Thread: LuisGutierrez - Illinois congressman to aid S.C. immigrant facing deportation

Illinois congressman to aid S.C. immigrant facing deportation

Under those criteria, Gutierrez said, “prosecutorial discretion” should be invoked in Sanchez’s case, and he should be released for good.

By Tim Funk
tfunk@charlotteobserver.com


U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, left, stands with Gabino Sanchez,
his wife, Laura, and their son, Roger. Gutierrez is working
to drop deportation proceedings against Sanchez.

U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, an Illinois Democrat who’s become a leading advocate for undocumented immigrants, will be in Charlotte today to shine a spotlight on the case of a S.C. father of two – both of them U.S. citizens – who faces deportation.

The reason Gabino Sanchez could be kicked out the country: Nine misdemeanor convictions, in South Carolina and Georgia, for driving without a license or driving an unregistered vehicle. Illegal immigrants sometime don’t try to get a license for fear of exposing their status.

Gutierrez plans to appear at the first deportation hearing for Sanchez, 27, of rural Ridgeland, S.C., who was brought, illegally, to the U.S. by his Mexican parents 13 years ago, when he was a teenager. Since then, he has worked as a construction and landscape worker, got married, bought a home and fathered two children, ages 6 and 2.

Sanchez has no felonies on his record. But it’s those repeated traffic violations that appear to be the reason the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) refused Gutierrez’ request last year that it drop Sanchez’ case. It did choose not to detain him prior to his 1 p.m. hearing today in a Justice Department-administered Immigration Court in Charlotte.

ICE, a federal agency, wouldn’t comment Monday on Sanchez’ case, but its Atlanta office did release a statement that suggested repeated violations of the law – not the severity of those violations – can make an undocumented immigrant an enforcement priority.

But the congressman told the Observer that his reading of the intent of a new Obama administration policy on deportation is to target those illegal immigrants who pose threats to public safety or commit serious crimes.

Under those criteria, Gutierrez said, “prosecutorial discretion” should be invoked in Sanchez’s case, and he should be released for good.

“We believe it would be wrong and unfair to put him in the same category with drug dealers and gang members,” Gutierrez said. “He’s a great dad, a great husband … and he doesn’t get speeding tickets, he doesn’t go through red lights, no driving under the influence, no tickets for reckless driving.”

The decision by police to never charge him with anything more serious than not having a license raises the question, Gutierrez said, of “what did he get stopped for?”

Sanchez’ lawyer had one possible answer. “It raises concerns as to whether Gabino was being racially profiled,” said Marty Rosenbluth, executive director of the Durham-based N.C. Immigration Rights Project. “The fear (in the Latino community) is the only thing he was guilty of was ‘driving while Latino.’ ”

Reached by the Observer, ICE released a statement:

“…ICE has adopted clear priorities that call for the agency’s enforcement resources to be focused on the identification and removal of those that have broken criminal laws, recently crossed our border, repeatedly violated immigration law or are fugitives from immigration court.”

Gutierrez said he chose to stand with Sanchez because his case is typical of hundreds of thousands across the country.

Also typical is what usually happens when such cases results in deportations, the congressman said.

“The mom stays behind with the children, and (the dad) tries to find a way back in,” Gutierrez said. “And if he’s caught a second time, he’s barred (from the U.S.) for life.”

source: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/03/12/3093138/illinois-congressman-to-aid-sc.html

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How can you be a leading advocate for law breaking illegal immigrants?

Ya, well, release the users back South of the border..........

Why isn't Gutierrez in Washington doing the job he was elected to do? Who is funding all his illegal immigrant supporting trips?

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Wow! 9 misdemeanors, sounds like this guy isn't going to follow the law no matter what! Hope that is brought up at his hearing!

Originally Posted by stevetheroofer

Wow! 9 misdemeanors, sounds like this guy isn't going to follow the law no matter what! Hope that is brought up at his hearing!

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And the Congressman from Illinois emphatically states Sanchez is 'typical' of at least 'hundreds of thousands' of illegal aliens all across America.

Does the Congressman realize it is against the law to aid, abet, harbor, shelter, or sponsor an illegal alien?

I do NOT care and do NOT believe:

“We believe it would be wrong and unfair to put him in the same category with drug dealers and gang members,” Gutierrez said. “He’s a great dad, a great husband … and he doesn’t get speeding tickets, he doesn’t go through red lights, no driving under the influence, no tickets for reckless driving.”

I DO care that he's had NINE cases of driving without a license, to me that screams I don't have to follow YOUR laws.
I DO care:

he has worked as a construction and landscape worker, got married, bought a home and fathered two children, ages 6 and 2.

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The TRUTH is that he's broken a lot of laws and gets away with it every day he stays here! The part of him buying a home is that he's taken jobs Americans will do.

I'd also bet my bottom dollar that WE paid for the birth of his children. WE probably pay for their groceries EVERY month. At tax time they get credit for having a family, even though WE pay for them. Bet those kids have FREE medical benefits. All the while Daddy pays NOTHING into the system, and reaps every penny he makes.

If it were up to me I'd be checking out everything about this man's life!

I wonder whose SSN he's using to work, buy a home and collect his tax refund.

Im with Reggie, WHO's Identity got Stolen so he could do these things? Buying a home, Working etc..I feel for his Victim, nOT him!

Illegals CHOOSE Not to have Equal Rights when they Choose to walk in Without Legal authorization!!..They could easily wait in their country, pay their application/immigration dues, go thru Proper security measures (medical disease check, criminal background check)...

But no, they CHOOSE to ignore and skip all that, come Pose Risks to Americans and America, and still expect sympathy and hand-outs!!
Saddest part is: America is happy to oblige!!! What utter foolishness!

These law breakers deserve NO equal rights, America ISN'T their country, and they DON'T want it to be, they only want the freebies and hand-outs!

These Illegals are "scared" to be barred from the U.S and expose what they REALLY are...GREAT! They Should be!!

However they don't seem very afraid when they block roads and sidewalks with their "Illegal and Un-Afraid" Protests!

What they are is LIARS, Theives, Scammers, Violent, Whiners, Greedy, Self-Indulging, Haughty creatures...They will suck this country dry and not think twice, and they'll be all to happy to walk into the next country offering freebies until that one runs dry too..
Then when Every country is dry, they'll complain that they are treated "unfairly" while they go "home" and roll in all their Stolen goods!