Posted on 07/18/2007 11:39:22 PM PDT by Daralundy
WASHINGTON — An estimated 1.6 million children and spouses have been separated from family members forced to leave the country under toughened 1996 immigration laws, a human rights group said Wednesday.
The separations have taken a toll on families who have sold homes, lost jobs, lost businesses or been thrown into financial turmoil, Human Rights Watch said in a new report.
The widespread impact on American families has been truly devastating, said Alison Parker, a senior researcher with Human Rights Watch.
In 1996, Congress toughened immigration laws making immigrants, legal and illegal, deportable according to an expanded list of "aggravated felonies."
Congress made the law retroactive even to those who had served their sentences, and also eliminated hearings in which judges could consider an immigrant's family, community roots, military service or possible persecution in his or her native country.
Since this law was passed, 672,593 immigrants have been deported for crimes, according to statistics cited in the report from Citizenship and Immigration Services, a division of the Homeland Security Department. Human Rights Watch used those numbers and Census data on foreign-born households to estimate how many family members were left behind in the U.S.
Opposition to Senate Immigration Bill Republicans Upset Over Video on How to Hire Cheap Immigrant Labor Immigration Reform Could Be Key to Influential Latino Vote in 2008 According to statistics from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (or ICE), 64.6 percent of immigrants deported in 2005 had been convicted of nonviolent offenses. An additional 20.9 percent were deported for crimes involving violence against people, and 14.7 percent were deported for "other" crimes.
"How do you explain to a child that her father has been sent thousands of miles away and can never come home simply because he forged a check?" Parker said.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Yeah like that's no big deal...these people come from countries with corrupt governments and general anarchy and lawlessness...and they try to bring that with them... I have not one shred of sympathy ...deport them now....
YES. I know several. One married her Mexican-born husband while he was on a student visa; another, was about to get married when the fiance’s visa expired... was she supposed to stay illegally or what. I know others who have had to change careers and take much lower paying jobs, so they can commute into the U.S. from Mexico, which will allow the foreign spouse to stay.
The article focused on illegals and deportees, but this is a bigger problem then people realize. Despite what you’ve seen in the movies, marriage (or being engaged to) a U.S. citizen doesn’t give you an automatic right to stay in the country, and the bureaucracy — even for those playing by the rules — is byzantine and moves at a snail’s pace.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
huh ? Short memories...CUSA started in 1996 ...Clinton/Gore Fastracked approx. 1.6 million immigrants, to get ‘em on the voter roles in time for the 1996 election.
Here’s what we got:
The White House, the INS, and the Justice Department publicly denied any political motive in the CUSA program to expedite the citizenship procedure. What the United States got is undeniable:
-More than 75,000 new citizens who had arrest records when they applied;
-An additional 115,000 whose fingerprints were unclassifiable for various technical reasons and were never resubmitted; and
-Another 61,000 people who were given citizenship with no fingerprints submitted at all.
Immigration lawyer industry planted “story” on the AP mouthpiece.
So the convicted murderer/rapist/burglar dad has to return to the Turd World?
Buh Bye.
LMAO!!! How about like this?:
"Little girl, your daddy got ran over by a train."
Nobody separates anybody. The family members are welcome to go back with their spouse or other family member. If my wife were sent to Mexico, I would be by her side every moment.
What am I going to say," Sorry honey, have a good trip but I ain't going"? Or how about "Me and mommy are going away little Jr, I hope you make it here OK." You take your children with you or you don't deserve to raise them anyway.
I've been fuming all week about the queers bitchin about being separated. You knew he was queer and from another country, so SHAADAPP! If you "love" him, follow him to his country!
Well, boohoohoo. My Grandfather came to America with the clothes on his back and a few kopecks Worked at labor until he had money to send his family so another family member could come from Russia.
Same thing for my Grandmother from Poland. Her sister came first and sent her money to take a boat (steerage) to America. The rest of her (their) large family remained behind forever and likely was slaughtered in the War.
They never cried and wailed that somebody should give them freebies..That is what POs me about this today.
So, where’s the Human Rights Watch report describing the absolutely horrid conditions, corruption, and exploitation that drove 12 to 20 million Mexican citizens to leave their own nation? That’s the story the Human Rights Watch group needs to report, how they were driven from their native land, separated from their families back home.
Great post. BUMP
It is their only way to cope with being overrun recently on the federal level and very recently on the local level starting in various localities telling them to shove it.
They will still start on the sob stories. We had better work some counter arguments, while still staying on the offensive.
I dont think this emotional tact will work. It does indeed show they are desperate. When they run out of this explanation and it falls on deaf ears, they will either have to start the self deporting, or dig their heels in and turn to more demonstrations or even violence.
It has been the experience of many that criminals are generally separated from their families. THEM’S THE BREAKS.
Lord, you certainly have a way with words!! Way to go.
Unite them back in their own country, i.e., repatriate them.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.