Posted on 05/05/2005 10:14:09 AM PDT by iconoclast
In the predawn semidarkness of a small West Toledo apartment, Dae and Yung Jung stumbled toward the thumping at their front door.
Seconds later, officers in dark jackets emblazoned with Homeland Security crammed into the couple's living room demanding passports and drivers' licenses. Mrs. Jung was escorted to jail. Upstairs, the couple's son, Andrew, hid, stunned and baffled.
Now, five weeks later, immigration officials still press for Yung and Dae Jung's deportation to their native land, South Korea. But the couple - Dae Jung is a sushi chef; Yung Jung is a longtime school volunteer - are finding that their support from their churches, their son's school, and even a congressman is continuing to mount.
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Plain enough?
Plain enough Dick, sounds like a little piece of Nevada might be though.
If they were here MORE than ten years then they are entitled to apply for the rolling amnesty program.
I do not find it outragious since more likely than not they will now be subject to the system and through the appeals process be forced to become legal or leave.
interesting...
Hope you're right, but I'm not certain they have the best counsel.
My idea would be for them to take a “vacation” to South Korea and stay just long enough to prepare the paper work to come here legally.
Too bad. If they had done it legally, they might be full citizens by now. If that is what they wanted.
Like the rest of the people who are waiting in line for their turn and abiding by our laws. Wonder what they think?
On the other hand, the U.S. government can be painfully slow. Maybe we need to fix the process.
Hang 'em High!
Why do I get the feeling that if we changed the words "Dae Jung", "Yung Jung" and "Korea" for "José Rodríguez", "María Rodríguez" and "Mexico", most Freepers would be calling for their immediate deportation???
The same folks that want hardcore immigration law enforcement, now then turn around and are willing to bend them a little bit.
Laws are to be enforced equally. No exceptions. No preference.
Sure as hell my parents, my sisters and I didn't benefit from any exceptions or preferences when we had to wait 11 years to come here legally.
P.S: Partial Colombia ping included.
If he is here illegally he derserves this harassment. When his visa ran out he should have left. He was here fraudulantly and therefore was asked to leave. I don't care how nice he is, he broke the law and now must stand for the consequences.
All of you defending this guy sound like liberals, this is the kind of excuse making they do to justify the law breaking that they regularly take part in. Now you are doing it because you know this man. I know a man who murdered his ex-wife, shot her in the back. He was the nicest guy I have ever known but I think he should be right where he is, in Mule Creek Prison in CA.
It doesn't matter how many illegals are getting away with this crap, that doesn't mean we give this one a free pass. I am for finding all of them and deporting them all, nice or not.
So, do YOU know why the governement got interested in them?
susie
I know I am right about the ten years. I don't know the particulars of their story.
I think this is more a case of 9 years just short of ten.
Any competent attorney can find out about the forms and procedure. An attorney seeking out PR in the media in an immigration case sounds like desperation (and a lack of knowledge).
Read my post #20. Its a shame that middle and upper class professionals and entrepreneurs from Latin America are given the SHAFT by the INS, while the INS does nothing to enforce the law against the masses of day laborers and criminals that enter the US on a daily basis (largely from ONE country).
You are correct; ILLEGAL IS ILLEGAL, no matter where they are from. I know alot of Freepers like to hold up Asiatics as a "model minority" (guess they never lived among Hmong), but whether they are from Korea, Poland, or Mexico, ILLEGALS MUST BE DEPORTED TOMORROW!!!
Clearly you have a personal reason for your interest in this story. However, I don't know these people, I don't know you, and I cannot tell enough from this story to convince me that this is truely a mistake, and there are indications, in the story (yes, that story designed to pull our heartstrings) that these folks did not follow the law. BTW the story states they had (at one point) a lawyer. So, if they got bad legal advice, whose fault is that?
I'm sorry that you feel people here are not being fair, but you probably should just take a deep breath and realize it doesn't matter what any of us here think, we aren't going to be able to do anything, other than tell you our opinions. If you don't like them, hey, you have only lost the time it took to read them.
susie
I don't know a heck of lot more than what I've stated. About the only thing I've personally seen were the tears rolling down the cheeks of this good, hard working, law abiding (at least the ones you and I have to concern ourselves with), heartbroken husband as he received a small check from his church to go toward the expense of this Kafkaesque morass that he finds himself in.
But .... you may be right .... nothing to see here... move along. There'll be another Cuban kid or a mother shot by the ATF to momentarily catch our eye any minute. CRIMINALS ALL! You're clearly correct suze, nothing to see here, move along.
Helllooo ........ a lot if not most are!
If you have a good story about Jose or Maria post it.
You know, you probably are just too personally involved in this to see it from the bigger perspective. If they broke the law, as sad as that may be, they broke the law. You don't get to break laws if you can just cry big enough tears later. I can feel sorry for them and still see why they may possibly have to leave the country.
But, as I said, I don't have enough information from what you have said and from what the article said to give a for sure opinion. And, I am still bothered by an article designed to play on my sympathy. I inherently don't trust them to give me information that the author thinks might not further his or her cause (which in this case seems to be to make the govenrment the bad guy and the immigrants the good ones).
Sorry if you that doesn't meet with your approval.
susie
Actually, I don't think THEY know.
Why don't you put your imagination to work on trying to even GUESS why. With literally millions pouring over our borders THIS poor family of model citizens that first came here LEGALLY in 1984 are being singled out for persecution
Get back to me when it makes sense to you.
Personal attacks upon myself do not change the fact that this Christian family, regardless of how deserving, did not follow our laws.
I did not equate this family with the 9/11 hijackers. I equated the way this family exploited the student visa program and the way tehe 9/11 hijackers exploited the student visa program.
As you read the original story, this family spent 10 years here on a student visa, went back to Seoul, then got homesick and tried to return here again on another student visa.
How is this fair to those people waiting for a legitimate immigration visa?
Sadly, I think you're right. Lard assed bureaucrats can be devilishly timely every now and again.
Any competent attorney can find out about the forms and procedure
Once again I believe you are onto a critical factor.
So you agree that the immigration laws of the United States are to be selectively applied???
Now tell me, what makes Dae and Yung so special over José and María that the former get a pass, but the latter don't???
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