Thread: IL: Mother of 6 tries to avoid deportation

Mother of 6 tries to avoid deportation
October 20, 2008 at 3:52 PM | Comments (69)


In what may be the start of more such battles during the waning months of the Bush administration, about 30 demonstrators and elected officials rallied outside a Chicago federal immigration office Monday in hopes of stopping the deportation of a mother of six.

Francisca Lino, 41, was scheduled to leave the country this week after she entered illegally in 1999 and was arrested in 2005 during a hearing for her application for legal permanent residency.

A petition to delay the deportation for another year that was delivered Monday by U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and Lino's attorney temporarily halted the removal. Authorities are considering the petition's argument that Lino's family, all of whom are either U.S. citizens or in the country legally, would be put under financial and emotional duress if she left.

"We will review it and make a determination within the next few weeks," said Gail Montenegro, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Lino, who works in a chocolate factory in far west suburban Geneva, is the main provider for her family, said her attorney Chris Bergin. Her husband Diego Lino, 34, is recovering from a stroke.

"Allow Mrs. Lino an additional year at least to get her house in order," said Gutierrez, before hand-delivering the petition. "They all rely on her to take care of them."

Standing outside the ICE office with her family and other supporters, Lino said she had believed she was on the road to resolving her status in 2005. After being turned away at the southern border in 1999, she entered illegally a few months later, eventually landing in Chicago, where she met her husband. She applied for legal status in 2000 and was arrested five years later during a hearing for that application.

"I went in there very content and optimistic," Lino said about the 2005 hearing. "They had already given me permission to work and a Social Security number."

--Antonio Olivo, Chicago Tribune

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HELL NO! Get her AND her anchors out NOW! Husband doesn't work because of stroke and 6 kids since 99? No way can she support 8 people working at a chocolate factory= WE'RE being screwed! Illegal re-entry in 2000? DEPORT!!!

I am a teacher. This is the same thing that happens in the classroom if you don't establish control of the classroom from the first day. If you don't establish control, the students get lazy, disruptive and rude.

This is the same psychology of the illegal immigration situation. The idiots in congress have let them in, now they think they have squatters rights.

This woman and her hole family should be deported.

This has been going on since 2005 and she needs another year to get "her house in order"?

Or will it just take that long for her and the rest of the pack to leave town and go into hiding under new identities?

OUT WITH HER NOW!!!!

Her husband Diego Lino, 34, is recovering from a stroke.

How do you have a stroke at age 34? And how is it he 7 years younger than his wife? Something is very fishy here.

Originally Posted by Bowman

Her husband Diego Lino, 34, is recovering from a stroke.

How do you have a stroke at age 34? And how is it he 7 years younger than his wife? Something is very fishy here.

Probably from having 6 kids in 8 years? It's hard work, someone's gotta do it, eh?

about 30 demonstrators and elected officials rallied outside a Chicago federal immigration office Monday in hopes of stopping the deportation of a mother of six.

"Allow Mrs. Lino an additional year at least to get her house in order," said Gutierrez, before hand-delivering the petition. "They all rely on her to take care of them."

Hey traitor Gutierrez, since you enticed her to have those six kids by showering them with benefits, I think you and your friends should support them by sending them money in Mexico.

Originally Posted by Bowman

Her husband Diego Lino, 34, is recovering from a stroke.

How do you have a stroke at age 34? And how is it he 7 years younger than his wife? Something is very fishy here.

Maybe he had the stroke upon finding out that she wasn't really 7 years younger than him?

I think they should all go down to sunny Mexico as a family, with her. It is, after all, a vacation spot. Since she has experience at a candy factory, she could probably get on with Brach's Candies or Hershey - they have both moved their factories to Mexico. Seems with all of the outsourcing, she would have beter job opportunities there than here in her professsion.

Allied Van lines can get her packed up and on the road in 3 days, max. She could pickle out another kid in a year so I don't think she should stick around that long.

Unfortunately I doubt that the U. S. tax dollars would continue to support them. Healthcare for the husband, child care for the under school aged kids - 6 of them. Subsidizing a family that size that lives on 1 minimum wage earner's pay. Hmmmmmm

NO means NO, but we are talking about a woman that had too many children.

She needs to go home and take her kids with her. She has had since 2005 to "get her house in order". They need to sell out and leave. What does she want, a year to have another anchor baby or be pregnant when there deportation date arrives? No, you never give a criminal time to run off and pull another stunt before the next court date, just deal with them swiftly.

Dixie