This is not the typical case, this man is married to an American born citizen....why is he being deported?
Too bad, enforce the existing laws to its fullest extent, deport and let them petition from their countries of origin. We have suffered from 20 years of abuse...no mas!
No more lawbreakers needed!
His parents recently became citizens after seven years in the system, but the paperwork they started for their children was nullified as each turned 21, Sadie said.
If this is true, or even close to it, then I'm on his side.
Marrying an American citizen may make one eligible for a green card...but you still need to file the application with INS (now BCIS), submit to a medical exam (so we know that you're not bringing in communicable diseases) and your spouse needs to sponsor you (essentially guarantee economic support for the immigrant for a 10 year period so that he won't become a public charge...sounds like its possible the wife may not make enough to sponsor the husband? (there are income requirements)).
To generate a media sob story so we will agree to make around 20 million of his compatriots citizens with an asinine piece of amnesty legislation.
It is sort of like when the taxpayers revolt against city hall and the city reacts, not by trimming back the employment of do-nothing city workers and junkets for bureaucrats, but by closing public swimming pools and police stations.
It's atypical in that he came legally (apparently) with his parents when he was 13. His parents are now citizens.
What's typical is that after 15 years here (and presumably junior high and high school in the US), he doesn't speak good English and didn't bother to inform himself of the law that meant when he became an adult, he had to submit his own paperwork.
Had the guy learned English well, he would have been able easily to determine what he had to do to become a citizen and could have done so.
If only on the grounds that he figured he didn't have to learn English and become a citizen in a timely manner, he should be forceably deported.
Of course, hard cases make bad law, and it will put the wife and kids in a tough position: go to Mexico with hubby or stay here as a single mother. It sucks to be her. But that's not a reason to excuse the man.
This is the typical case in this respect.
Our MASSIVE legal immigration and our lack of enforcement makes it easy for people to be here illegally. This blurs the line between legal and illegal immigrant, to the point where this ‘hard case’ happens often.
Many family have both legal and illegal immigrants in the same household. yet to deport the illegal we get sob story... but it was a choice made by the family.
I question the timing of this story, as we saw the same ‘hard luck’ cases reported last spring. The media wants amnesty and will report any story they can to support that view.
How much mileage will the Fort Dix story get?
That's the point.