Posted on 05/13/2008 6:00:32 AM PDT by redstates4ever
"Francelia Menchaca drove with her family from Phoenix to the Tijuana border to see her mother at the fence on Saturday.
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You can walk to the U.S. border, Francelia Menchaca's immigration lawyer advised her, but don't put your fingers through its fence. It may hinder her immigration paperwork, the lawyer said.
But when, after a year apart, Menchaca's mother arrived in her flowered straw hat to the border in Tijuana on Saturday and put her small, wrinkled hands up to the cast-iron gate, Menchaca reached out and touched them.
"Were you anxious to touch my hand?" Menchaca asked in Spanish. Tears stood on her lashes.
"Yes," said her mother, Francisca Rodriguez, a resident of Tijuana, as her three grandchildren, including a 10-month-old girl she had never seen, strained to be near her.
Unlike East Berlin, there's nothing stopping any of the people in this article from crossing the border legally to be with one another.
I begets the question, How did this woman enter the USA in the first place?
I’m betting that it was illegally. And yet we are going to reward her with citizenship, and allow other members of her family entry and citizenship.
Hence my argument that she should be looking out of a prison fence.
Depending on how she’s trying to become legal, she may *not* be able to cross back into Mexico even for a visit. My wife used to work as a secretary for an immigration lawyer processing L-1 and similar types of visas, and permanent residency. There were situations during the paperwork processing where the visaholders were not allowed to leave the country, period, or their applications would get shot down. Why, I don’t know, but those were the rules.
Our immigration laws in this country are totally wrecked. It’s sheer hell for a motivated person who wants to become an American to gain a visa, residency, or citizenship, but we welcome illegal invaders across the border by the millions. It’s Bizarro World.
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What a ridiculous story. From it I gathered.....
Francelia Menchaca is illegal and has filed for citizenship
Francelia Menchaca has a couple of anchor babies
The mother could have just walked across the border with a tourist visa so....
The point of the story must be.....poor illegal alien.
"I am so sorry, Mami, but we're not going to get the southwestern U.S. back for Mexico..."
Caption:'Mom, I got you an ABSENTEE BALLOT so you can vote for BARAK OBAMA. Don't Worry, BobBarr will help Barak get Elected.'
This is completely contrived.
True. Still doesn't justify the 'electrified fence' comment.
The daughter and her family are free to join her mother in mexico.
Oh, wait....that's my stomach.
Another reason for an ELECTRIC fence.
“Francelia Menchaca’s immigration lawyer advised her, *but don’t put your fingers through its fence*.”
See photo, hand through fence caressing poor, gray-haired mother, pobrecita.
Good luck with that, comrade.
"Franchela, why didn't we meet at the hotel over a nice glass of wine instead of looking at each other through a rusty fence?" "Oh momma don't be so silly. The AP is paying me mucho dinero for this photograph!"
I can dream.
The mother took off her flowered straw hat.. I wonder where that big gap in the fence is? Border patrol should be alerted... I have seen holes smaller than that under the fence the illegals can get thru
Photoshop!!!
John McCain said such a thing is impossible :)
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