting fast
My father robbed a bank 10 years ago.
He was caught yesterday.
Now I have to give back everything he bought me? My car? My house? My education?
That’s not fair!
I think you’re just a racist who doesn’t like me because I’m brown.
I have no sympathy whatsoever. There have been multiple administrations that have offered a path or paths to citizenship.
Amen! It's a trifle difficult to follow the path to citizenship when you insist on taking cuts.
Same sob stories appear in articles whenever amnesty is discussed, all written in an attempt to garner an emotional response. I have to wonder how many are in fact made up “sympathy ploys”. You get this type of article every single time- the wife wailing as her husband is torn out of her arms and sent back to Mexico, children coming home from school and screaming in terror as they discover their parents are (dun-dun-dunnnn) gone! The wife left to cry at the altar as her fiancee doesn’t show up to the church for the marriage ceremony, only to discover that he’s been deported back. All meant to make the criminals appear sympathetic, and try to make people feel sorry for them. Do they actually expect us to believe these stories? I certainly don’t.
You make very good points. When the article is rewritten to reflect this, it changes the whole mood:
“It was three years ago, early morning, when US citizen Elizabeth Perez returned to her Cleveland home from the doctor’s office with good news to tell her Mexican citizen husband, Marcos: She was pregnant with their second child.”
http://www.immigrate2usa.com/practiceareas/non-immigrant-visas/marrying-a-foreign-national-1.asp
In general, it can take approximately six to twelve months for a foreign national to receive United States permanent residence (green card).
(This applies if the) foreign national has entered the country legally, with a valid visa (or visa exempt) and I-94 (little white entry card - or sometimes green entry card).
If the foreign national has entered illegally, or without inspection, there is little that can be done without the foreign national leaving the country, and most likely being subject to the possible three or ten year bars to return to the United States.
Deportation breaks apart families in Ohio, across nation
All crime breaks apart families and sneaking into a Country ILLEGALLY and staying there ILLEGALLY makes one a criminal.
Simple, we have a criminal in the White House running this country, therefore illegals think its OK to hop across the border, have a zillion kids, pay NO taxes, and collect as much Govt goodies as possible without having to worry about being deported
Put that question to the criminals in the congress and senate.
Whatevah, I went up to Walmart to buy a little food. My hubby and I work and aren’t rich. I watched her type pull out their ebt card and get free food, dresssed nicely, walk out the store, and get in a brand new car.
So life sucks, the best people like us get is that we don’t get deported, we get stay and pay for her type.
The author of this piece of propaganda can go to hell and Elizabeth Perez: f-you for taking your honorable service to this nation and attempting to use it as a tool of emotion to sway people to approve of your lawlessness.
Which is the same thing I’d say if you had committed armed robbery.
Who were these people separated from when they came here.
Who left their family and friends in the old country, and whay is it so much worse to send them back to those family’s.
They didn’t mind elaving their old country fa,ily and friends to come here. Why can’ t Mr Perez have his come to him at his new home in the old country?
Shortage of Farm Workers?... (Americans too lazy to work)
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3007804/posts
I will contribute $1 for his wife and childrens’ Greyhound bus ticket to the border. I have a heart.
But what about another aspect of all this?
ILLEGAL alien crime and ILLEGAL alien immigration reform screwing the ones who followed the law.
Dear ruling class: pay more attention to elimnating ILLEGAL alien crime and MAKE SURE that reform DOES NOT screw legal immigrants two of whom, BTW, I sponsored and both are now citizens!
ILLEGAL alien crime. Is it true as Congressman Steve King reported that daily about 25 people are killed by ILLEGAL aliens.. either by outright crime or DWI? Maybe this (below) is one of his sources. That's like a mass shooting every f'in day!
From a GAO study requested by Congressman Steve King of Iowa in 2005 PDF file here
.. 55,322 illegal aliens, arrested at least 459,614 times.
Most of the arrests occurred after 1990 so I see these figures as the 16-year period.. 1990 - 2005.
55,322 illegal aliens, arrested at least a total of 459,614 times, averaging about 8 arrests per illegal alien.
Thirty-eight percent (about 21,000) had between 2 and 5 arrests,
32 percent (about 18,000) had between 6 and 10 arrests, and
26 percent (about 15,000) had 11 or more arrests.
700,000 criminal offenses, averaging about 13 offenses per illegal alien.
One arrest incident may include multiple offenses, a fact that explains why there are nearly one and half times more offenses (700,000) than arrests (459,614).
Almost all of these illegal aliens were arrested for more than 1 offense. Slightly more than half of the 55,322 illegal aliens had between 2 and 10 offenses.
About 45 percent of all offenses (700,000) were drug or immigration offenses.
About 15 (of 700,000) percent were property-related offenses such as burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and property damage.
About 12 percent (of 700,000) were for violent offenses such as murder, robbery, assault, and sex-related crimes.
I came in legally, got married, applied for a green card and eventually citizenship... It took years! I don’t have any patience with people who come in illegally and demand all short of rights! Go back to your country, take your spouse and children with you, and when you can return legally I will be the first one holding a “welcome” banner... but not one minute sooner.
“If they want a nation with badly enforced laws go to mexico where they can be accommodated.”
They actually not only jail you, but treat you like a 4th world citizen in jail. It’s 10 times more strict in mexico in regards to immigration and they want us to foot the bill on these clowns.
“Why do people think it is okay to break the law without consequences?”
From my experience it’s part of latino culture. One of those family values that Dubya used to justify his pandering to illegal aliens.
Boo-hoo.... You should have taken first things first and followed the laws of the country you profess to love so much. I have no empathy for those that break the law.
There are ways to legally immigrate to the US. Use them. It won’t be to your immediate satisfaction schedule.....but to the pace the law demands.
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