A tale of hope gets a jarring new chapter (A must read)

It was a story that touched the hearts of Minnesotans. But now it has taken a surprising turn, in Boston.

A homeless, 22-year-old, undocumented immigrant from Mexico was found secretly living inside a Twin Cities high school last year, using the showers and foraging for cafeteria food. Francisco Javier Serrano's story captivated the news media there and moved a wealthy developer to provide him with money, an immigration attorney, and a rent-free apartment overlooking downtown Minneapolis.

But immigration officials ordered Serrano back to Mexico. Officials believed that he boarded a plane for his home country Jan. 5, and it seemed to be a closed case.

Then, two weeks ago, a tenant in Boston's North End heard a sound inside his apartment. A man with a knife had broken in. The tenant struck the intruder with a kitchen pan, and police responded to find Serrano and the tenant in a struggle, authorities said.

Now, Serrano sits in Suffolk County Jail facing charges of home invasion. And authorities, the friends he made in Minnesota, and even his mother in Mexico City are trying to figure out how and why the baby-faced, quiet man ended up in a stranger's apartment in Boston.

And now taxpayers will get to foot his prison bill for possibly 2 1/2 years! The wealthy developer should have to pay for his prison sentence. What a great "cause" to give money to - a guy who enters into the country ILLEGALLY, BREAKS into a high school and STEALS, and then ATTACKS an innocent U.S. citizen. How many laws has this "undocumented worker" broken already? If any American citizen broke into a high school to forage for food and use the showers, you can bet your sweet @ss they would have been thrown in jail immediately. But this illegal gets a rent-free apartment and a free attorney. And is anyone out there the least bit concerned that this illegal was prowling around high school girls?

Uh... because he's a stinking criminal?

LOL! Gotta love . An armed, dangerous criminal breaks-into some guy's apartment and the Fishwrap says that he "somehow found himself there" as if he'd been beamed-in by a rogue starship.

"...Because Serrano has no history of violence and did not hurt the tenant, prosecutors expect to downgrade the charge of home invasion to breaking and entering, said David Procopio, spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley..."

Mercury poisoning is a terrible thing, in the damage it does to the minds of certain district attorneys.

Did... not... hurt... the... tenant?

Not only the tenant, but every other apartment dweller in the city and all over America can wave goodbye to the cherished notion of safety in their homes.

The liberal establishment has declared that having to fight for your life with a knife-armed intruder is now considered a citizen's cross to bear, and no big deal. No harm done.

After all, the only important thing is to endulge wealthy developers' thirsts for sanctimony, and ability to "save" the downtrodden.

Any doubts as to whether the unfortunate "citizenship impaired" victim of all this will be released on his own recognizance, and expected to voluntarily report to "counseling" afterwards.

Scotty, beam me up.

"...Let's see. If a man armed with a knife breaks into my apartment late at night and I manage to fight him off, does this mean that he is not violent? Will he get off with a simple charge of breaking and entering? Amazing!..."

Breaking and entering? Well, let's look at this from the defense attorney's point of view.

Breaking: ... The only reason that the door broke was that greedy small business carpenters used substandard wood in its construction. In fact, the suspect could have been injured on the sharded edges. You will be lucky if he doesn't sue you.

Entering: ... The only reason that the suspect entered is that hundreds of years ago your ancestors stole the land that your apartment is built on from his ancestors. Of course that was hundreds of years after they stole that same land from the Indians. And that was hundreds of years after the Indians stole that land from the Pueblo people. And that was hundreds of years after- ... but, silly me, I digress.

There are millions of them now in someone's apartment, and we certainly can't kick all of them out. The best thing to do, if they have been in your apartment for a certain length of time, is to have them pay a small fine, and then be allowed to apply for a certain percentage of your apartment. They can claim for ownership of your spare bedroom, and prove squatters' rights to your commode. (Sorry, couldn't help myself.)

This will, of course, mean that any apartment rules you set down will need to be posted also in Spanish, Columbian, and a variety of other languages, in order to satisfy the Kennedy-Sarbanes Fairness in Burglary act of 2006.

It seems to me that you will be lucky if you are allowed to stay. After all, they are merely breaking into millions of the kinds of apartments that Americans "...just don't seem to want to break into..."

Make things easy: leave the keys in the mailbox as you move out.

We'll put an extra plate on the table for you.

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