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A Deportation Tragedy
The Washington Post ^ | 6/29/2005 | Harold Meyerson

Posted on 07/01/2005 4:31:02 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak

By every measure but one, the Gonzalez family of Jefferson City, Mo., are model citizens. Marvin was a courier for then-Missouri Gov. Bob Holden, delivering messages and screening the governors mail, Marina taught Spanish and was the after-school care director at her parish grade school. Their daughter Marie was a star pupil at Helias High, on the track and tennis teams, with dreams of becoming a lawyer.

There was just one thing wrong with this picture: The Gonzalezes aren't citizens at all. They came to Jefferson City in 1991, legally, on a six-month visitor's visa from their native Costa Rica. They received some remarkably poor legal advice: that if they stayed, got steady jobs and sank roots into the community, they could become citizens in seven years. They held up their end of the bargain, however much of it may have been misrepresented to them in the first place. And for their troubles, the federal government has formulated its response: Next Tuesday it will deport the Gonzalezes back to Cost Rica.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
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'...remarkably poor legal advice...'

Scoff.

1 posted on 07/01/2005 4:31:02 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
They received some remarkably poor legal advice:

Remarkably poor??? Que? They were here for 14 years longer than they should have been.

2 posted on 07/01/2005 4:33:38 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (A lack of preparation on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.)
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak

The only tragedy is that they were allowed to break the law for 14 years straight without anything happening about it.


3 posted on 07/01/2005 4:35:07 PM PDT by thoughtomator (The legislative process is like the digestive process, same end product)
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak

Send them all home, allow them to reapply and wait in line. Then, those with jobs here can get green cards with a thumbprint so we can track them...(weed out terrorists). If they decide to apply for American citizenship, fine. Just do it legally. Twenty million illegals go back home while we strengthen our borders. This is the responsible, practical thing to do...but of course, we can't do that. It's insensitive. However, maybe the twenty million who went back home might put their new skills to work in Costa Rica or Mexico and make a difference. Uh, probably not.


4 posted on 07/01/2005 4:36:31 PM PDT by hershey
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
They held up their end of the bargain, however much of it may have been misrepresented to them in the first place.

Yeah, well. Them's the breaks. Adios.

5 posted on 07/01/2005 4:36:49 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (A lack of preparation on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.)
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak

Good, tell them See Ya!, and don't let the turnstile hit you in the backside on your way out.

We should also confiscate all their property, and sell it, then take the money and sink it into ensuring we get conservative SCOTUS Appointees put on the court.

They can go back and apply like the Millions have before them.

We could let more in legally if we stopped the freeloaders and illegals.

And I don't care what they did or did not do. It doesn't matter, they're CRIMINALS who broke the law, laughed at it for years and now it is finally catching up to them.

Tragedy, I would say the system worked in this case.

Regards,
Joe


6 posted on 07/01/2005 4:40:36 PM PDT by Sonar5 (60+ Million have Spoken Clearly - "We Want Our Country Back")
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
A Deportation Tragedy

Wapo gets it wrong here. Deport the Gonzalezes immediately and other illegals. Seal the borders.

7 posted on 07/01/2005 4:42:39 PM PDT by afnamvet (31st Fighter Wing Tuy Hoa AB RVN 68-69 "Return with Honor")
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak

The tragedy is that there are still 30 million left to deport.


8 posted on 07/01/2005 4:43:33 PM PDT by TERMINATTOR ("I believe in background checks at gun shows or anywhere" - GWB)
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
This story showed up here a couple of days ago and I see more now.

How does an illegal get a courier job for a governor?

Screening the governor's mail and delivering messages???

WTF!!!???!!!

Someone was in charge of getting that cushy job, right?

Some agency was involved with that job application and some people knew everything there was to know about senor Gonzalez.

So ...

Who was the agency and who were the people involved with getting this job.

The illegality, IMO, is secondary to the people trying to destroy us from within by greasing the ways for illegals to get these jobs.

What if Marvin had been Achmed?

9 posted on 07/01/2005 4:46:30 PM PDT by knarf (A place where anyone can learn anything ... especially that which promotes clear thinking.)
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak

If good, hardworking families want to come to the US, please do so legally.


10 posted on 07/01/2005 4:49:01 PM PDT by Bahbah (Something wicked this way comes)
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To: knarf
Agreed.
11 posted on 07/01/2005 4:53:03 PM PDT by meema
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Is this the same family? This article says they entered legally from CR on a 6-month VISA. It seems to me the other family's patriarch entered the US illegally 14 years ago. Could be wrong, though.

Either way, they don't get my sympathy.


12 posted on 07/01/2005 4:53:17 PM PDT by Theresawithanh (As long as Dean's the head of the D-N-C, it just looks better for the G-O-P!!)
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To: TERMINATTOR

And a Homeland Security Department to damn chicken to do their job.


13 posted on 07/01/2005 4:53:34 PM PDT by Jarhead1957 (Semper Fi)
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To: Theresawithanh

Same family:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1434152/posts


14 posted on 07/01/2005 5:04:08 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak (Stop the open borders death cult)
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To: Texas Eagle

And what bargain was that. You get to break the law and just lay low and all is forgiven. Maybe they don't keep up with current events. People from the 60's that committed murder thaought they could do the same thing....guess what.


16 posted on 07/01/2005 5:06:52 PM PDT by marty60
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To: iconoclast

What do you think...stay or go?


17 posted on 07/01/2005 5:08:35 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak (Stop the open borders death cult)
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To: The Jungian Thing

Well, welcome to FR, JT.


18 posted on 07/01/2005 5:09:39 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak (Stop the open borders death cult)
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
They received some remarkably poor legal advice

You don't need someone to tell you murder is wrong, or stealing, or burglary, etc. so my opinion is they knew it was wrong and took their chances and lost, well to bad.

Like any other criminal on the run from the law you may slip away and enjoy some sunshine, start to relax, start to think its all behind you and then one day BAM! off you go. The sad part is that if you have followed the law you might be legally free of the law today, now thats sad.
19 posted on 07/01/2005 5:10:48 PM PDT by TheForceOfOne (My tagline snapped the last time the MSM blew smoke up my ass. Now its gone forever.)
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak

Oh, I see it is, thanks. I was probably thinking about the "sob story" of another family facing deportation, I've seen so many.


20 posted on 07/01/2005 5:11:47 PM PDT by Theresawithanh (As long as Dean's the head of the D-N-C, it just looks better for the G-O-P!!)
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