Posted on 12/13/2013 7:42:23 AM PST by Uncle Chip
Edited on 12/13/2013 8:06:10 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
PHOENIX (AP)
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Sounds like her family covered things up pretty well. Hard to tell without more info, but she seems pretty level. Her brother is in the military and she is in law enforcement and resigned. I’d say she and her brother are prime candidates to receive quick adjudication on their citizenship.
That was kind of my take on it as well. From all appearances she is trying to do the honorable thing. A bit different from those that knowingly break the law.
I'm inclined to agree.
The is no such thing as an undocumented immigrant.
Immigrant is a legal status, you are either legal or illegal you can’t be both.
I agree that they seem like good candidates to become citizens. Locally we had a story about a new citizen in a swearing in ceremony - a Viet-Nam vet and lifetime resident of the US applied for SS benefits, and discovered he wasn’t born here.
BTW - No need to be a citizen to serve in our military.
She told us she was always under the impression through her mother that she was born in this country, and...
Well, heck, officer! How would I have known I was that drunk?
It is unfortunate but this is the kind of anecdotal story that will be used to fast track amnesty. The honest ones will provide cover and sympathy for the trash.
Birth Certificates are relatively easy to forge........Just ask Obama...................
Didn’t the Bubba hand out amnesty in the 1990s? And wasn’t it given in the 80s? Why didn’t her family come clean then? (If she was oblivious, then she was oblivious. I want to know about her parents.)
J/J asked him how he supported himself those 3 mos----he said he collected UI.
Seems for nine years the Cali Dept of Corrections colluded in a conspiracy to "lay him off" and rehire him 3 mos later.
(NOTE falsifying govt documents to get UI tax dollars is AKA government fraud and is a felony.) Now when he was "laid off" to be with his "children," he was actually traveling to be with his girlfriend---she was suing him for a $4000 loan---which was why they were in JJ's court.
JJ was incensed---is going to send videotape to Congress to show that cases like this are the reason the economy is in the ditch.
This story is presented in a positive way, however I would do a careful forensic research of documents and immediate family activities, in an attempt to be certain of her ignorance of her status.
She has served well and has led an exemplary life here. There should be exceptions made for persons like her.
“The quality of mercy is not strained.”
She should resign for being a lousy detective!
>>>Sounds like her family covered things up pretty well. Hard to tell without more info, but she seems pretty level. Her brother is in the military and she is in law enforcement and resigned. I’d say she and her brother are prime candidates to receive quick adjudication on their citizenship.<<<
Maybe, but I am not so sure. It is not like she volunteered the information, it was discovered when her brother applied for a passport. She had no choice but to resign, or she would have been fired, so we can’t really know if she would have done the honorable thing, if she had the choice.
“When Figueroa was hired to the state police force, she submitted a birth certificate from Texas and a driver’s license and high school diploma from California, Graves said.”
I think the key piece of information is the Texas birth certificate. Was it a counterfeit document? Was it “real” (actually issued by Texas) but obtained by fraud? If it was counterfeit, who created it and did she know it was counterfeit? If it was obtained by fraud, who obtained it and what did she know about it?
If she knew the birth cerficate was fraudulent, they should throw the book at her.
If it turns out her mother gave her a fraudulent birth certificate and she honestly knew nothing about it, I would be inclined towards some mercy toward her, but the mother should be prosecuted.
Exactly, my mother was given over to her aunt to raise my mom. My mother birth certificate stated that she was born in Mexico and her cousins were born here. I always believed my mother was born in Mexico until we learned she was actually born in Texas and few of her cousins were born in Mexico. They messed her papers up until she was 50 everything got fixed up. So yes it is possible for her not to have known. The family could have possible hid that fact from her.
>>>She worked for the department for ten years and just now figured this out?
She should resign for being a lousy detective!<<<
LOL! That is actually a pretty, good point. If she was truly duped by her mother, I wouldn’t mind her receiving mercy, but make not mistake, it would be MERCY. As a general rule, we cannot encourage illegal aliens to smuggle their children here by granting them residency/citizenship. They should know in advance that sneaking their children here, will likely doom them to being deported to a country they barely know, when they are 20, 30, 40, etc.
You’re right —
That’s why I asked the question
You can live all your life in California, go to school, get a drivers licens, etce without ever having to present a birth certificate, but for her law enforcement job in Arizona she needed one and came up with one.
That’s what they are investigating — forgery and fraud on her part — not her mother’s.
I totally agree. America needs people like this.
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