Thread: Families of Illegals Sue

If you read the comments you will see how angry people are about illegals and their demands. Unfortunately I cannot post them due to some of the content in them. Here it does in South Florida we do not have as much censoring as California and anchor baby is allowed.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/services/ne ... 5931.story

Families of deported immigrants hope lawsuit, new U.S. president bring change
Families of immigrant deportees hope suit, Obama bring change
By Luis F. Perez | South Florida Sun-Sentinel
January 31, 2009
When in December immigration agents picked up Maricela Soza in Pompano Beach, her two children took up the fight to keep their family intact.

Cecia, 12, and Ronald Jr., 9, are among more than 600 youths from across the country poised to participate in a lawsuit that aims to stop the government from deporting parents of children who are U.S. citizens.

But the suit, which would seek class-action status, cannot be filed unless the U.S. Supreme Court orders federal district courts to allow it.

On Wednesday, they lost another battle when Soza landed in her native Guatemala courtesy of the U.S. government. Her children, both born at Broward General Medical Center, vowed to continue fighting.

Children claim deportation violates civil rights "I think it will eventually help us," Cecia said. "But I hope it will help a lot of other people."

With her mother gone, she fears that agents may soon come for her father, Ronald Soza, who is fighting to legalize his status.

More than 3 million U.S.-born children have undocumented immigrant parents, according to researchers at the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Hispanic Center. For years, immigrant advocates have fought without much success to stop deportations that split up many of those families. Now, with Barack Obama's inauguration comes renewed hope he will halt deportations until Congress changes immigration law.

"We have the feeling that he has the sensitivity," said Nora Sandigo, executive director of Miami-based American Fraternity Inc. and legal guardian of the children. "He understands us. He understands our families."

Lawyers for Sandigo originally filed a lawsuit in Miami federal district court more than two years ago, claiming the government violates civil rights of U.S. children by deporting their parents. After a Miami federal judge said the district court did not have jurisdiction, her lawyer, Alfonso Oviedo-Reyes, withdrew the case and then sued President Bush in the Supreme Court.

A clerk for the high court told Oviedo-Reyes he needed to modify the lawsuit before the justices would consider it. After doing so, Oviedo-Reyes waited for Obama to be sworn in before filing it again.

Richard Rosenthal, a Miami appellate attorney, said persuading the high court to hear a case is "extremely difficult."

"In most cases, the Supreme Court gets to decide which cases it wants to hear and it rarely wants to hear many cases," he said. "If, however, there's an overpowering human interest aspect to the case that can help."

Oviedo-Reyes acknowledges the chances of success are "very slim." But he expects to the court to decide soon whether it will hear the case.

Others think it's a losing case.

"Legally, it's baloney," said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for tighter immigration controls. "The children are not being separated from their parents by the government. They're free to stay or go home with their parents."

Even so, Congress has taken up the issue. Last year, the House Committee on Appropriations asked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to report the number of times it has deported parents with U.S. citizen children over the last 10 years. The committee also sought rationale for the deportations, how long immigrants lived in the country before being deported and whether the children stayed in the country. It is being finalized and is expected to be released in two weeks, a congressional aide said.

The Soza family would prefer the statistics didn't include them.

In the 13 years since Ronald Soza, sneaked across the Southwest border, he built a life many immigrants would envy. He saved enough to start a growing business. He bought a house. All that changed that one day in December.

Soza is hiding. He stopped paying the mortgage. He's out of money. "The only thing we wanted was to work to benefit our family and for my kids to have a good future," Soza said.

I hope they're successful! If this goes all the way to the Supreme Court I believe the intent of the 14th Amendment will have to be brought into play and if the judges abide by the true intent their citizenship should be REVOKED!

posted in the comments there too.

A clerk for the high court told Oviedo-Reyes he needed to modify the lawsuit before the justices would consider it. After doing so, Oviedo-Reyes waited for Obama to be sworn in before filing it again.




Maybe that's what we should be telling obama........that his historical presidency is the direct result of, and being marred by, the fact that every law breaker in the country is counting on him.....being a minority.....to side with them against the laws of the country he has sworn to protect.

Is that what he really wants to be remembered for?