Posted on 06/20/2025 7:18:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
It’s true she should have followed correct procedure on time.. When she finally got around to it, she got caught up in her relative’s deportation and would up in trouble herself.
Yrs, she was wrong. The criminals and those living on the taxpayer dime are way, way, way more wrong, in my book.
We may simply have to politely agree to disagree on this.
“When she finally got around to it,”
LOL! She was an illegal hiding for years.
Regardless, you were still wrong for saying ICE targeted her.
If I was wrong, I’m either gonna blame either (A) my faulty memory or (B) that I followed true FR tradition and didn’t read the article carefully enough. Or — ooh ooh! — there’s a third choice! (C) sloppy writer on the part of incompetent journos.
I guess I’ll have to go with A, but it might be B. Either way, in the immortal words of Jimmy Buffet, “but I know,(strum strum), it’s my own darn* fault.”
*We can’t say Jimmy’s badword on FR.
Tell me where I am wrong, Old Fart CONservative.
“there’s a third choice! (C) sloppy writer on the part of incompetent journos.”
These article are written with a slant. The headline calls him a Marine.
What is the rest of the story? When did he find out sheer was an illegal?
If he knew from the beginning, he should have never married an illegal and was complicit in the cover up.
Since leaving the Marines he has cooked pizzas at Sbarro, worked as a stock boy/janitor at Jake’s Liquor and now is a door-to-door salesman.
He claims he is an Intelligence Analyst. Something doesn’t give.
Why would he leave the Marines for an entry level job at a pizza place?
The only thing I see that could be considered “retarded” are your inane, leftist posts polluting so many threads.
“”Texas has 1.7 million””
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HAHAHAHAHA!
DFW has at least 1.7 million and probably San Antonio / Houston about the same.
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Even though I first moved to Florida 10 years after Disney World (I know that because I attended their "Ten Centennial" event when I first moved down), I can only image how wonderful it must have been with the endless orange and blueberry orchards and the unique-to-Florida attractions (many of which have only in recent years faded into the history books).
I wish I had discovered the "Red Rose Inn" sooner than I did - that was a truly classey joint, and they sure knew how to make a steak!
I confess I found the article confusing and hard to follow. All articles seem to be written with a slant, which one can take into account and often manage to make sense of — but this one was a a jumble of contradictory anecdotes all out of order and, as you pointed out, missing important information.
Here’s the story according to the lefty NOLA dot com:
Aha. It looks like Paola’s mother entered illegally, then filed for asylum, and missed her hearing.
Another aha: they only got married last year.
Something I had wondered about: she has been (allegedly) estranged from her mother.
Going by this article, it looks like Adrian tried to do the right thing and had her file for adjustment of status based on her marriage to him, they kept appointments, etc., but it was all doomed by the (allegedly unknown) removal order.
My opinion, given this is the perfect sob story for the media:
She was a minor when she entered and when her mother missed the hearing, she married a US Marine, she has two young children including a nursing baby, she was trying to go by the rules and filed for adjustment of status based on her marriage (normal procedure), and was arrested while trying to go by established rules, but tripped over an order issued while she was still a minor and allegedly unbeknownst to her.
Maybe technically she could be arrested, but marriage licenses are legally issued to illegal immigrants by US authorities and there is a standard legal procedure for adjustment of status based on the marriage.
It’s just golden as a sob story. My opinion is ICE agents should be told not to immediately arrest someone who would make a perfect sob story for the media if the person in question is going through the legal process, showing up to appointments, and not a flight risk.
Move on to the next one, give Mrs. Perfect Sob Story a grace period to get paperwork straightened out. It’s not worth the bad PR and outrage it causes. Even the dumbest ICE agent ought to be able to see Paola is a Perfect Storm of a Sob Story.
Also: If we don’t want illegal immigrants to be able to marry American citizens and thereby be given a legal path to citizenship, then change the law to prohibit it. Only allow marriages to other citizens or those in the country legally. Require proof of legal residency or appropriate visa be presented to obtain a marriage license. Or take away that avenue for attaining legal status.
Currently, marriage licenses are issued so long as the bride or groom has a valid passport from his/her home country and it’s perfectly legal for an illegal immigrant to marry an Armed can citizen here, then apply for adjustment of status using the correct paperwork for that pathway.
From Newsweek:
“The couple’s immigration attorney, Carey Holliday, said he hasn’t been provided access to Paola Clouatre’s records. He has also said that her detention conflicts with a national policy allowing “parole in place” for military families, a provision that can help keep service member families together.”
I don’t know about the “parole in place” thing. Okay, explained here:
And why didn’t ICE follow their own ICE directive 11032.4? See:
“Another aha: they only got married last year.”
I saw that but only in one article.
“she married a US Marine, “
No. She married a dude that had an entry level pizza baking job.
“Going by this article, it looks like Adrian tried to do the right thing and had her file for adjustment of status based on her marriage to him, they kept appointments, etc., but it was all doomed by the (allegedly unknown) removal order.”
How many years did they wait “to do the right thing”?
“Aha. It looks like Paola’s mother entered illegally, then filed for asylum, and missed her hearing.”
Aha? A story we are told ...
“they kept appointments,”
Appointments? I read they kept one appointment. The one where they filed the papers after learning of the removal order. I cal, BS. They knew all the time.
“And why didn’t ICE follow their own ICE directive 11032.4? See:”
That doesn’t apply to court ordered removals.
“Also: If we don’t want illegal immigrants to be able to marry American citizens and thereby be given a legal path to citizenship, then change the law to prohibit it. “
No problem marrying an illegal. Just realize that the illegal may get deported.
“Going by this article, it looks like Adrian tried to do the right thing and had her file for adjustment of status based on her marriage to him, “
The submitted a 485 but it was invalid as there was no approved 130.
Begs the question. For eight years she had no idea of the removal order and suddenly she finds out? Does not pass the smell test.
“He has also said that her detention conflicts with a national policy allowing “parole in place” for military families, a provision that can help keep service member families together.”
He is lying. The dude is a door-to-door water treatment salesman having left the service three years ago BEFORE they got married.
Hard to believe anything with all the BS being tossed around by those with an agenda.
Your NOLA link:
“The arrest falls under a new set of tactics Trump has employed to hasten deportations, including encouraging enforcement operations near courthouses, citizenship offices and workplaces. Immigration officials used to avoid such tactics over concerns that they could discourage participation in the legal process.”
No bias there! Toss the article in the can.
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