Posted on 02/25/2009 7:23:19 PM PST by Dubya
Her husband, José Alfredo Garcia, was arrested by Mineral Wells police, and his status as an illegal immigrant quickly got him a one-way ticket to Mexico. He was turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and deported the next day.
It didn’t matter that he had been paying taxes, buying a house or taking care of his daughters, who are American citizens because they were born in the U.S.
"The little ones don’t understand, and they don’t know what happened. They don’t know why their dad has to be in Mexico," Gonzalez-Garcia said at her Fort Worth home.
Garcia’s abrupt deportation is an example of how tens of thousands of parents are separated from their children when immigration law catches up with them.
A report released this month by the Homeland Security Department’s Office of Inspector General found that more than 108,000 parents of U.S.-born children were deported between 1998 and 2007.
U.S. Rep. José Serrano, D-N.Y., asked for the study and is using its findings to push his bill, the Child Citizen Protection Act, which would allow immigration judges to use discretion and halt the deportation of a parent of a child who is a U.S. citizen.
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The 96 bill did not abolish anchor babies. A child born on U.S. soil, regardless of the status of his parents, is a U.S. citizen. This is why hospitals in California and elsewhere are closing. All that said, the parents can be deported and they can chose to take their anchor babies with them back to their home countries. Under the 96 bill, they can no longer claim a right to stay in the U.S. one the sole basis of the citizenship of their children.
If it weren’t for that stupid law on the books that forbade him from taking his “American” children with him, they wouldn’t be seperated.
What? You say there is no such law? Where’s the problem then?
I was being sarcastic.
Ms. Gonzalez-Garcia try to imagine how little I care. Why should I care, when you did not care enough to make better decisions. Instead, I have sympathy for the American workers your husband displaced.
Rep.Serrano, you cannot believe the wrath which I will have if this legislation passes.
We need to change the law so that any foreign national, here illegaly, passes their nationality on to their child - no matter the mother’s nationality. That kid should not be a citizen because he/she is concieved and born here due to the commission of a felony; one parent being an illegal alien.
Why isn’t the mother deported also? Then, the children can be with them both, at home, in Mexico.
Deport the children too. Why allow a criminal to profit from his wanton behavior?
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