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I definitely know where you're coming from. Before I joined the Border Patrol I would have agreed that this individual should have been allowed legal status. However, you see one individual which reasonably wouldn't concern anybody. I don't see it that way. I see thousands of illegal aliens and they all have compelling stories. If every illegal alien was coming here to defend America I doubt the issue would be such a controversy. The fact that Escalante is an exception to the rule doesn't absolve him of his crime of violating our immigration laws and committing fraud. The government's willful disreguard for our laws in Escalante's encourages more illegal immigration.