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    Can good come from great pain?

    http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll ... 13066/1015

    Can good come from great pain?



    Let us be as clear as we can be about the one issue that must guide all other considerations in the case of Bryan Dos Santos Gomes, the baby boy who was kidnapped from his mother in Fort Myers two weeks ago.

    The issue is this: This sweet, innocent infant must be returned safely and in good health to the loving arms of his mother and father, Maria Ramos Dos Santos, 23, and Jurandir Gomes Costa, 26.

    What that means is that Dos Santos and Costa, who have acknowledged that they entered the United States illegally, must be allowed to stay here until their baby once again is a part of their family, no matter how long that takes and no matter whether their status as illegal immigrants contributed to the baby’s kidnapping.

    As we wrote in our editorial last week, Bryan is everybody’s baby.

    Having said that, it must be declared that this case is becoming a microcosm of our nation’s enormous immigration problem and, as such, could well be used as a catalyst for resolving that issue in the halls of Congress.

    Baby Bryan was ripped from his mother’s arms by a woman wielding a knife. It was first assumed the kidnapper was a woman who wanted a baby for herself.

    Then, police began suspecting human smugglers, called coyotes, to whom the baby’s mother said the couple owes several hundred dollars for sneaking them into the country. The father disputes this.

    Whatever the case, the nether world of evil that surrounds human smuggling is one that police and immigration officials call “vicious” and “motivated only by money.”

    Illegal immigrants fear the coyotes — both for their capability of inflicting pain on those who don’t pay up and for their ability to reach back to the immigrants’ countries of origin and inflicting retribution on families left behind.

    The coyotes are rascals.

    It is shocking that some among us are so devoid of feelings for the agony of the parents that they bemoan their illegal status.

    Participants in news-press.com forums make much of that issue.

    From a forum author calling himself or herself “Critical,” comes this example:

    “Deport the illegal parents back to the country they came from.

    “Problem solved.”

    And Russell Landry, president of Citizens Against Illegal Aliens, has called for the parents’ arrest because they involved themselves in the crime of being smuggled into the country from Brazil. “How are they still out free?” he asked.

    These are hate-mongering tirades that do nothing to solve the larger problem, which is that the immigration woes of the United States are complex.

    First, our borders are porous and need to be closed, making it difficult for coyotes to operate and for our illegal immigrant population to grow.

    Second, we don’t know what to do with the illegal immigrants who already are here, living among us as neighbors and workers. To deport them would be impractical, inhumane and damaging to our economy.

    Third, laws that punish employers for hiring “illegals” are seldom enforced. That must change. People from other lands come to America for opportunity, as has been the case since Christopher Columbus and that trip of 1492.

    Without opportunity — without jobs — there would be no illegal immigration.

    President Bush proposed a plan that would close the borders and give “earned citizenship” to illegal immigrants already here. It has been derailed by congressional hard-liners who want all those now here illegally sent home.

    We have long favored the Bush plan, or some version thereof, as the only really viable solution to this problem. Perhaps the Baby Bryan case, which shows the world the ugly dark side of this immigrant question, can be used by the more enlightened in Washington as compelling evidence that something must be done about illegal immigration now.

    Meanwhile, we return to the lead paragraph of this editorial: The first and, it must be, only consideration is getting Baby Bryan home safely.

    Let us be united in our hopes, prayers and good wishes to that end.


    This article in my opinion is nothing but a bunch of treasonous garbage. These people are not our problem, their criminals,they belong back in their country of origin not America! These people willing brought the pain on themselves when they decided to mock our laws!

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    I think they found the baby.

    They can all go home now.

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