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Friends try to stop Killian grad's deportation
Miami Herald/Bird cage Liner ^ | 07/26/07 | KATHLEEN McGRORY

Posted on 07/30/2007 6:39:38 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

Juan Gomez was poised for greatness.

At Miami Killian High, he aced 15 Advanced Placement classes and earned a near-perfect score on his SATs. He exceled in football and was popular with classmates. He had plans to attend Miami Dade College's Honors College.

But on Thursday, Gomez, 18, sat in an immigrant detention facility in Broward County, periodically placing desperate calls to friends. He's being deported to Colombia, the country where he was born, but a place he has never known.

(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: alien; aliens; browardcounty; deportation; illegal; immigrantlist; immigration
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Bottom line, the kids' parents were told five years ago to leave the country and they didn't. They broke the law.

Now the media in Miami is making this sound like it is America's fault for enforcing their immigration laws.

1 posted on 07/30/2007 6:39:44 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper; Joe Brower
In May, Gomez graduated in the top 20 of his 780-member class, friends said. He had hoped to go to Harvard or the University of Pennsylvania but had trouble applying because of his illegal status...

The family had gone to immigration court to seek legal status, and a judge turned them down. Five years ago, the Board of Immigration Appeals agreed with the ruling.

''They had five years to make arrangements to return to their home country,'' said Barbara Gonzalez, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman in Miami. ``Instead of complying with the law, they ignored it and remained in the country.''

Florida ping; FIVE YEARS to get their affairs in order...but they ignored the law.

2 posted on 07/30/2007 6:41:50 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.


3 posted on 07/30/2007 6:42:20 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: SoFloFreeper

Julio Boo Hoo alert!!!!


4 posted on 07/30/2007 6:43:14 AM PDT by 9422WMR ("This will make parents, students, faculty and visitors FEEL SAFE on our campus")
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To: SoFloFreeper

Put him on the next plane out.


5 posted on 07/30/2007 6:44:28 AM PDT by Hydroshock (Duncan Hunter For President, checkout gohunter08.com.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

While I am not unsympathetic to this kid’s plight, stories like these help give other potential illegals a reason NOT to come here.

I really am sorry for this kid. Perhaps back in Columbia he can serve as an object lesson to his friends and neighbors about why it is not a good idea to sneak into our country.


6 posted on 07/30/2007 6:46:05 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: SoFloFreeper

Sad, in a way. This kind of quality is what I’d like to see in immigrants.

I wish they’d start with the peeing in public, loitering, raping street thugs.

The parents were wrong, though.


7 posted on 07/30/2007 6:47:04 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The only thing sad about this story is that it is probably going to be difficult for them to sell their house now. But I’m sure ICE will let them take all their liquid assets and move back to Colombia. Of course, the plane ride will be free (i.e., billed to us). With all the investments the US public school system has made in these boys, they should be able to go to college, graduate at the top of their college classes, apply for student visas and come here as graduate students whose student visas then get converted, by US employers, to work visas. I don’t know why they’re so unhappy. Going to college overseas? What an adventure! For the parents, returning to their home country with a lot of money? Hey, how wonderful! Where’s the sad part?


8 posted on 07/30/2007 6:48:01 AM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
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To: Hydroshock

Here’s one downside to this issue. We have a talented kid who winds up being screwed over by his parents. We kick him out but lesser folks get to stay. I say we keep him and send a few people doing time in our prisons home. He will at least contribute some tax revenue to society and we can lower our incarceration bill.


9 posted on 07/30/2007 6:48:48 AM PDT by misterrob (There's no difference between a knee jerk liberal and a knee jerk conservative.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

“The family started a small catering company and enrolled their children in public schools, friends said. It’s unclear why they chose to stay.”

On a six month visitors visa? They knew full well they were here to stay and break the law. If the kid is as smart as advertised, he will do well in Columbia.

Do all Florida colleges admit illegals?


10 posted on 07/30/2007 6:49:36 AM PDT by Bulldawg Fan (Rest of the Story, My bad that this didnt print with the first part.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I used to teach in a MA school with a huge illegal population. A lot of them were decent and hard working kids. This led to a very EMOTIONAL movement to allow them to go to state colleges at in-state rates.

Every time I hear folks say that we need to dry up the jobs, I respond that we need to dry up the SERVICES - school, medical, etc. Don’t allow these without proof of citizenship and watch them leave in droves!


11 posted on 07/30/2007 6:50:03 AM PDT by Scarchin (+)
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To: Maceman
While I am not unsympathetic to this kid’s plight, stories like these help give other potential illegals a reason NOT to come here.

Excellent point. And the fact is, we don't have to deal with deport every single illegal immigrant. What you do is set up an environment that makes them want to self-deport, by not making it worthwhile for them to stay in this country illegally.

12 posted on 07/30/2007 6:50:04 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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To: SoFloFreeper

He is such a wunderkind that UK and Canadian universities are salivating over the prospect of giving him a scholarship, right? Right?


13 posted on 07/30/2007 6:50:32 AM PDT by ikka
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To: definitelynotaliberal
Going to college overseas? What an adventure! For the parents, returning to their home country with a lot of money? Hey, how wonderful! Where’s the sad part?

Agreed.

14 posted on 07/30/2007 6:53:31 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The story should really be about how the parents broke our country’s laws, and the way their indifference has affected the life of their son.


15 posted on 07/30/2007 6:54:45 AM PDT by Joann37
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To: metmom
I wish they’d start with the peeing in public, loitering, raping street thugs. The parents were wrong, though.

Yep, but I wouldn't mind if this guy comes back legally some day.

16 posted on 07/30/2007 6:56:25 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: misterrob
"We have a talented kid who winds up being screwed over by his parents"

These are the type of folk our country need. I agree with Misterrob, keep the kid, do the process that needs to be done and send his folks back and let them apply accordingly! After this story, I'm sure there will be a family who is willing to foster the kid! He can be a tremendous asset to our community and country!

17 posted on 07/30/2007 6:57:08 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: SoFloFreeper
Columbia (not the District of) should roll out the red carpet for this young man and provide him a full scholarship at their finest university.
18 posted on 07/30/2007 6:57:56 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Make him pay back those who paid for his education, THEN kick his butt out!


19 posted on 07/30/2007 6:58:38 AM PDT by Clam Digger
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To: Bulldawg Fan
Do all Florida colleges admit illegals?

I'm sure FIU does.

20 posted on 07/30/2007 6:59:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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