Thread: VIDEO: Gomez family to be deported to Colombia.â€

The parents of two anchor babies who lobbyed for the DREAM act, will soon be deported to Colombia. Mrs. Gomez shows her bitterness.

VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKe9q4K8qGw

This report has background information on the Gomez family.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_d ... 83560.html

Immigration advocates have said the bill (DREAM act) is one of the only alternatives for students like Juan and Alex Gomez, two Miami Killian High graduates who are fighting deportation orders back to Colombia, which they left as toddlers with their parents.
The Board of Immigration Appeals has refused to reopen the family's asylum case, and Julio and Liliana Gomez are scheduled to be deported Tuesday, said their attorney, Cheryl Little of the Miami-based Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center.
Little called the bill's demise a ``sad day for tens of thousands of deserving students who only want an opportunity to better themselves and give back to the country they love.''
Congress will look into the boys' case and they are eligible to stay in the country until at least March 2009 under legislation filed by Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.
Miami Herald staff writer Lesley Clark contributed to this report.

Congress will look into the boys' case and they are eligible to stay in the country until at least March 2009 under legislation filed by Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.

You don't get a repreive from congress. Hello, the judge said go and there is no law to stop that. Just because something is filled, is not law or effective in court.

Are these people just making things up as they go along?

Dixie

Senate rejects latest immigration bill
Another immigration measure fizzled as U.S. senators passed up a bill to give undocumented immigrants' children a chance to apply for citizenship.

Posted on Thu, Oct. 25, 2007
By DAVE MONTGOMERY
dmontgomery@mcclatchydc.com

WASHINGTON -- The Senate flinched again Wednesday on the issue of immigration, refusing to consider legislation that would have put thousands of undocumented immigrant students on paths to citizenship.

By 52-44 -- eight short of the 60-vote majority needed under Senate rules to bring the bill up for debate -- senators effectively killed the DREAM Act after the Bush administration announced its opposition to it. The bill's defeat came four months after the Senate rejected more comprehensive immigration legislation that the White House supported.

Known as ''the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act,'' the bill would have allowed undocumented immigrants' children who have grown up in the United States the opportunity to apply for citizenship if they graduate from high school and attend two years of college or serve in the military.

While far more limited than the bill that died in the Senate in late June, the measure nevertheless ignited the same divisions, with opponents denouncing it as amnesty that would pave the way to legalizing millions of immigrants.

Tensions flared after Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., a presidential candidate who is calling for restrictive immigration policies, sought unsuccessfully to obtain the arrests of several undocumented immigrant students whom the bill's chief sponsor, Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., invited to Washington to help lobby for the legislation.

''America is a better nation than what we hear from the likes of that congressman,'' Durbin said on the Senate floor before the vote. Tancredo later shot back in a news release that Durbin's bill was designed ``to do one thing -- benefit illegal aliens.''

Durbin has sought for years to obtain passage of the measure to help undocumented immigrant children, who he said are caught in legal limbo after entering the United States with their parents. Many, he said, grow up in this country but are unable to become citizens because of their undocumented status. ''These are kids without a country,'' he said.

Florida's senators -- Republican Mel Martinez and Democrat Bill Nelson -- voted to take up the measure. Immigration advocates have said the bill is one of the only alternatives for students like Juan and Alex Gomez, two Miami Killian High graduates who are fighting deportation orders back to Colombia, which they left as toddlers with their parents.

The Board of Immigration Appeals has refused to reopen the family's asylum case, and Julio and Liliana Gomez are scheduled to be deported Tuesday, said their attorney, Cheryl Little of the Miami-based Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center.

Little called the bill's demise a ``sad day for tens of thousands of deserving students who only want an opportunity to better themselves and give back to the country they love.''

Congress will look into the boys' case and they are eligible to stay in the country until at least March 2009 under legislation filed by Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.

Miami Herald staff writer Lesley Clark contributed to this report.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_d ... 83560.html

She is here 17 years....and can't speak English??????????????

good riddance

Little called the bill's demise a ``sad day for tens of thousands of deserving students who only want an opportunity to better themselves and give back to the country they love.''

Which country?? Columbia??