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Irving woman appeals to Washington to avert deportation
MyFox DFW ^ | March 16, 2011 | Emily Lopez

Posted on 03/18/2011 2:12:08 PM PDT by moonshinner_09

IRVING, Texas - A young woman raised in North Texas now faces deportation to Mexico, to the same city where an American immigration agent was murdered.

Twenty-year-old Olga Zanella was brought to the country illegally by her parents when she was a young child.

“I was a baby when I came over here. I was 6 years old,” she said.

She graduated from an Irving high school and has been taking classes to become a dental hygienist.

She does not have a criminal record, but started having trouble with the Department of Homeland Security in February 2009 after being pulled over for a traffic violation.

“That’s when they asked me to get off and that’s when they handcuffed me,” Zanella said.

She was arrested for driving without a license. She admits she never tried to get a Texas driver’s license because of her illegal entry into the county.

Zanella spent three days in an Irving jail cell before police turned her over to immigration authorities. They released her on bond and she went back home.

“That was the first time I saw my dad cry,” she said.

Zanella admits that before her arrest neither she nor her parents tried to become legal residents of the United States. But for the past two years she’s been trying to do what is needed to remain in the country.

She’s gone through a series of court hearings and legal complications. She has exhausted her case appeals and now she faces a very uncertain future.

She faces deportation to San Luis Potosi, a Mexican city with a violent reputation following the death of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata at the hands of drug cartel gang members. She will live with distant relatives that she’s never met.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; immigration; tx
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To: liberalh8ter
You can bet Mamsita is on the US gravy train sucking up our tax dollars using several identities.

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ILLEGALS RIDE THE US GRAVY TRAIN An illegal alien w/ wife and five children violates our borders. He gets a job mowing lawns for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that low wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, so each year, he files an Income Tax Return to get "EITC---earned income credit" of up to $3,200 scot-free.

He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent. He qualifies for food stamps and no deductible, no co-pay free health care. His children get free school breakfasts and lunches.

The kids qualify for monthly SSI checks, faking ADD; the illegal and his wife get SSI if they fake being aged, blind or disabled; SSI qualifies them for Medicare.

Plus illegals don't worry about pricey items like car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance, and qualifies for relief from high energy bills.

ALL OF THAT IS COLLECTED WITH JUST ONE IDENTITY Evidence shows illegals establish several identities with phony SS nos and fake documents (which these "poor immigrants" buy from document brokers for several thousand dollars).

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Earned Income Tax Credit is available only to immigrant workers who obtain legal work status. But the law allows immigrants to claim EITC for up to three years prior to obtaining that status. Workers simply file a tax return for the years in which they were not legally eligible to work in the US.

The most widespread abuse stems from the requirement that children live with the worker for more than six months of the year. IRS does little to verify the claim.

Many immigrants claim non-existent children, or claim children who they’ve left behind with relatives. Those with two or more children and income below $32,121 could get as much as $4,008. It is estimated that illegals got $22 billion EITC last year alone.

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The Mexican govt's thieving ways----to drain the US Treasury into the pockets of federales in their hellhole of a country----continues apace. The govt cues in invaders on how to get free rent, food, health care, ob care for their Anchor Babies, mothers, fathers, extended families, etc etc etc........

21 posted on 03/18/2011 5:40:42 PM PDT by Liz (A taxpayer voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Col Sanders.)
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To: proudusvet
I'm not sure I would have kept my cool after seeing that! What kills me is that $800 x millions of illegals and worthless POS’s are what have helped our deficit become the behemoth that it is.
22 posted on 03/18/2011 5:42:41 PM PDT by liberalh8ter
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To: All

Illegal Jose Madrigal, the Washington state rapist, had some 30 identities.

