Posted on 07/07/2018 8:08:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Wow. That sucks.
Not the question.
Sorry I wasn’t clear.
Why did she have to wait til now to tell the story ?
“Her story would be better if it were comprehensible.”
Thank you! I read thru it twice and still have no idea what happened.
Way back in the day when I was taking journalism classes in college, we were always taught to ask, and answer, the basic questions: Who? What? When? Where? and How?
I miss those days!
George W. Bush only cared about his father’s Plan for North Mexico (aka USA) and that requires Spanish speaking people.
#5. I think Raiderboy is a Troll who likes to cause trouble by stirring up FR people with his deliberately antagonistic writing.
I’ve seen his stuff before and it is unworthy of the FR site.
Time for Jim to do a little sleuthing and find out who Raiderboy really is.
All this was in 2006 or thereabouts, shortly after the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) changed its name to USCIS. Only now, in 2018, has mother (me) been able to “share my story.” (There’s another vernacular tumor that should be excised by all decent editors.
Hey, thats when W was President!
She is telling her story now because it DID happen,and without the whining and wailing from the press that is going on about things like that happening at the southern border-—she is just comparing her experience.
In other words her white,South African daughter had it happen——and no one in the media gave a damn.
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Is this writer on meth?
Reporter: Miss Mercer, you just got your Green Card that allows to legally stay in the in the USA. What are going to do now?
Miss Mercer: *I'm going to Canada to study LGBTJSEZP issues.
Let her study in Canada? Whats wrong with that? <<
lol....
She posted it today, writing that the incident occurred in 2006.
or in her words.....
“...All this was in 2006 or thereabouts, shortly after the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) changed its name to USCIS. Only now, in 2018, has mother (me) been able to “share my story.” (There’s another vernacular tumor that should be excised by all decent editors.)...”
Separated from your daughter how?? Doesn't make any sense. You're both adults as far as I can tell.
And just what might the question have been to which her daughter gave the wrong answer?
Regards,
Well, he is of Liberal persuation.
> “Family values don’t stop at the Rio Grande,” roared George W. Bush, at the time.
He was talking about “Family” values, not “family values”.
World of difference. And while the latter demonstrably does stop at the Rio Grande, the former demonstrably did not.
Story doesn't pass the smell test.
Her posting was deliberately vague, trying to be emotional without giving any facts as to why the big, bad immigration agent took away her green card.
You can only be outside the US for one year on a green card, or you lose it. Her daughter was probably asked how long she had been outside the US, and truthfully answered more than one year. It wasn’t a trick question - the only trick was that her daughter didn’t know she was supposed to lie :)
There’s a form you have to fill out before you leave the US if you want to be outside the US for more than a year on a green card - her daughter probably didn’t do this.
Ilana Mercer is just trying to gin up sympathy, without posting the real facts.
A PhD candidate with a O-1 visa, which means the United States government wanted her here, was harassed into giving up her visa at a border crossing. No higher authority was involved. She was not arrested, charged, or prosecuted for any crime. In the twelve years since, this woman did not get a attorney to pursue the matter. The college that got her the O-1 visa did not raise hell over this.
This story does not add up. This would have been a case immigration advocates would have jumped on back then. Even with the War on Terror, no federal agency wanted to be seen acting like secret police toward foreigners. This was also in Washington State, which has one of he strongest ACLU chapters in the country.
There is something very wrong here, and it's not the proofreading.
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