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 ...
Bottom line, the kids' parents were told five years ago to leave the country and they didn't. They broke the law.Here's an easy way to do it. Send him home. At the same time give him an application for a student visa to the States(or even let him apply in the states). Send him home with his parents. Let him come back and go to school on a legal student visa.
Now the media in Miami is making this sound like it is America's fault for enforcing their immigration laws.
More of the same. Do sob stories on really good illegals, who we’d like to help, the elites think then we’ll all rush to embrace amnesty.
I’d prefer to see stories on the murdering, drunken illegals being deported.
Oh wait, we can’t find any of those stories ? Doesn’t fit the liberal agenda ?
I agree with you. There are millions of illegals in our country and thousands more crossing ours borders every day. We do near to nothing to stop them from entering. We send only a minuscule number back. It seems to me that on the priority list of the ones to kick out of the country that this boy and his family would not be on the list.
That being said, if he has even a fraction of the credentials claimed in the article, there are scores of legal avenues for him to come back here.
Columbia, being a U.S. ally, should get priority over Mexico which, by any stretch of the imagination, is not.
Miami being the central trading port for South America ought to have a lot of companies willing to sponsor a bright kid like this as a legal immigrant, or perhaps someone to work their Columbian operations.
The kid has not been screwed over by his parents. He has received an excellent education, medical and social services over the past 18 or so years.
He and his parents can now go home and live in relative luxury in Colombia. It was all part of the plan, make money here and move back to the homeland and live like kings.
Unfortunately for the kid he doesn’t like that plan.
I say “Tough Noogies.” It’s time for people to start working to improve conditions in their own countries, instead of taking the easy way out.
I too am sick of the MSM illegal sob stories.
If the kid is so smart, then he should do some good back in his home, Columbia SA. It needs him more than the USA does!
It has reached a point where we will have to deport any and all illegals with no excuses allowed, this is the result of the idiot liberals and OB lobby thinking they can pick the laws to be enforced. The backlash is building daily and if we have another attack on US soil...there will be HTP!
This is just left wing newspaper propaganda.
The kids immigration lawyer is using the media as a desperation effort and two,
This is to push the Dream Act currently pending before congress. This will turn this illegal alien into an anchor baby. The REAL reason for the Dream Act is for DREAM AMNESTY. The Dream Act turns ALL children, regardless of citizenship, into anchor babies.
It is WORST THAN THAT, the fact is they could have applied for a hardship stay of deportation because they had been here for more than ten years.
This story is a fraud.
Does this newspaper allow comments or did they shut it down out of fear of truth comments.
If he’s such a good student there is absolutely no reason he shouldn’t be able to come back on an F-1 or M-1 visa.
He sounds like just the sort of talented, well-educated young man who could make a difference in Colombia. Best wishes to him in his new home.
They have a comments section and from what I read almost all along the same line as here.
Imagine how this feeds the anxiety of the rumor mill in Miami. More will leave on their own. I’ll let you know when they atart speaking English there, as I visit my daughter a few times a year.
Re your tagline - do you live in the SC lowlands ?
I have friends from Charleston who used to own Bay Point Island, and I spent a lot of time in the area. I have a particularly fond recall of lunches at the Frog Pond Cafe in Frogmore, SC. In fact, I still have a T-shirt...
How is it we can deport straight-A student illegals who master the English verbal SAT, but are somehow unable to deport MS-13 thugs or day laborers who who don’t speak a word of English?
I don’t care if the kid is a rhodes scholar he’s an illegal and should be deported.
Not really. Along with his book learning he was taught that US laws were meant for others.
Gomez can say thanks for mom and dad for this predicament.
What I think is sad is that someone with that kind of quality, the kind of immigrants (LEGAL) we want is being deported while the rapists and murders and gang members are allowed to stay and even get special visitation privileges to visit with their families before being sentenced.
However, there’s no denying that the parents knew they were wrong and were taking their chances. They have no one to blame but themselves. I wonder why they were denied legal status, though.
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