EACH FAKE IDENTITY COLLECTS US GOVT FREEEBIES,
--- AND AS EVERY DESPERATE DEMOCRAT KNOWS ---
EACH ILLEGAL IDENTITY VOTES AND VOTES AND VOTES

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So How does an impoverished Mexican illegal in the US for a "better" life get a driver's license, passport, birth certificate and SS number?

NORTH BERGEN, NJ -- July 21, 2006 -- Pelcastre brothers, Angel and Jorge, Dallas, Texas, were a walking threat to US national security, expert document forgers who, for a few thousand dollars, could give anyone a new identity, authorities said.

The Texas brothers turned a NJ hotel room into a business office and were readying a massive cache of fake Social Security cards for delivery to a local NJ identity broker.

The Texas brothers were a "one-stop shop" for a myriad of fake US documents, including birth certificates, Social Security cards, driver's licenses for any state in the US, passports and resident alien cards, said state police. Officers happened upon two cars bearing Texas plates in a NJ hotel parking lot. Authorities wouldn't identify the NJ hotel by name for fear it would spark retribution. The Drug Interdiction Task Force, regularly runs checks.

The Texas brothers were followed to a NJ office supply store nearby where they purchased computer supplies. Officers then followed the Texans to a NJ storage facility in Secaucus, NJ, where the Texans loaded several boxes into a car. One of them stood lookout. Authorities approached the Texas brothers when they returned to the NJ hotel and questioned them separately. The Texas brothers consented to a search.

Police recovered laminating sheets with built-in security features, pages of blank documents waiting for fake names and information, finished documents, computers and software to create the fake IDs.

All told, the haul was worth about $500,000 on the street. Police also recovered $6,000 in cash, which was the first payment from a NJ fake document broker for a shipment of 500 Social Security cards.

23 posted on 03/18/2011 5:48:36 PM PDT by Liz (A taxpayer voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Col Sanders.)
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To: Liz
The Texas brothers were a "one-stop shop" for a myriad of fake US documents, including birth certificates, Social Security cards, driver's licenses for any state in the US, passports and resident alien cards, said state police.

Sounds like they need to go to work for the "resident" of 1600 Penn. Ave.

24 posted on 03/18/2011 6:28:20 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: drbuzzard

In Texas auto insurance is mandatory. none of this pull over and call a friend while we all sit around and wait.


25 posted on 03/18/2011 7:28:56 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
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To: RowdyFFC
. When she got back, 3 months later, she came back with all of her papers that I was able to verify and I gave her her job back,

3 months ???

26 posted on 03/18/2011 7:56:20 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: rolling_stone

She had a verifiable social security number, she had a verifiable Texas ID card, she had her birth records, she had her daughter’s birth records, and she had her marriage license. She only needed to show me her SS# and Texas ID, but she brought her other records so that I could verify that the ID’s matched the other records she presented. She was expedited because she had a husband and child here who were both citizens.


27 posted on 03/19/2011 6:25:51 AM PDT by RowdyFFC (.)
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To: Irish Eyes

Yes, she was expedited because she had a child and husband here who were both citizens.


28 posted on 03/19/2011 6:27:12 AM PDT by RowdyFFC (.)
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To: Irish Eyes

3 months ? I have been trying to get my family members here for over 5 years on a visitors visa and they were denied.
How come just because those people are close to the border they get a free ride when you come over illegally?

They should go through the process like everyone else and wait to come to this country.


29 posted on 03/19/2011 8:08:51 AM PDT by G-Man980
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To: RowdyFFC

Nice, those documents do establish identity. She was extremely lucky to get the required document in her home country, get them translated, notarized etc and have her visa application processed in such a short time. If she was not the Immediate Relative/spouse of a USC It would take considerably longer. Other classes of immigrant visas can take 10 years to obtain.

FYI:

http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/types/types_1315.html
http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/types/types_2993.html
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=254a3e4d77d73210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=254a3e4d77d73210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD


30 posted on 03/19/2011 8:16:36 AM PDT by rolling_stone ( *this makes Watergate look like a kiddie pool*)
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