Posted on 10/30/2007 4:05:13 PM PDT by dynachrome
Edited on 10/30/2007 4:29:15 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
MIAMI -- The parents of two South Florida teens who have been fighting deportation were forced to leave the United States on Tuesday.
Juan and Alex Gomez made national headlines in July when their family was arrested for being in the country illegally. Classmates of the Gomez brothers went to Washington, D.C., asking lawmakers to grant their asylum.
The family was temporarily released from federal custody, but on Tuesday, the Gomez brothers' mother, father and 84-year-old grandmother were forced to leave the United States.
And it only took 17 years.
“I don’t know what I’m going to do in Colombia,” said Julio Cesar Gomez, speaking in Spanish.”
At least he speaks the language.
Vaya con Dios!!!
It sure took long enough.
The whole family is welcome to leave.
“”I don’t know what I’m going to do in Colombia,” said Julio Cesar Gomez, speaking in Spanish. “I don’t know where we’re going to live.”
Find a way, thief!!
Cry me a river...
You COULD have applied for a green card, LONG AGO...
Breaks my heart!
Stay home next time and you won’t have to relive the experience.
"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
I wonder if htere is any way to tell if this family got any goodies from the taxpayers. (beyond free “education”. Didn’t even learn English! LOL)
Food stamps?
Section 8 housing?
etc....
And thanks to a poor excuse for a reporter, we don't know what Mr. Gomez was doing here. It is possible that had he spent part of the last 17 years working, paying taxes and learning English, he might generate a little more sympathy.
It is also possible that the reporter had an agenda and didn't want to ask those questions.
Illegal aliens got deported...
That is big news....
“I don’t know what I’m going to do in Colombia,”
My advice: Colombia has its own domestic education system. Every country does. Go to your local community college in Colombia and start a career after that.
Good luck!
Did you “know where to live when you snuck into America, Julio? “Wonderful people” don’t sneak into other people’s countries. They come in legally, and they learn English and they assimilate into American society. They don’t have to be deported.
NBC is concealing information.
After 10 years they would have been eligible for a hardship stay of deportation.
What were their criminal records beyond just the illegal alien status?
“It’s so un-American for us to be tearing families apart like this,” Little said. “This makes no sense.”
Noooooooooooo the family was not torn apart...
“on Tuesday, the Gomez brothers’ mother, father and 84-year-old grandmother were forced to leave the United States.”
See the family ALL left together...
He must have just missed the first amnesty.
That is more than enough time to get you immigration process staterd, free loaders.
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