Posted on 12/18/2010 8:57:47 PM PST by moonshinner_09
Mark Farrales, whose family sought political asylum when he was 10, is to be sent back to the Philippines. The Harvard alumnus hopes Congress will consider a private immigration bill. Mark Farrales figured his time in America could be up when he answered the door at his Reseda home to find two men standing there in black bulletproof vests emblazoned with three large white letters.
"It read ICE," he said. "My heart just sank."
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were there to arrest him for being in the country illegally.
Brought here by his parents as a child, the now-31-year-old Farrales faces imminent deportation back to the Philippines. His only hope appears to be for Congress to pass a private immigration bill that could grant him citizenship, a legal maneuver that is rarely successful.
Farrales arrived abruptly in the United States as a 10-year-old in 1990, just days after two alleged hit men shot his father twice in the head outside their home in Quezon City in the Philippines, he said in a telephone interview from the Mira Loma Detention Center in Lancaster.
His father, Jaime, who survived the attack, was a prominent lawyer who often spoke out against government corruption and had just announced a bid for congress.
Fearing for their lives, the family escaped to Los Angeles using visitor visas and sought political asylum. Jaime Farrales argued that the politicians he'd rallied against had tried to have him killed. "I never got to see my house again after that night," Mark Farrales said. "I was completely uprooted from my life there."
The agency contends that immigration courts have "consistently held that Mr. Farrales does not have legal basis to remain in the United States. He remains in ICE custody
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Oh look.
A “DREAM” act propaganda story.
Like clockwork.
Why do WE always have to take care of every person with a sad story?
(rhetorical)
The state run commie lib "media" appears to be trying to cover all of them.
Don't we have some Expatriate FReepers living there? How are they allowed to use the Internet in a prison camp?
After 21 years those people have moved on and do not find this guy to be that important.
I’m totally against illegal immigration. And what I’m going to say sounds pussyish. I’m looking at this in a military way. If we were able to send every illegal immigrant back to their place of origin we’ve made a whole lot of enemies on top of the ones that were already there. Our military isn’t invicible and if every country coordinated we wouldn’t have a chance. I think this is our future. We defend our country and still lose.
This guy is busted by ICE-an educated man from an educated family, but they can't even arrest and keep illiterate, no-English speaking, law breaking illegals who have committed a crime for the most part.
The Phillipino people we have known are some of the hardest working we have ever seen and are very family oriented and education and work oriented. Of course they were mostly military and probably quota immigrants.
Not saying he should get special privilege, but he is not a Dream Act candidate--those are Harry's cross the border pals who voted for him so they can get education(without learning English), health coverage, food stamps,subsidized rent, Social Security, help with utilities, free lawyers with an interpreter thrown in, and bring over 30 more relatives who are equally needy and who also need an interpreter--for 30 years, or life, and expect one to be furnished gratis.
vaudine
Not if we can stop the Senate from ratifying Barry’s “START treaty”. Nukes tend to cause your enemies to lighten up a lot and take a time out to think about their stupidity.
You’re right, it does sound pussyish
The Tacoma Washington paper has been running a similar story. Time for the Ministry of Propaganda to put out a less obvious storyline.
If we could somehow convince the water carriers in the MSM to actually carry water uphill we could generate enough hydroelectric power to power several medium size cities.
IBTZ!
From what I understand it has been stopped. But it’s clear that’s what our American Communists are interested in.
“It read ICE,” he said. “My heart just sank.”
In other words, Farrales knew he was guilty of breaking our immigration laws.
There have been many in this country who have become citizens legally. Do the same, Farrales.
A Harvard degreed person might be pretty valuable in his homeland.
Bye bye!
Meet Jason.
Jason is white, middle class from the midwest. He desperately wants to go to Harvard, but hasn’t accepted the wisdom of Global Warming. Nor has Jason accepted that he’s had an easy life just because he’s white. So he has the gall to become resentful when he’s rejected.
So Jason can get a wage slave job while we liberal politicians raise his taxes to pay for minority people living in our country illegally can go to the school that rejected him.
And now Jason is bitter.
As you can tell, Jason is a racist jerk who just doesn’t like others.
Jason doesn’t fit the desired profile needed in a diverse society. He sounds like he could use some sensitivity training, too. /s
Conservatives are just so hateful.
8^D
He doesn’t want to live in his homeland regardless of his Harvard degree. The Philippines is NOT America. I have a number of relatives who have migrated from the Philippines. They’ve become successful business owners and white collar professionals thanks to the opportunities America provided (and their homeland did not).
The quality of life and opportunity here far outweighs the possibilities for him back home.
There is a reason why my relatives never moved back to the Philippines. These reason are what concerns Farrales.
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