Assume that the lady admitted that she was the armed robber who robbed the local bank yesterday! Would the judge have her arrested? Or would he count to 20 so that she can disappear? What part of 'illegal' doesn't this judge understand???????
From another source:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-illegal20jul20,0,5891326.story?coll=la-home-headlines
In last Friday's hearing in Pomona, Fink asked Gonzalez if she was in fact an illegal immigrant.
"I'm illegal," she said.
"I hate the immigration laws that we have," the judge responded, according to the court transcript, "but I think the bailiff could take you to the immigration services and send you to Mexico. Is that what you guys want?"
Fink then asked Salgado if he wanted his wife deported. Salgado replied he was helping his wife get her legal papers, according to the transcript.
"But she's an illegal alien, right?" Fink said. "She has no right to be here at this point, correct?
"Yes," Salgado said.
At that point, Fink warned Gonzalez to either leave his courtroom or risk arrest.
"I'm going to count to 20, and if you people have left this courtroom and disappeared, she isn't going to Mexico forthwith," Fink said, according to the court transcript. "One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. When I get to 20, she gets arrested and goes to Mexico."
After Gonzalez left the courtroom, Fink asked Salgado if he wanted to stay, and he said yes.
Fink then dismissed the case: "Well, she brought the proceedings, and if she's not here to go forward, I guess all of the requests are denied."
On Wednesday, Fink, who has been a family law attorney for 35 years, insisted he was seeking what he thought was an agreeable solution for both parties.
"What I saw was nothing more than some yelling and screaming between a husband and wife," he said.
"I also saw that they really didn't want to not be together anymore."
If he had issued the restraining order, Fink said, "we'd wind up with exactly the opposite of what these people wanted."
"The cure could be far worse than the illness," he said.