Posted on 02/28/2008 9:00:27 PM PST by kellynla
Henry Fuentes closes his eyes and tries to sleep. But he can't. He is restless. He looks out the airplane window. This may be the last time he sees the United States. In less than three hours, he will land in El Salvador, a country he hasn't seen in eight years.
Fuentes hadn't planned on returning.
Immigration agents arrested him at his Houston apartment last month. Now the government was flying him and 115 other illegal immigrants back to Central America. Some had just crossed the border. Others, like Fuentes, had spent years in the United States and held jobs, owned cars and started families.
Like Fuentes, most of the deportees have mixed feelings about being sent home. They are angry about being deported but relieved to be out of detention. They are excited to return to their roots but frustrated by the country's lack of work. They are anxious to be reunited with relatives in El Salvador but distraught about leaving spouses and children behind in the U.S.
"It's very, very hard for me," Fuentes said as he leaned his head back against the seat. "I feel bad, very bad. I feel happiness because I am going to see my children again. I haven't seen them in eight years. But I feel sadness because I left my children behind."
The federal government has stepped up its immigration enforcement in recent years, resulting in record numbers of detainees. Authorities are trying to free up bed space by deporting illegal immigrants quickly and efficiently.
Their primary tool is a fleet of planes used to send home nearly 72,000 illegal immigrants, including about 14,100 criminals, to Central and South America in the 2007 fiscal year.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
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yeah right
And caused the deaths of four children when they crashed their car into a school bus.
Whisky Tango Foxtrot???
In other words he dumped his wife and kids in El Salvador, skipped to the states where he lived for eight years, managed to plant another batch of kiddies... and is now heading back where he is happy because he is going to see the kids he lamed out on eight years ago.
I'm supposed to feel sorry for this scumbag?
Am I missing something?
Well, I'm twice as angry that they were here, and twice as relieved that they are gone.
Lemme guess, more on the way.
Bears repeating!
“Their primary tool is a fleet of planes used to send home nearly 72,000 illegal immigrants, including about 14,100 criminals, to Central and South America in the 2007 fiscal year.”
14,100 are criminals out of 72K....that’s TWENTY PERCENT ARE CRIMIINALS! And 14,100 that we won’t have to incarcerate and opens up 14,100 slots for American criminals! Like I’ve been saying for years, we should deport ALL incarcerated foreigners which would not only lower prison & jail costs nationally but would open up slots for AMERICAN criminals who are roaming about the country unabated. There is no reason why American taxpayers should have to pay to incarcerate other countries’ criminals!
Maybe the Feds are finally “Getting it!” LOL
Chertoff - Focus on the d@mn Mexican criminals who think they have a birthright to reconquer the American Southwest and West.
"How are you my daughter, my precious?" Fuentes said before taking her into his arms. She buried her head in his shoulder. But when her grandmother told her to give him a kiss, she turned her head shyly.
"I understand," Fuentes said. "It's been a long time."
Yep, he's a real piece of work ain't he?
Eight years in the States and all his extended family has to show for it is a washing machine, dining room table, couch and television.
$500 a month remittances must not go very far in El Salvador.
Yet they seem quite thrifty and resourceful once that money spigot turns off.
You didn't miss anything, Ronin. That bit of info hit me in the eye also.
It might be a good title for a movie: "Happy/Sad Bigamist".
The attempt to put lipstick on pig, and to turn a clear criminal act into a humanitarian crusade.
It will never work, so long as the perpetrators insist on perpetuating the concept of national sovereignty, for their own country.
No sympathy here. Zero. Zip. Nada.
We should not “assume” anything, and I made that mistake in my previous post to Ronin. Fuestes was divorced from his
Salvadoran wife. Read more on the deported Fuente here.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-deport29feb29,0,2759783.story
I don’t know about these numbers...over ten years ago the penitentiary system of Oregon State publicly said that 48% of its inmates were illegal aliens from Mexico and Guatemala. At that time Hispanics made up less than 12% of the state’s population. Now they don’t keep statistics on illegal aliens in the slammer.
It’s difficult to find out the truth.
Can we assume he did not divorvce his Salvadoran kids?
Regards
A better way to put it, I think, is to say he moved away from his children, abandoned them. That doesn't make him a bigamist and I corrected myself for saying he was.
*bump*
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