Deported Immigrants Struggle To Re-Enter U.S.[Illegal Aliens]

NPR ^ | 02 Dec 2008 | Jason Beaubien

[BGHater]

[Puppage]

In the past, many of these migrants would immediately try to cross back into U.S. But now, with the economic downturn and beefed-up security measures along the border, an increasing number are saying it's not worth the trouble.

Good. Tell the rest of your criminal family members.

[Unassuaged]

“They took me when I was 5 years old to California. I’m 45 years old and I just got deported.

Where was he in 1986 ?!?!

[gubamyster]

ping

[JimRed]

I have five children — I have two in Iraq right now, fighting for their country. Which I believe is my country too, because I was raised up there."

If true, his story should get him amnesty. He obviously raised at least two of his kids right, and had no control over where he was taken at five years of age.

I do not believe in a blanket amnesty, but cases like his deserve consideration.

[caseinpoint]

“I was raised in the United States,” says one man, who sits about 20 yards from the rusty metal fence that’s keeping him out of Arizona. He doesn’t want to be identified because he is waiting for an opportunity to break the law and jump the wall. “They took me when I was 5 years old to California. I’m 45 years old and I just got deported. I have to go back with my family. I don’t have nothing here in Mexico. All my family is in California. I have five children — I have two in Iraq right now, fighting for their country. Which I believe is my country too, because I was raised up there.”

This is a sad situation but, what is it the scripture said somewhere, that the sins of the fathers would be visited on the heads of their children to the fourth generation? We have ceased as a culture to think long-term anymore. We don’t stop to consider how our actions today will affect the coming generations so we focus on abortion rights, and failure to enforce immigration laws, and gun limitations, all to curb what we see as today’s problems, forgetting that they create new problems down the road.

[AuntB]

“Reyes has two young daughters and a wife in Miami, “

All this, for everyone concerned, could have been so easily prevented by just enforcing the law in the first place!

[TaraP]

This is very sad...But we have illegal immigrants that are in this country commiting crimes, bankrupting many communities..Still people that have been working staying out of trouble are seperated from families is very sad.

A no win situation for illegal immigrants who are now being deported....

[relictele]

"There are a lot more border guards, and it costs a lot more to cross than in the past," Reyes says. "And the risk is that you could die in the desert."

UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT

[Liz]

"There are a lot more border guards, and it costs a lot more to cross than in the past," Reyes says. "And the risk is that you could die in the desert."......... UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT...

Let me help you with that-------for Americans being gouged with the bills for illegals, it means there is no downside.

[TADSLOS]

LOL!

[17th Miss Regt]

They need to take up arms against their corrupt national government and overthrow it.

[relictele]

I was referring to the issuer of the quotation.

[Oatka]

When he was caught, he had been packing chickens for three years in a job that paid $6.75 per hour.
"The Americans don't like to work in a job that we would do," Garcia says.

No, American employers don't want to pay more than $6.75 per hour. The American workers don't like work that pay wages below subsistence level.

[Sybeck1]

Sounds like they need to vote for some “change” in their own hellhole country and leave ours alone. Of course, John McCain and Fred Barnes can't live without a bargain basement pool boy!!

[Sybeck1]

Chicken plants should move to Mexico. Problem solved....

[Liz]

Too bad——your “UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT” post was absolutely brilliant-—best post of the day.

[nufsed]

Mr. Garcia: Your kids are not without parents. You are their father. Merely send for them to join you. Problem solved.

[MovementConservative]

That border fence in Nogales can’t be the new one the feds have been building. It doesn’t look very daunting.