Posted on 06/02/2006 11:07:16 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
A former Chelsea High honors student who came from Guatemala at age 12 is pleading to stay in the United States as federal authorities try to deport him and a Bay State congressman and local officials rally at his side.
“I have so many dreams, and this is the country where I want them to come true,” said Mario Rodas, 19. “I feel really upset. They could send me to a country away from my family and friends. It’s devastating.”
The case has put the thin, bookish young man with a passion for politics in the middle of a fierce battle over illegal immigration.
At a June 27 deportation hearing, Rodas faces a fate some people say represents everything that is wrong with the nation’s immigration laws. Others say that fate is the only thing about those laws that is still right.
“If we say, ‘It’s OK, lets disregard the law in the case of this one young man,’ what do we say to (millions) of others?” state Rep. Marie Parente said yesterday. “I feel sorry this happened to him, but this problem was created by his caretakers.”
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bostonherald.com ...
Maybe Kennedy or Kerry can work out an exchange program where one of their kids or grandkids goes and lives in Guatemala and this kid can stay here. ;o)
“This is a case that screams out for the reform of our immigration laws,” Capuano said. “(Rodas) has learned English, gotten an education and wants to be a citizen. He has done nothing wrong, other than be here illegally.”
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Personally, I think it screams out for Rodas to repay all the money ponied up for his education by the taxpayers.
I don't know, I think we need more kids like him in this country. Maybe we can send one of those spoiled Brookline x-box addicted add rich kids who have everything handed to them to Central America instead.
Presumably, he has no life whatsoever in Guatemala to return to. I swear the INS pursues these kinds of cases on purpose, as a gesture of "you want it, you got it."
Since the Ridiculous Herald doesn't identify his politics, I think it's safe to say he isn't a conservative, but a flaming liberal loon. Adios, Mario.
He could join the military and get on an expedited path to citizenship.
Heh, I like the way you think. :)
How about the lady from Georgia who had lived here, legally, for like thirty years, and then when Congress passed that "deport the criminals" law, the INS dug up some kind of plea she had copped to like twenty years ago, after a fight with her sister or something, and DEPORTED her, to GERMANY.
How about THAT?
He could join the military and get on an expedited path to citizenship.
He's 12 years old.
He could perhaps go back home and make his country a better place?
He's 12 years old.
He arrived here when he was 12, the article states:
A former Chelsea High honors student who came from Guatemala at age 12 is pleading to stay in the United States as federal authorities try to deport him and a Bay State congressman and local officials rally at his side.
He may have graduated from HS, and is now over 18.
"I swear the INS pursues these kinds of cases on purpose, as a gesture of "you want it, you got it."
I've been thinking that too!
Don't they have some MS13ers they could round up and throw out?
I want to take your American citizen child's spot in college.
I want your American citizen child's scholarship money.
I want to take an American citizen's social security benefits and social services.
I want to take an American citizen's job.
Ah yes, ... so MANY "dreams" that result in:
An American citizen child's NOT getting a spot in college.
An American citizen child's NOT getting scholarship money.
An American citizen NOT getting their social security benefits and other social services.
An American citizen being unemployed.
All so that illegal alien Parente can fulfill HIS dreams.
Sadly, their are MILLIONS of Parente's throughout America, robbing American citizens and tax payers of what is rightfully theirs BECAUSE they are citizens!
I know which Chelsea I'd like to deport.
No, wait... I'm thinking of Amy Carter. Oh, and her father too.
Adios.
Deport immediately.
Hard facts make bad case law.
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