[moonshinner_09]

Advocates hope Ayala is a good candidate to have his case suspended. He traveled back and forth to El Salvador for 15 years on tourist visas and said he decided to stay here after his most recent visa expired because his life was threatened back home-- I believe that threat is no longer a valid reason, to be excused from complying with the laws.

[Mike Darancette]

See, it works.

[Still Thinking]

Julio Cesar Ayala knew he was taking a risk when he decided to overstay his tourist visa four years ago, but he never expected to be threatened with deportation for climbing behind the wheel of the family's silver minivan.

Nice try at obfuscating the issue (not really, pretty inept actually).

He knowingly broke the rules, but if he gets tossed, the problem isn't that but driving his minivan??? Even deportation isn't "punishment" per se. It's just forced completion of that which he already agreed to do when he got the visa.

[thecodont]

Julio Cesar Ayala knew he was taking a risk breaking United States law when he decided to overstay his tourist visa four years ago, but he never expected to be threatened with deportation for climbing behind the wheel of the family's silver minivan.

Fixed it.

[moonshinner_09]

In another related story, Family fears future, separation
Immigration laws designed to protect can also hurt by splitting parents, children
Cuellar-Hernandez will soon be deported back to Mexico. Cuellar-Hernandez is in the country illegally. He was the sole breadwinner for his wife and three U.S.-born children. He has been convicted of using someone else’s Social Security number.. In order
to view full story or view our Registration Guide,they want you to sign up.. I can see where this is going.Illegals just seem amazed that laws do apply to them.
http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2012/02/26/family-fears-future-separation-214072.php

[Cicero]

Four years of criminal behavior as an illegal alien. And apparently 15 years of semi-criminal behavior before that, since a “tourist visa” is not meant to cover a 15 year stay in this country.

[Gaffer]

If he is guilty of even ONE overstay of his VISA (let alone a potential multiple of 15 occurrences), he should be imprisoned until his sorry ass can be deported back to where he came from.

We do not need these people, we do not need their skills, we do not need their diversity, we do not need their crime, we do not need their diseases, and we do not need the load they place on the support system we have here for Americans that can’t or won’t work.

We DO NOT NEED THEM!

[jmacusa]

These are not ‘’immigrants’’. They’re criminals, they broke the law.

[bgill]

grandfather to eight children born in the United States

Criminal with eight anchors.

[upchuck]

"I feel trapped."

You should, you bastard. What part of "you are here illegally" don't you understand?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Now he knows what it’s like to sneak into the Super Bowl without buying a ticket and getting caught.

[Feckless]

when he decided to overstay his tourist visa
When he decided to break the law.

He spent nearly two weeks in jail for a traffic violation.
No, he spent two weeks in jail for being an illegal alien.

"I've never had any problems before," said Ayala, a Cockeysville resident and grandfather to eight children born in the United States. "I feel trapped."

Cry me a river then swim back across it.

[student_mom]

I am continuously ashamed of immigrants making unethical and illegal decisions and then playing it as a moral dilemna for the American public..If he felt he had valid reason for refugee status he should have applied for it, not taken the law into his own hands. Shame on him, he broke the laws of our country and then wants us to feel sorry for him and take mercy. Let him take his deportation like a man or criminal and stop crying about getting caught.

[Moonman62]

Many immigrants — documented and not — say they will be less likely to approach police to report a crime, even if they are victims, because they have heard stories like Ayala's.

Having real numbers and percentages would be helpful rather than a vague term like "many."

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Why didn’t he apply for asylum, if his life was in danger?

Maryland “Freak State” PING!