Illegal Arizona Family Deported After Son Found With Pot at School

Associated Press ^ | Nov 6, 2007

[cowboy_code]

TUCSON, Ariz. — A Tucson high school student and his family were deported after the teen was found with marijuana at school and police called the U.S. Border Patrol after learning he and his family were illegal immigrants.

The incident raised concern among immigrants rights activists, but Tucson police said the officer acted appropriately by calling immigration agents.

Police were called to Catalina High Magnet School Thursday after school officials found a small amount of marijuana in the backpack of a ninth-grader who appeared to be under the influence, said Chyrl Hill Lander, a spokeswoman for the Tucson Unified School District.

Police then asked the boy's parents to come to the school, and once they arrived an officer asked to see their driver's licenses. The parents told officers they had been living illegally in the U.S. for six years, along with the ninth-grader and their 17- and 12-year-old sons, assistant police chief Roberto Villasenor said Monday.

[SmoothTalker]

Good. One down, a lot more to go. Everyone of these criminals who comes to light should be send home.

[SmoothTalker]

If cops bust a kid and find out the family are criminals they’d lock ‘em up. Why do these “activists” think this is any different?

[goldstategop]

The Tucson police officer did the right thing! Those are exactly the kind of people we don't want to welcome to our country.

"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

[rhombus]

Breaking news?

[RosieCotton]

Wow...this is a story that’s gonna tie some FReepers up in knots...

[Lijahsbubbe]

Okay, I’ll be the one to say it. Just smoking the weed Americans don’t want to smoke.

[goldstategop]

To the Open Borders Crowd, there's no difference between criminal illegals and other illegals. They both deserve to be amnestied.

"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

[dennisw]

This dopey family must be the unluckiest Mexicans in Arizona. You have to make a sincere effort to get your arse deported

[rhombus]

Breaking news?

[cowboy_code]

It's about time. Start geting rid of the convicted dopers, gang members, criminals, pedophiles, drunk-drivers, bail-jumpers, and the rest.

[lilylangtree]

This is a good thing. Unfortunately, it was only one when hundreds of thousands are still at large.

[goldstategop]

Pot? I thought they had to have a dead girl or live boy in their bed for that to happen at all.

"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

[Lijahsbubbe]

LOL, that’s true!

[goldstategop]

Yep. 13 million to go.

"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

[beckaz]

immigrants rights activists...

That's ILLEGAL immigrants rights activists, or rather rabble-rousers and law breakers themselves.

An immigrants rights proponent

Again, a proponent of ILLEGAL immigrants right...

And so on...

[Joe 6-pack]

"Breaking news?"

Sounds more like "busted" news to me ;-)

[goldstategop]

The MSM lies about Open Borders. The people advocating it mean to undermine rather than strengthen the United States. But don't look for the press to acknowledge it.

"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

[VR-21]

"Now you have people who are afraid to call the police when they have been robbed because they are afraid the police will come and instead of investigating the crime will ask them about their immigration status," said Jennifer Allen, director of Tucson-based Border Action Network."

I'll bet if Jennifer has a parrot at home, it can say that too.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

"Now you have people who are afraid to call the police when they have been robbed because they are afraid the police will come and instead of investigating the crime will ask them about their immigration status," said Jennifer Allen, director of Tucson-based Border Action Network.

The solution is real simple, Jennifer. So do the right thing and become a legal citizen instead of slunking around the gutter living your life like a fugitive.

I have no sympathy for people who make themselves vulnerable to sleazy under-the-table employers, blackmail artists, and arrest/deportation if they're involved in something as simple as a traffic ticket or fender-bender. It's their fault for subjecting their kids to living on-the-lam, it's not the fault of society or the cops who enforcing laws that 80% of American citizens support (and 98% of legal immigrants).

I'm sick of these sob stories about how enforcing the nation's immigration laws tears apart families and subjects them to suffering. If they lived their lives like normal decent people, it wouldn't be happening. It's their fault, not everyone else's!