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    Katrina immigrants ordered to deportation court

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    Wednesday, September 21, 2005

    Katrina immigrants ordered to deportation court

    Louie Gilot
    El Paso Times

    A handful of undocumented immigrants who fled Hurricane Katrina have been ordered to appear for deportation hearings after heeding the Bush administration's call to seek help regardless of immigration status.

    Three of them had found refuge at the Judson F. Williams Convention Center in El Paso, along with more than 600 other evacuees who made their way to the city. The men, two Guatemalans and one Filipino, had planned to leave El Paso by bus to be reunited with family members, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.

    "They were concerned that they would be arrested and detained at the Border Patrol checkpoint, which was likely to happen," ICE spokeswoman Leticia Zamarripa said.

    The migrants spoke to a non-governmental rescue agency at the convention center about their fears and the agency made an appointment for them at the ICE office.

    The men, who have no criminal records, were released after being told to appear in court, where a judge will decide whether they will be deported.

    Immigration lawyer Ouisa Davis, who represents one of the men, said her client was in the United States "for five years. He'd been sending money to his family."

    Other evacuees who found hospitality in El Paso said they weren't shocked to hear undocumented immigrants were victims of the hurricane as well.

    "They're everywhere. I mean, I knew a lot of Hondurans in New Orleans," said Terry Lopez, who is staying with her mother in El Paso.

    After Katrina, the Homeland Security Department encouraged all storm victims, including undocumented immigrants, to seek help. The appeal was made in English and Spanish.

    The agency did not say that information on immigration status would be withheld from law enforcement agencies -- a protection extended after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Senate Democrats have been pressing for such protection.

    In the days after the hurricane, Mexican President Vicente Fox made a televised appeal, also in English and Spanish, urging Mexican nationals affected by the storm to seek help. He said U.S. authorities had assured his government that "those who were not documented at the time will not be subject to any pressure or persecution whatsoever."

    Tuesday, representatives of Latin American and Caribbean communities appealed to the White House to give undocumented immigrants affected by Katrina "protected humanitarian status."
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    Immigration lawyer Ouisa Davis, who represents one of the men, said her client was in the United States "for five years. He'd been sending money to his family."
    Yeah, I'm sure he really missed them if he'd been here that long. He was probably getting wasted and carousing on Bourbon Street every night. What a load of liberal PC crap.

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    Immigration lawyer Ouisa Davis, who represents one of the men, said her client was in the United States "for five years. He'd been sending money to his family."
    What a hero!! Sending money to his family!! That's part of the giant sucking sound I keep hearing...whatever happened to Ross Perot...bless him, he was right again.

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    whatever happened to Ross Perot...bless him, he was right again.

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    He had my vote.
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    that sucking sound was 18.5 BILLION just to MEXICO for the firsst haalf of this year according to mexico City based AZTECA television....soon $100 Billion will be leaving the USA ANNUALLY to all countries of the world!

    we export jobs and import people....sound thinking!

    these immirants will be ordered to court and hey, they will not show up!!

    either you remove them immediately or they will not leave! stupid judges probably know they will not show up for a court date...

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    Thank King Jorge for not closing this dangerous loophole in our flawed immigration system.

    IMPEACH JORGE BUSH!!!!
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    He had my vote.
    Mine, too. Had he not pulled out after the threats to his daughter ( which I believed, btw) he would have won the election. He made sense. No one running for the office has made sense in 80 years.

    I don't know where the goofballs are coming from...but I wish they'd go back under whatever rock they crawled out from.

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