Thread: Today Show Story: Illegals Ripped Apart Families

I was watching the story about David Goldman, who has been fighting for 6 years to get his son back from Brazil after his Brazilian ex-wife kidnapped him, and saw this SOB story about families being torn apart when some of their family members are illegal (boo-hoo!).

TexasGal


Immigrants' American dream rips families

June 16: CNBC's Carl Quintanilla looks at how some Hispanic families are being split apart as they try to pursue the American dream. TODAY's Ann Curry talks to the Munoz family about life in the U.S. without their parents.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp ... 1#31384551

Everyone should know there are possible consequences to illegal activity. They should be allowed to take their anchor babies back to their hoime country....

I hope tomorrow they interview Danielle Bologna and ask her how her family was torn apart by the murder of her husband and two sons by an illegal.

Originally Posted by ReggieMay

I hope tomorrow they interview Danielle Bologna and ask her how her family was torn apart by the murder of her husband and two sons by an illegal.

You know they arent going to be that nice and show the bad side of things

These children have only their ILLEGAL parents to blame. The ILLEGAL parents knew what they were doing; Abuse of the 14th Amendment to create an Anchor Baby and more ILLEGALS for U.S. Citizens to furnish benefits! The Elitist Politicians and their Elitist Contributors are socializing benefits to the ILLEGALS for the ILLEGAL EMPLOYERS, veiled as welfare for U. S. Citizens, on the backs of U.S. Citizens through our assets such as the Education System, Social Security, and Health Care not to mention our National Security while privatizing the profits for themselves!

The only reason the ILLEGALS have the Anchors is to stay in the United States and continue to receive the benefits, their Anchors are nothing more than throwaways for their agenda; if they were important to the parents they would take their children with them when they returned to their HOME countries . They do not want to be Citizens of the United States only to the extent that it would allow the ILLEGALS to remain in the United States for our tax money and they will return south of the border as soon as they have drained the United States Dry.

Americans across this country are fed up with these SOB stories of illegal invader families being "ripped apart!" Nobody cares anymore, except the illegal invaders themselves and their supporters, which are a small minority. The majority of Americans are sick and tired of this garbage being force fed to us by the MSM!

These stories are akin to a defendant standing before a judge , having been convicted of murdering his parents and then bemoaning the fact he is an oprhan!

Get over it MSM! We do not care about illegal invaders being "split apart" from their anchor babies!

Boo Hoo Hoo

This is a featured story on AOL news, so I presume it is being even more widely played in Spanish. There is a poll included in the source article which also is posted separately in Polls. Pictures and video also at source.
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-160423.html

Family Split Apart by Deportation

Posted: 2009-06-19 17:47:16
Filed Under: Latino News in English

When Esteban Torres was four years old, his father was deported to Mexico. Torres, who grew up to become a prominent member of Congress representing California, still remembers that day. He never saw his father again.

It was the 1930´s and Mexican-Americans, even those born in the United States, including Torres´ father, were being rounded up and sent south of the border. More than 1 million, mostly U.S. citizens, were illegally deported.

Deported Parents, Solo Children

Saul and Elvira Arellano After a long stand against U.S. Immigration authorities, Mexican Elvira Arellano was deported. Her son, Saul who is a US citizen, used the media as a platform to spread his voice in hopes of keeping his mother in the United States.

More than 70 years later, Saul Arellano, an 8 year old from Chicago, lived through a similar ordeal when his mother was arrested by U.S. authorities outside of Our Lady Queen of Angels Church in downtown Los Angeles and deported to Mexico. Despite being a U.S. citizen, Saul, having no other relatives near by, followed his mom, Elvira Arellano to Tijuana to return later, alone to Chicago to go back to school.

Elvira was not a U.S. citizen, she crossed the border illegally, twice. She had no legal rights to be in the United States, but what about the rights of her son? Does he have a right to be with his mom?

The children are U.S. Citizens

Saul´s story is not unique. Thousands of children in the United States live in fear that their parents could be deported, thousands more have seen their families torn apart by immigration laws. Being born in the United States ensures they are citizens from birth, and most do not know other country.

The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees citizenship at birth to almost all individuals born in the United States or in U.S. jurisdictions, according to the principle of jus soli.

Certain individuals born in the United States, such as children of foreign heads of state or children of foreign diplomats, do not obtain U.S. citizenship under jus soli.

Also individuals born outside of the United States are born citizens because of their parents, according to the principle of jus sanguinis (which holds that the country of citizenship of a child is the same as that of his / her parents).

Now roughly 150 children are asking President Barack Obama to halt the deportations of their parents until Congress overhauls U.S. immigration laws.

The children are all U.S. citizens and say their constitutional rights are being violated because they, too, will likely have to leave the country if their parents are forced to leave.

Hunger strike

In Miami on Wednesday, Ronald Soza celebrated his 10th birthday with cake and a serenade by more than 100 other children and their parents.

His own family: absent. His mother was recently deported back to Nicaragua. His father rarely ventures out in public in fear of similar fate. Now Soza and the other children -- all U.S. citizens whose parents could be or have been deported -- are demanding a say in the immigration debate.

They are suing President Barack Obama, asking a court to halt the deportations of their parents until Congress overhauls U.S. immigration laws.

This is Ronald's second attempt to bring his mother from Nicaragua. Last January he went on a hunger strike in the hopes of preventing his mother's deportation.

In a statement to the Miami Herald he said, ''I think it's really unfair...They take our parents away like they're criminals."

Constitutional rights violated?

The children, who gathered Wednesday at the Miami nonprofit American Fraternity to draw attention to their cause, say their constitutional rights are being violated because they will likely have to leave the country if their parents are forced to go.

Some children said their families didn't have enough money to pay for school supplies because the bread winning parent had been deported, and some are at risk of losing their homes. They also say they are suffering psychological and physical hardship.

"My grades went from A's to C's when my mom had to leave," said Ronald.

Hearing scheduled

Nora Sandigo, the head of the Fraternity, originally brought the case on behalf of the children against the Bush administration. She refiled it in January in Miami and a hearing is scheduled for August.

Sandigo said she is frustrated that the Obama administration hasn't done more to address immigration reform.

"Today these children's voices are not heard," she said as dozens of youngsters squirmed and twirled their flags on a rug before her, "but tomorrow these U.S. citizens will be voting."

Perhaps not literally, but many of the more than 100 children who gathered Wednesday are already in their teens and will be voting age by the next presidential election.

All roads point to Congress

Sandigo says many of the children's parents came to the U.S. before 1996 immigration changes made it more difficult for them to become legal residents. When they came, they had a valid expectation that if they stayed out of trouble for seven years, they could eventually become legal residents, she has argued.

Immigration experts say the case has a tough road in the courts because Congress explicitly made the law retroactive.

But the lawsuit may help get attention for the issue in the political arena, said immigration Scholar Louis DeSipio of the University of California, Irvine.

"It's a very conscious decision of the immigrant advocates to focus on this issue," he added, "to disabuse Americans of the images we have of men in their twenties and thirties running across the border, showing instead that it's a family affair."


AOL Poll

Children who are U.S. citizens of undocumented parents:

Should have the right to be with their parents

Deport them all

Sad, But their parents broke the law

Our laws need to be humane

http://noticias.aol.com/articulos/latin ... 0109990001

Constitutional rights violated?

OUR Constitutional rights are being violated. WE are natural born citizens under the 14th Amendment, it was written for the children of those under the COMPLETE jurisdiction of the USA ONLY, not for aliens and foreigners.

The traitors in DC are taking Citizenship and rights meant for US ONLY and giving them away without Constitutional authority!!!