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The Plascencias' problems began in 1996 when they applied for permanent residency. Their attorney advised them to seek asylum, but that was the same year President Clinton signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, which raised the number of years to qualify for residency from seven to 10.
It also required asylum applicants to prove an extreme hardship.
While they did apply for asylum before the new law went into effect, the INS didn't look at their case until that September. As a result, it was denied.

I get ticked off as well as anybody else regarding illegals who use this country as an ATM machine and only want to live like Americans, not become one. However, here I don't see where they were on welfare, so I take it at least one parent was working.

More importantly, as emphasized in boldface, they tried going by the rules and got bit by bureaucracy - what kind of crap is the INS pulling? THEY were the ones who were late in processing the application, which was presented on time.

Until a little more info on these people, such as jobs, speaking American, etc. come out, I'd cut them a little slack.

People like this are making a joke out of "asylum" ---- they aren't going to be killed if they go back home --- the word needs to be reserved for those cases that really do face exteme persecution.

they tried going by the rules

Nonsense. An asylum application is for people who are politically repressed and fear the government in their home country. Mexico's government is one of the world's most corrupt, but it is not cruel or oppressive.

Asylum is a dodge beloved by "immigration attorneys" to get their welfare recips into the country without actually following the usual rules. If someone is from North Korea, Cuba, Iran, his application is worth taking seriously. Asylum applicants from Mexico are simply overlawyered frauds.

By the way, the lawyer gets a percentage of the welfare... that's how this deal works for the attorney. Write a couple letters, get 10% of this family's take for a year (which will be about $49k if neither parent works over-the-table).

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