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A cause celebre in Minnesota, a criminal in Boston
Boston Globe ^ | September 25, 2006 | Raja Mishra

Posted on 09/25/2006 3:11:56 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

A Mexican illegal immigrant once embraced by Minnesotans as a deserving charity case pleaded guilty today to breaking and entering in Boston.

Francisco Javier Serrano's plea means his strange American odyssey will end where it began: He will be deported to Mexico.

Serrano, 22, was found last year living inside a Minneapolis high school, his tale of struggle and homelessness galvanizing locals as news of his plight spread. News accounts dubbed him the "Apple Valley High squatter," and Serrano told his newfound friends that he sought to attend a US college and become an inventor. Soon, he had a rent-free downtown apartment, an immigration lawyer, and a wealthy benefactor.

Still, his bid to stay in the United States failed, and he tearfully boarded a plane back to Mexico on Jan. 5. Or so thought his supporters, who came to see him off at the airport.

In April, he turned up in Boston's North End, where police arrived to find Serrano in a struggle with an apartment tenant. He was arrested and charged with breaking and entering. His Minnesota supporters were shocked and disillusioned. Serrano has been held in Suffolk County Jail since on $25,000 cash bail and an immigration retainer.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Massachusetts; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: boston; illegalimmigrant; illegalimmigration; illegals; minnesota; northend; serrano
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1 posted on 09/25/2006 3:11:58 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Don't expect we'll see FR's "Pro-Illegal" fans on this thread.
2 posted on 09/25/2006 3:13:50 PM PDT by BW2221
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
His Minnesota supporters were shocked and disillusioned.

Stupid morons.

You can take the illegal out of mexico but you can't take the mexico out of an illegal.

3 posted on 09/25/2006 3:14:29 PM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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To: BW2221
Don't expect we'll see FR's "Pro-Illegal" fans on this thread.

We have those?

4 posted on 09/25/2006 3:15:01 PM PDT by Scourge of God (Remember, liberals, 'baaa' means NO!)
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To: BW2221
Don't expect we'll see FR's "Pro-Illegal" fans on this thread.

Wouldn't suprise me if we did. They don't seem to ever see anything wrong with these guys.

5 posted on 09/25/2006 3:15:22 PM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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To: Scourge of God

I think anyone who is not for mining the border and rounding up anyone with a Hispanic last name and putting them in ovens is deemed "pro-Illegal alien" by some here.


6 posted on 09/25/2006 3:17:01 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Lezahal)
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To: Dane; staytrue
Why do the open border pimps stay away from these threads?

They were on the thread when he was caught in the school and used it as a sob story.
I say to them SOB, SOB.
7 posted on 09/25/2006 3:17:57 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: MplsSteve

Ping....


8 posted on 09/25/2006 3:20:52 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
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To: BW2221
My beautiful wife is a Mexican national; If you knew how much money and BS we went through to stay within the law and get her legal....had we known that all she had to do was walk from Mexicali to Calexico, all of 3 miles.....
9 posted on 09/25/2006 3:21:14 PM PDT by Mikey_1962 (If you build it, they won't come...)
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To: MeanWestTexan

You're generalizing about people generalizing about people.

The irony is delicious. :-)


10 posted on 09/25/2006 3:22:55 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs (You can do that, and be a whack-job pedophile on meth.)
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To: raybbr

There aren't a lot of politically astute people in Minnesota. I think the cold winters affect common sense.


11 posted on 09/25/2006 3:24:55 PM PDT by BW2221
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To: LongElegantLegs

Generally. Exceptions abound.


12 posted on 09/25/2006 3:30:30 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Lezahal)
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To: raybbr

He was the cause celeb for all the socialists at the Star & Tribune. Just like Kathlene Soliah, (The Symbionese Liberation Army member wanted by the FBI) it blew up in their faces when they were both convicted of crimes and sent to prison.


13 posted on 09/25/2006 3:31:46 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: BW2221

There are plenty of astute, politically active and aware people in Minnesota. 52% of them just happen to be Communists.


14 posted on 09/25/2006 3:33:08 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: MeanWestTexan

Really, the answer to all this is simple.

Build that double-decker wall along the border. Then allow Mexicans to line up on their side, and American employers to line up on the other. The American employers have to pay at least minimum wage to the Mexicans, with health benefits, then transport them to the job for the duration, and back to the border when the job is done.


15 posted on 09/25/2006 3:36:30 PM PDT by Scourge of God (Remember, liberals, 'baaa' means NO!)
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To: BW2221

Wonder if this was his first time stealing? :-)


16 posted on 09/25/2006 3:37:28 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody want a peanut.....)
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To: BW2221
You're being too generous. There are a lot of MORONS here. Drive around the Twin Cities for an hour and that will become readily apparent.
17 posted on 09/25/2006 3:37:52 PM PDT by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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To: BW2221; MplsSteve

Hey now, don't make me pull my ping list on you.


18 posted on 09/25/2006 3:39:31 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
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To: Sawdring; BW2221; ButThreeLeftsDo

Right. Absolutely. At least they provide for some laughs when we're on the road, driving around in their cars plastered with loser decals (Scary-Leftwards '04, Wellstone, etc.)


19 posted on 09/25/2006 3:42:20 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
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To: Scourge of God

Far too many by my count.


20 posted on 09/25/2006 3:47:12 PM PDT by ECM (Government is a make-work program for lawyers.)
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