[raybbr]

When was the last time you heard of this happening to an Hispanic family. It's okay to do this to these people because they are white. It sickens me.

This country will bend over backwards to accommodate people who want to change our social structure but a family who has assimilated must go.

[sneakers]

Seems to me they're picking on the wrong folks to deport. Last time I looked there weren't any Polish terrorists flying planes into buildings.

[Will_Zurmacht]

the last thing this country needs is more people who want to live in America, work hard and send their kids to school. this family needs to get with the program, and then get on some kind of program, those are the folks we need..../sarcasm

[Waco]

11-12 years is temporary?

[raybbr]

Ping

[Revolting cat!]

It's okay to do this to these people because they are white.

As obvious as that insight is, that is still the quote of the day!

[GovernmentShrinker]

Or black families. Why didn't Lee Malvo and his mother get this treatment?

[Commie Basher]

If they were Jewish, Baptist, or Jehovah's Witness, they'd qualify for "refugee status" as a "traditionally oppressed religion." No need to prove actual oppression. No quotas on U.S. admission for refugees, and they automatically qualify for SSI, welfare, and food stamps, without having to wait five years.

Certain other groups (Vietnamese, Cubans, Nicaraguans) also qualify for refugee status, although I'm not sure if it's automatic.

[LibFreeUSA]

These people (INS) are the same incompetent thugs who take innocent children that want live in freedom back to 'prison' (Cuba), but let terrorists come into our country so they can fly airplanes into buildings and murder 3000 of our people. I have no respect for the INS, they should be DONE AWAY WITH and replaced with mind-numbed robots!!!!

[Thinkin' Gal]

Korwek said the family was treated like criminals and given a choice by the INS ? stay in this country and appeal, but spend the next six months in prison without any chance to post bond or bail, or leave immediately.

Sounds like something they'd pull in a commie country. The parents probably remember that kind of stuff from when they lived behind the iron curtain. Wait a minute, something's not right here.

Were they carried away on eagles' wings? The Lord works in mysterious ways...

[Revolting cat!]

Let's put it this way, Poland don't have a Prince Abdullah or El Presidente Fox quietly threatening to turn off the spigot that feeds your thirsty SUV!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

It's really very simple. Congress makes the laws and the executive branch enforces them. If Congress wants people to be allowed to remain here on temporary visas, they should pass legislation to make the visas permanent. Otherwise, I expect my government to enforce the law. That means every illegal Mexican, Guatemalan, Saudi Arabian, and, yes, hard-working person from Poland needs to be deported. Change the laws, fine. But enforce the ones that are on the books.

[LO_IQ]

Bye, Bye, Illegal Aliens!

[B4Ranch]

An illegal alien is a lawbreaker. There is no other status which describes this person.

If they are working in America, they are taking a job away from an American citizen or a legal alien who abided by our immigration laws upon entering our country.

Please read Can You Change America? & Can You Change America? Part 2 before replying with an emotional plea.

[visualops]

I feel bad for the kids if their parents didn't keep them in the loop.
However, from what little actual facts are in the piece, it seems the family was treated by the book.
Now, this needs to be applied across the board, and you can't cry foul for certain people just because they have assimilated better than others.

At this time I'd also like to point out that things are not always as they seem. Not all immigrants are here for a free ride or to abuse welfare etc.
I work with a Mexican man who works his ass off and sends every extra dime after rent and food to his wife and kids in Mexico. A practicing Catholic with 6 kids, he's here because there's no money/jobs there. He's building a house there, that'll he'll go back to, as he has no intention of bringing his family here (he does have other relatives who did bring families here though) and staying. He says too much discrimination against Mexicans, and plus I just think it's the general way of life and culture. He probably would never have come here if he could have adequately supported his family by working in Mexico. Meanwhile, he works here and spends money here and contributes to the economy. I'll also add that it's a shame I don't see the type of work ethic and drive that this man has, in other people I've worked with over the years.

[Pushi]

They might just be better off in the long run. It's sad to say this, but it may be true.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

"The family was apprehended and arrested under a warrant for deportation on Dec. 3 and removed to Poland," said Grenier. "They were not criminal aliens, but were in violation of their status and they had been issued a final order of removal in August and given 30 days to tie up their affairs and depart."

These notices aren't sent in Polish?

[BenR2]

Meanwhile, 400 families of 4 have illegally slipped across our Southern border into this country!

[doug from upland]

They came here legally and were here 12 years. Another 1000 probably invaded from the south in the last 12 minutes and they will not be thrown out. This sucks.

[Drammach]

Whatever happened to "equal justice under the law"?

If we handle this deportation on a percentage basis, ( percent of polish immigrants in country on expired visas compared to percent of saudi, syrian, jordanian, iranian, chinese, mexican, columbian, venezualan, ad infinitum......)

Are there equal numbers of these other groups being deported?

I don't want to defend people overstaying their visas, but I have read of several incidents where people were still in the process of appeal, where the deportation made No Sense except as a publicity stunt by INS.
Doesn't anybody with sense run these bureacracies?

Government by Quisling?

[Hermann the Cherusker]

When was the last time you heard of this happening to an Hispanic family. It's okay to do this to these people because they are white. It sickens me.

We've had the same problem at work. We tried mightily to get an English Structural Engineer to be able to have a permanent work permit to do work at our firm in a capacity for which we had no other candidate. Of course we were rejected! How silly of us to think that the US wants English people immigrating here.

What is WRONG with this country, that it takes in the garbage of the Third World from the gutters of Mexico City and Shanghai and Somalia and Cairo (like Mohammad Atta) and puts them on the welfare roles, but refuses talented and highly educated people from Europe, Hong Kong, Japan, India, etc. who are begging to bring in their capital and talents to America to fill jobs that are going begging?

This is all going to end very unhappily methinks.