Maria and Salvador, with their 4-year-old daughter Carina, bought a house in Phoenix in August. It has a huge yard where they can spend a lot of their time. (Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times / May 19, 2010) |
Posted on 05/25/2010 12:42:18 AM PDT by thecodont
Reporting from Phoenix — The day Arizona's governor signed the strictest immigration law in the country — tasking police with checking the immigration status of those they stop and suspect to be in the country illegally — Maria thought it might be the last straw for her family.
For six years Maria, a U.S. citizen, and her husband, Salvador, who is in the country illegally, have tried to make sure he isn't caught up in a raid or sweep or traffic enforcement operation. To avoid his deportation, the couple takes precautions that, when synthesized, go something like this:
Avoid driving at night. Avoid unnecessary trips — grocery shopping once a week is best.
Stay home. Stay and care for the garden. Enjoy the blueberry bushes and the apricot trees, and mow the lawn. Keep it nice. Try to deflect, as much as possible, their 4-year-old daughter's questions about going to Disneyland.
As a citizen, Maria, 24, doesn't worry about being stopped when she's alone or with her daughter Carina. But her concern for Salvador, 29, has grown over the years, especially after Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio began using his department to enforce federal immigration laws.
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Maria and Salvador, with their 4-year-old daughter Carina, bought a house in Phoenix in August. It has a huge yard where they can spend a lot of their time. (Robert Gauthier, Los Angeles Times / May 19, 2010) |
Read the comments after the article. A sample:
“Sob stories for the illegals. Who cares what Maria thinks. We need the Arizona law on the ballot in California, wonder if it passes. The Times is so out of touch, the people want this law in California, when does the Times ever produce a story that cuts against the leftist policies that it always pushes. Any wonder your news room is getting smaller and smaller. Your paper is useful as bird cage insulation. Is your paper worth 75 cents, no.”
The poor husband. He’s doing something illegal,
and he has to worry about getting caught.
Awww :(
I know someone who doesn’t pay his taxes, and
the poor guy has to worry about getting caught.
Awwww :(
I know a woman who is selling drugs to high
school students, and she has to worry that
the police might catch her.
Awww :(
Someone I know has recently cheated on a
test at my vocational school, and now she
might get kick out of the program.
Awww :(
Maybe 15 years ago, I’d have had an ounce of sympathy. When these good folks invaded my home area en masse and turned it into a border town, neighbors from hell that have harrassed us for almost 3 years straight, and one of these fine fellows tried to murder a cop with a knife across the street from my home (for which the newspapers didn’t bother to cover), I’ve had just about enough. Deport them all, either by force, or by their own accord. What part of “illegal” is so hard to comprehend ?
I feel a Sam Kinison “YOU LIVE IN A DESERT!” moment coming on here ...
There’s some major B.S.ing going on in this article. I know that once you’re married to a U.S. Citizen, there are ways to get your status changed to legal. I have a close relative that married an illegal, and months after the marriage she had her legal status and legitimate work permits all in order.
So why hasn’t this family bothered? There are immigration lawyers all over the place that would be perfectly willing to walk them through it.
Bingo. When it’s your neighborhood that’s invaded, it becomes very clear what has to be done.
Do you have any idea how many neighborhoods we’re talking about these days? It’s massive.
I live in a crappy apartment and I’m supposed to feel sorry for an illegal alien that owns a house? I pay taxes and I’m supposed to cry over someone who doesn’t but gets benefits from the government?! WTF?! GTFOOMC!!
Illegal isn’t a race, it is a crime.
Deport him. Throw her in jail and sell the kid to Taco Bell.
Taco Bell no quierre la nina.
Just think... Sal could move two hundred miles South, and he could do whatever he wants, drive whatever he wants, and live wherever he wants.
But he prefers to give all that up to live illegally here. People make choices. Then they have to live with them.
If Maria, Sal and Carina lived in Mexico, Sal would get five years in jail for marrying a non-citizen, Maria would get two years in jail for being in the country illegally, and Carina would be tossed out on the street to fend for herself.
In Arizona, they get welfare and food stamps.
People who murder a fellow citizen must worry about driving around too - especially if cops are looking for them. Maybe the Times can do a similar sob story for the "poor killers" who fear going to the grocery story...
Are we supposed to feel sorry for those who are here illegally? I currently have a friend from France living with us who is going through the legal immigration process. I don’t feel sorry for cheaters one bit.
Apparently they are not married.
The money line.
simple solution: get citizenship
They wed that same year at a Phoenix courthouse...Soon after they were married, they met with an immigration attorney who told them Salvador would have to return to Mexico to apply for residency. If he did, the attorney said, it was possible he'd be barred from the U.S. for 10 years.They decided they couldn't risk such a separation. Two years later, Carina was born. The two of them, newborn in tow, realized Salvador's legal status was probably not going to change, and they went about putting down roots.
To which I say, "No time like the present." Start getting Sal's paperwork to legal status. In the meantime, stop whining about your condition since you've done nothing to make it right.
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