Thread: Adios Cecilia Velazquez: One less Illegal To Vote Democratic

YES WE CAN! Deport illegals, that is!

See the story below about an illegal functioning as publisher of a Spanish-language newspaper. Thanks to Uncle Sam, this senorita has been relocated to our lovely third-world neighbor to the south.

Adios---do not bother to write----even if you could!



Source:

http://www.belleville.com/mld/bellevill ... 351485.htm


Associated Press


ST. LOUIS - The publisher of a Spanish-language newspaper has been deported, ending a five
-year legal battle over her immigration status.


Cecilia Velazquez was escorted into Mexico on Friday and will be barred from re-entering the United States for 10 years, said Carl Rusnok, spokesman for the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement agency.


Velazquez, 36, is publisher of Red Latina, a Spanish-language newspaper. “Red Latina” means Latin network. She also is president of Radio CuCui, a group that brings ethnic performers and commentators to WEW-AM radio.


“I’m devastated,” Velazquez said from her cell phone, as she stood in Juarez, Mexico, an hour after being escorted back into her homeland. “No doubt they used me as an example.”


Her attorney, Raymond R. Bolourtchi, said her departure “can only hurt and damage the Hispanic community. She was their voice.”


Rusnok said Velazquez was given two weeks to return to Mexico after officials who stopped her in December 2000 in Houston determined she was “actually an intending immigrant.” Velazquez had entered the country on a visitors visa.


Despite the order to leave, Velazquez remained in the country and was arrested in 2003 in St. Louis.


Though she lost a series of appeals, she was hopeful letters of support written by politicians including U.S. Sen. Jim Talent and U.S. Reps. William Lacy Clay Jr. and Russ Carnahan would stave off her deportation.


“All the big guys were trying to get a special deal for me,” she said.
Lydia Padilla, president of TRC Staffing Services in St. Louis, which places Spanish-speaking workers with area employers, advertised in Red Latina.


She said the paper is the most respected in the Hispanic community, and the only local paper that is 100 percent Spanish.


“I did not know her legal status, but what I do know is she donated lots of time and money to needy causes,” Padilla said.

Adois!!!!

Yes she is an example of what is going to happen to the rest of them very shortly. No special rules for them, we all follow the same rules in this country, no exceptions.

what kills me is it took so long and she was allowed to appeal. Try appealing a deportation order in Mexico and see how far that goes....

Originally Posted by jonhaloi

what kills me is it took so long and she was allowed to appeal. Try appealing a deportation order in Mexico and see how far that goes....

I hope we can change that as well. This was an illegal with pull---so maybe a decent message will be delivered.

Originally Posted by lsmith1338

Yes she is an example of what is going to happen to the rest of them very shortly. No special rules for them, we all follow the same rules in this country, no exceptions.

Yes. I loved this quote: “I did not know her legal status, but what I do know is she donated lots of time and money to needy causes,” Padilla said

Well now she is in a nation full of needy causes! Fix Mexico, nut!

I only wish she'd taken all her illegal readers with her and a few hundred more besides. One by one. That is what it will take.

Originally Posted by jonhaloi

what kills me is it took so long and she was allowed to appeal. Try appealing a deportation order in Mexico and see how far that goes....

That's the beauty of living in this country, they want to use our benefits when it suits them, but they don't want to play by our rules when it doesn't fit into their agenda.

Originally Posted by ConcernedCitizen

Originally Posted by jonhaloi

what kills me is it took so long and she was allowed to appeal. Try appealing a deportation order in Mexico and see how far that goes....

That's the beauty of living in this country, they want to use our benefits when it suits them, but they don't want to play by our rules when it doesn't fit into their agenda.

What you just described is a characterist of human nature. It's definitely not immigrant-specific. It's still no excuse though, which is why we must enforce laws that protect us from being manipulated and abused by ourselves and by others.