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04-08-2006, 03:05 AM #1
Some find the doors closing
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Some find the doors closing
A family who left Mexico about nine years ago has suffered the effects of not having a path to citizenship.
Jackie Crosby, Star Tribune
Felipe Mancera never thought much about citizenship until his senior year at Highland Park High School in St. Paul. Because he was part of a family of illegal immigrants, he was bounced from a college scholarship program he'd been enrolled in since the seventh grade.
"This whole time I'm working toward this great opportunity and suddenly I felt like I was a criminal," said Mancera, 19, who came to St. Paul on a tourist visa with his family when he was 10.
Mancera's father, Felipe Sr., was a high school math teacher in Mexico City. His union activity made him unpopular with government supporters, the father said, and in the early 1990s he came to visit his brothers in St. Paul. He worked for three years to bring his wife and three sons to St. Paul. All have overstayed their visas.
In the eyes of the government, Felipe Sr. said matter-of-factly, he and his family are "illegal." Yet he and his wife own a two-story house in St. Paul, have full-time jobs as maintenance workers, pay taxes, and said they have never taken a penny of public assistance.
If a compromise reached Thursday in the U.S. Senate holds, families like the Manceras who have been in the United States longer than five years would be allowed to stay and seek citizenship if they can pay a $2,000 penalty.
But Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who has highlighted immigration issues, does not support amnesty, automatic citizenship or permanent status for those who came here illegally, spokesman Brian McClung said Thursday.
For young Felipe Mancera, the arguments at the state and national level couldn't be farther from his reality.
He came to America as a child, learned English, became a leader at his school. As an A and B student, he thought he had fulfilled the requirements of the Multicultural Civic Engagements Program, which offered a full scholarship to the University of Minnesota if he kept up his grades.
But when officials discovered his immigration status, they said he would have to pay the rate charged international students - three times the in-state tuition.
Now Mancera is working through the Minnesota Immigration Freedom Network to try to change state and federal laws that make it tough for immigrant students like him to attend college.
"It used to be illegal for a black person to sit next to a white person on a bus," he said. "Bad laws get changed all the time."
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04-08-2006, 11:08 AM #2
I am sick to death of these Mexican illegals using blacks history with white ppl as examples to further their illegal causes
The history blacks and whites in THIS COUNTRY has nothing to do with them! They have no civil rights here, because they are ILLEGAL!
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04-08-2006, 11:29 AM #3
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He came to America as a child, learned English, became a leader at his school. As an A and B student, he thought he had fulfilled the requirements of the Multicultural Civic Engagements Program, which offered a full scholarship to the University of Minnesota if he kept up his grades.
But when officials discovered his immigration status, they said he would have to pay the rate charged international students - three times the in-state tuition.Join our efforts to Secure America's Borders and End Illegal Immigration by Joining ALIPAC's E-Mail Alerts network (CLICK HERE)
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04-09-2006, 02:08 AM #4
Send him back to Mexico. My great uncle had the door closed on him when the US restricted immigration in 1921, so he ended up stuck in Germany. In WWII he was killed during an allied bombing raid.
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04-09-2006, 02:44 AM #5
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"It used to be illegal for a black person to sit next to a white person on a bus," he said. "Bad laws get changed all the time.""We have room for but one flag, the American flag" - Theodore Roosevelt
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04-09-2006, 08:44 AM #6"It used to be illegal for a black person to sit next to a white person on a bus," he said. "Bad laws get changed all the time."
Send his ass packing and good damned riddens! [/quote]MEXICO AT WAR WITH THE USA : GOVERNMENT SPONSORED - ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, INFESTATION, AND INVASION OF THE USA!
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04-09-2006, 10:16 PM #7Originally Posted by Americans1st"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it" George Santayana "Deo Vindice"
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