Sending Illegal Woman 'Home' to Mexico Truly un-American-NOT
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Sending woman 'home' to Mexico truly un-American
Jul. 9, 2005 12:00 AM
Her favorite food is pancakes with strawberries and cream, which explains her favorite restaurant: IHOP. Her favorite TV show is Friends. She loves the movie Titanic for the romance, and for reasons I can't quite figure out, she, at 20 years old, loves the Beatles.
She is what you might call the all-American girl. In every way but one, that is.
By month's end, Yuliana Huicochea will likely be ordered to leave the only country she's ever known, exiled to a place she's never been. At least, not since she was a baby. advertisement
Yuliana is worried and understandably so.
"I don't have anywhere to go," she told me. "I don't know any other country. I've always lived here since I was 4 years old. I consider this my country. I consider myself an American."
So why, you might wonder, is Yuliana being given the bum's rush across the border? What offense has she given, what crimes did she commit that this country will be a stronger, safer place once she has left it?
She had the audacity at 4 years old to enter this country illegally.
Yuliana grew up in Phoenix. She's never been in trouble. She learned the Pledge of Allegiance in kindergarten, got good grades in school and even graduated a year early from Wilson Charter High School so she could pursue her dream of one day becoming a lawyer. She might never have drawn the attention of the Department of Homeland Security but for the fact that she exhibited a bit too much ingenuity and good old-fashioned American can-do spirit. In 2002, she was part of a team at Wilson that spent nine months designing and building a solar-powered boat. So good was their work that they were invited to an international competition in upstate New York.
Yuliana and three others on the team caught the eye of immigration authorities when their teacher took them to Niagara Falls on the U.S.-Canadian border.
Like Yuliana, Jaime Damian, Luis Nava and Oscar Corona were babies when they were brought here illegally from Mexico. And like her, they face the very real prospect of being sent to a country they don't know when they go before U.S. Immigration Judge John Richardson on July 21.
Richardson has twice put off deporting the four, in hopes that Congress might pass a law allowing them to stay. But that hasn't happened.
The four, and others like them, are caught center stage in a national uproar over illegal immigration where it seems any more that there is black and there is white and nothing in between. Either you are here legally or you are not.
Unfortunately, like our immigration laws, that sort of thinking doesn't work. Sending Yuliana to Mexico would be like sending you or me to a foreign country.
Like it or not and through no fault of her own, Yuliana is an American. Blame the parents who brought her here. Blame a corrupt country that encourages its citizens to flee north. Blame U.S. politicians who have long looked the other way and businesses that crave cheap labor.
Blame them all and certainly, fix our broken border. But it strikes me as decidedly un-American to punish Yuliana for a crime she didn't commit.
Like it or not, we've got a generation of children who have grown up American, hundreds of thousands who were brought here as babies and now they're stuck in a no man's land between a country they don't know and a country that doesn't want them.
And so, in a few weeks, Yuliana must go, proving that there is law and there is justice. And sometimes the one has nothing to do with the other.
Reach Roberts at laurie.roberts@arizonarepublic.com or at (602) 444-8635.
This is the attitude that has contributed to the problem!!!!
Excuse me but thinking that it is possible to deport all of the illlegal aliens in this country is preposterous!
Yes, we should secure the border, yes we should criminalize hiring illegal aliens. But if you think for one minute all of the illegals are going away, your dreaming.
There are going to be some instances where we are going to have give some amnesty, weather we like it or not. This is one of them. To expect a girl who came to this country through no fault of her own, raised here, went to school here to just pack up and to a country that she does not know is just stupid.
I am interested in the illegals coming accross our borders now, not fifteen years ago. We need to find them first and then worry about assimilated illegals later. This is going to be a long proccess and we need to get our priorities straight.
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Originally Posted by Julikins209
Excuse me but thinking that it is possible to deport all of the illlegal aliens in this country is preposterous!
Yes, we should secure the border, yes we should criminalize hiring illegal aliens. But if you think for one minute all of the illegals are going away, your dreaming.
There are going to be some instances where we are going to have give some amnesty, weather we like it or not. This is one of them. To expect a girl who came to this country through no fault of her own, raised here, went to school here to just pack up and to a country that she does not know is just stupid.
I am interested in the illegals coming accross our borders now, not fifteen years ago. We need to find them first and then worry about assimilated illegals later. This is going to be a long proccess and we need to get our priorities straight.
Deportation of ALL illegal aliens is logistically difficult, but not really necessary either. Prosecute hard, anyone who employs or shelters (as in rents them a house) an illegal alien, both of which are federal offenses. Cut off ALL taxpayer funded benefits. When they get hungry enough, cannot find jobs or shelter, they will go back home the same way they came, and new ones will stop coming.
Deportation of ALL illegal aliens is logistically difficult,
Yes it is logistically difficult. I am from California and I see the onslaugt of mass migration on a daily basis. If the California Beurocrats has stuck by Proposition 187 that Californians voted in we would not be in this predicament today. It just p#$%es me off knowing that my taxes go for free food, housing and medical for illegals and I have to pay for it. It is bad enough we have to subsidise legal U.S Citizens that take advantage of our system.
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Originally Posted by Julikins209
Yes it is logistically difficult. I am from California and I see the onslaugt of mass migration on a daily basis. If the California Beurocrats has stuck by Proposition 187 that Californians voted in we would not be in this predicament today. It just p#$%es me off knowing that my taxes go for free food, housing and medical for illegals and I have to pay for it. It is bad enough we have to subsidise legal U.S Citizens that take advantage of our system.
Julikens,
Nobody is saying we can or should deport ALL illegal aliens but we need to deport a lot. By sending them back with a tale of how their ill gotten gains failed it will serve as a discouragement for others to try the same.
Amnesty rewards lawlessness. Results? more lawlessness. Deportation corrects lawless behavior. Resulsts? Less lawless behavior.
At this point, we have to invigorate our deportation to send the correct message to the rest of the world. We can start by deporting the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens rotating through our criminal justice system.
ALIPAC's position is that illegal aliens should be deported when detected through routine law enforcement and raids on businesses. Will their be pain and suffering associated with the process. Of course there will, just like there is with any other crime.
illegal immigration is NOT a victimless crime. The perpatrators of other crimes go through hardship when we lock them in a cell and put them to work on license tags.
We cant restore our nation if we are not willing to be firm as well as humane. A lot of illegal aliens think Americans are soft and wimpy as it is.
They make jokes about our weight and our relationship with our pets and such and perceive us as weak.
W
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If the California Beurocrats has stuck by Proposition 187 that Californians voted in we would not be in this predicament today
If Congress was doing its job, it would have impeached Judge Mariana R. Pfaelze that ruled Proposition 187 "unconstitutional."
Judge Pfaelzer asserted "Texas tried to deny public education to illegal aliens. The Supreme Court ruled for the illegals, based on two pillars: 1) there were supposedly not enough illegal aliens students in Texas public schools to be a financial burden to Texas, and 2) Congress was contemplating an amnesty for illegal aliens in the U.S. (that occurred in 1986), and illegal alien students who were to be made legal would not be educated. Neither of those conditions existed in 1994."
18 USC 2381 provides that "Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States" -- "Whoever" does not exclude anti-American protesters meeting with foreign officials, the military, Supreme Court Justices or Congressmen, and Congress, not the federal courts, determines the penalty for treason.