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
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Meanwhile, 15,000 illegal ‘yoots under 25 fill California’s prison system.
Where is that story, LA Times?
Agreed, but why does the hell does it take 20 years for an immigration asylum case to be adjudicated?
ZOT
If Farrales can get the Philippine govt to vouch that his father was politically prosecuted, then his father’s claim (and that for his children) for political asylum could be granted retroactively.
It might not solve the citizenship issue immediately, but it would give him a chance, with his new lawyer, to see what could be done to help him stay here. The defense of “Incompetent legal advise” is acceptable in courts.
Sounds like a nice guy and a productive one. He is the kind of immigrant we need to help build up America.
His case should be given a second, comprehensive review.
And I’m no bleeding heart. Illegals have wrecked my county, neighborhood and cars. We helped put some of the drug-dealers and drunks in jail and hopefully on the road back home.
Even the older legal immigrant-to-citizenship Hispanics don’t like the illegals so we’re not against enforcing the law, but there are a lot of people here who were not responsible for it. We should show them some compassion. We need a new classification of “resident alien” based on a no-choice immigration status due to the actions of their parents.
They only go after OTMs.
Sniff...
Make a argument to what I said. I’m not saying I want them here, I don’t. I’m just thinking what leaders think. Every action has consequences. I’m sick of seeing every construction site, fast food place peopled by hispanics. Repatriating them to where they are happy may be impossible. In fact I’m sure it will be. Thinking it won’t have repurcussions is folly. I’m not into folly.
TwoSwords and Moonshinner_09’s sign up dates are suspicious.
My brother is married to a Filipina. It’s the most corrupt country in SE Asia (my new relatives there got me a legit driver’s license..I’m serious), including the dirtiest yet the most tech-savvy cities I’ve been around. As long as you have money, sky’s the limit. Those new relatives of mine had as much guns as any Freeper so I knew I was safe when they showed me around Manila LOL.
I’m a Californian, which used to be an American state.
Sounds like by “show compassion,” you mean let him REAP ALL THE BENEFITS of his parents’ illegal actions. We don’t punish the children of thieves for what their fathers do, but we also don’t let them keep the loot thirty years later.
There are plenty of Americans who want to go to the University of California — and a lot of them get aced out by sob story illegals like this guy.
With two weeks of response history, and the tone of these recent posts, you are on thin ice.
Agreed.
Gee, after breaking the Law for years, you have to go back to your home Country, big whoop.
Go to the Middle East; they love immigrants.
My favorite subject is military history. My entire post was in that thought. I want illegals gone, forthwith, if not sooner. I was just trying to think long-term about the results. I’m stunned my original post was so miscontrued.
Dingy Harry, is that you?
IBTZ
They only go after OTMs.
When a noob posts crap like this, they're looking for trouble.
Boy, you guys really eat your own don’t you. I want illegals gone more than you. I was trying to make a argument that we have to prepare for repurcussions when we throw them out.
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