Collateral Damage In The Immigration War

GOPUSA ^ | January 19, 2007 | Linda Chavez

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

I tried to find his DEROS date, but couldn't....I stumbled across this, which shows he was in Iraq during Jul '05....(Gpa's obit, scroll to Thorston)

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ut/weber/obits/se/2005/jul/se28jul2005.txt

[shekkian]

OHHH SPARE ME!!!!!

[sheana]

Hey Linda, how about you are an American citizen, go to Iraq, come home on leave and on Thanksgiving get killed by an illegal drunk driver.
I have much more sympathy for him.

[Fledermaus]

Cry me a river. Linda uses the code words "anti-immigration" to describe anyone that is sick and tired of the millions that just ignore our borders and come here illegally.

It's worse than tactics used by the left and she should be ashamed of herself.

[JRochelle]

Dear Linda,

I know that sending illegals back to where they came from will affect how clean your home is, how clean and ironed your laundry is and how often your lawn gets mowed.

I'll just say, TOO F***ING BAD!

Your sob story just doesn't do it for me. Simply a case that will be fixed, and certianly not the norm.

JROCHELLE

[Conservative4Ever]

...Congress' failure to resolve the dilemma of what to do with 12.5 million illegal aliens living here.

Wait a minute...the MSM has been telling us it is only 6-8 million./s Congress has done nothing about the illegal immigration problem in the US.

[VOA]

bump

[Red_Devil 232]

Wow good work! I read the Obit. Hard to believe he was in country (Iraq) without a home leave for a year and a half. I just played the scenario out as "MS Linda" presented to us. Rules are rules.

[djf]

Agreed. He's a citizen in good standing and ought to be able to marry whoever he choses anywhere in the world and bring them to America based on his good name and service.

Gummint is out of line on this one.

[supercat]

This is called propaganda.

Either that or the INS/ICE is trying to weasel out of its job by enforcing laws only in the most unpopular contexts. While I'd rather see us control the borders, abolishing the INS/ICE and officially declaring a free-for-all would probably be better than the status quo.

[TheLion]

"Wait a minute...the MSM has been telling us it is only 6-8 million./s Congress has done nothing about the illegal immigration problem in the US."

Exactly. BTW, the INS recently said 10 million got in just last year. There are probably 50 million here.

[LibertarianInExile]

"This complicates matters because the child is not automatically an American citizen and now, too, must get permission to come to the U.S."

I call OBLshite. If Aaron is an American, so is his child. More sob storying that ignores the fact that the federal government has built a system that prides itself on ignoring illegals and driving away those who apply for legal residence. There is no doubt in my mind that if she'd simply never applied to legally emigrate, she'd still be here, squirting out 'unquestionably' American kids. The solution the author proposes, of course, is to open the door to everyone instead of temporarily closing it to new immigrants, completely closing it to illegals, and prioritizing spouse and child immigration apps so stories like this are things of the past. What the author here wants is to abolish the immigration policing system instead of fixing it, and make the problem worse by increasing its workload to simply catch the bad `uns after they're here (fat chance of that being successful).

[taxed2death]

Where've you been?

Tony Snow admitted earlier in the week that there were 20 million illegals!

[gubamyster]

ping

[Spiff]

Cry me a freakin' river.

Imagine you've just given a year and a half of your life to serving your country in Iraq and come home to find that your pregnant wife and your toddler daughter have been forced to leave the United States and now the government won't let them back in.

Let me fix that first sentence. Imagine you've just given a year and a half of your life to serving your country in Iraq and come home to find that your pregnant wife and your toddler daughter have been forced to leave the United States and now the government won't let them back in caught trespassing in the U.S. and given a free ride back home without any additional penalties. Now, think of it this way:

Imagine you've just given a year and a half of your life to serving your country in Iraq and come home to find that

[Conservative4Ever]

Apparently not listening to Tony Snow.

[3AngelaD]

This is just what the media does to paint a false picture of illegal immigration in our country: they take a case so completely out of the ordinary as to be outrageous, and write about in a way that makes it seem horrible and cruel for us to enforce our laws, In fact, this case is an exception to the rule. We all know what the vast majority of illegal immigration amounts to, and we know why our laws need to be rigorously enforced. Why are so many reporters such liars and propagandists?