Thread: Man strives for next step in citizenship struggle

Man strives for next step in citizenship struggle

February 26, 2011 1:55 AM
Jared Taylor
The Monitor

ON THE HIDALGO-REYNOSA INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE — He’s a stone’s throw away from the only country he’s ever considered home, but the U.S. government says he can’t go back.

Robin Whiteley stood along the U.S.-Mexico border — literally, over the Rio Grande — on Wednesday, two months after he was deported from the United States for the fifth time.

First featured in a September 2009 story in The Monitor, Whiteley clings to the dream that he may reunite someday with his family in East Texas.

Since then, federal agents arrested him on suspicion of illegal re-entry. After that arrest — his fifth alleged illegal re-entry violation — his lawyers told him fighting the charge would prove futile in his bid to regain his U.S. immigration status.

He doesn’t know what he will do next.

‘NIGHTMARE’

Whiteley’s American parents adopted him from an El Paso midwife after he was born in Ciudad Juarez, Chih., on Jan. 4, 1974.

He received a green card when President Ronald Reagan granted amnesty to illegal immigrants in the late 1980s. Later, Whiteley established permanent residency.

Only when he was convicted of marijuana possession in 2000 did his real problems with U.S. immigration law develop.

During his time in prison, he learned he lost his permanent residency and would be deported.

Since then, Whiteley has been caught and sent back to Mexico four more times. Each time, he arrives there without any evidence he is a citizen, and he has struggles to find work and shelter — or learn Spanish.

“Nobody has to tell me I took my time for granted in the United States,â€

Another SOB story from a illegal...I can never get enough of these sad, sad stories.

If you don’t have money for a lawyer, you have problems.

Well golly gee, thousands upon thousands of Americans face that problem when they break the law!

Ya, another tear jerker.........

So he was deported 5 times.... first time because of being caught with marijuana. Wonder how much Marijuana to get a deportation especially with US Citizen parents he claims to have. Plus I always thought if a baby was adopted by a US Citizen that child gained besides a green card citizenship also later even before being an adult... assuming the paperwork was all legit (but not sure).

Then he re-entered illegally 4 more times before trying for a lawyer and being told "tough crap". Maybe after the first one if he talked to a lawyer he may have had it easier before re-entry blacklisted him.

But still I'm wondering just how big of a drug arrest this was to have happened. I doubt it was having just a quarter once on him heh.

Of course articles 1+ years back state that this man is being kept out of the US of a belief he has a misdemeanor charge but no record of what it was or when. Kinda seeing a bit of a difference in stories here...

He received a green card when President Ronald Reagan granted amnesty to illegal immigrants in the late 1980s. Later, Whiteley established permanent residency.

"Americans for Legal Immigration!"