Posted on 08/30/2007 6:59:33 AM PDT by vietvet67
PHOENIX (Reuters) - When a heavy knock came on the door of her Phoenix home, Mari knew that the immigration police had finally caught up with her. Arrested and held for a month in a U.S. jail, she was sent back to Guatemala on a prison flight.
But four weeks later, after raising a $5,000 smuggling fee, she was back with her family in Arizona.
As U.S. authorities step up deportations of illegal immigrants, a growing number of them, like Mari, are simply turning round and heading back stateside to rejoin families and resume their lives.
"Guatemala is no longer my home. All my roots are here in the country I have lived in since I was 15 years old ... I felt I had no option but to try to come back," said Mari, which is not her real name.
The little reported phenomenon of the repeat lawbreakers was highlighted by the high-profile case of Elvira Arellano, the Mexican illegal immigrant deported earlier this month for slipping back into the United States despite a previous removal in 1997.
"I know a lot of people in the same position as Elvira ... their whole life is here," said Mari's husband, Samuel, who is also an undocumented immigrant.
"If they throw them out of the country, sooner or later they will be back."
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
You can make $60K a year in Guatemala? Who knew? Considering the cost of living in a place like that is probably a lot less than the USA, why would anyone who had such a princely sum of money even want to consider coming back?
I guess getting the news story on these criminals is more important than turning them in to INS.
It probably came from all of the money she has been sending home every month.
“But four weeks later, after raising a $5,000 smuggling fee,”
Illegals claim they can`t make a living in their own countries, but can quickly raise $5,000 to pay a smuggler. Hmmm.
I imagine a lot of them are trying to get back before the 2008 elections. They know that Bill Clinton’s wife is counting on their “votes.”
“But four weeks later, after raising a $5,000 smuggling fee,”
And then they walk into American hospitals and demand free health care.
The gist of this article as I see it is Why Bother, just open the borders, forget Soveriegnty, abolish the laws, because these (Jimmy Carter (paraphrase) to his staff during his misAdministration “I don’t want them called Illegal Aliens, use “Undocumented Workers” terminology instead.”) will just keep coming back anyway.
So...I guess we should just “throw in the towel” and let them run us over. Reuter’s says so.
It is the same mentality they use in sex ed. They are going to be sexually active so...
Somebody (family in the US) probably wired her the money..........
Poor baby, she spent a month in jail. Now she is a deported alien, and her mere presence is one FELONY, her false papers another. She needs to spend about five YEARS in the slammer bfore her next trip back, and face at least twice that if she ever enters this Country again.
Is it a felony charge? Three strikes you’re out would apply then.
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