Thread: Children at the Heart of Illegal Immigration Debate - SOB Story

by Susan Graybeal
Yahoo! Contributor Network
59 mins ago

COMMENTARY | It's easy for me to take a hardline stance on illegal immigration when I only think about the numbers. According to a video produced by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, illegal immigration costs the United States an estimated $113 billion per year. There is a more than $19 billion difference in the amount households headed by illegal immigrants pay into the U.S. system versus what they take out of it. It's easy, when considering the only costs of the issue to American taxpayers to say,

"Detain them all. Deport them all."

However, the issue gets a lot less clear if you put faces to it. Names to it. How about the name Amelia Reyes Jimenez? According to ABC Nightline, Reyes Jimenez has spent three and a half years trying to get her son and three daughters back. An illegal immigrant, she was detained in 2008, when her youngest child was only three months old.

According to Nightline, a recent study by the group Applied Research Center shows that at least 5,100 children of detained immigrant were in the U.S. foster care system as of last summer. Reyes Jimenez's children, in foster care in Phoenix, are among them. Reyes Jimenez, herself, spent six months in a detention center and the next two years fighting deportation. When she was deported, it was via a bus that dropped her off just on the other side of the border. Now she works in Guadalajara and waits for a call from her lawyer. She has twice lost in the attempt to gain a visa on the grounds that the separation from her children was harming them. The case is going to be appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court... Eventually.

As she was unable to meet any conditions for regaining custody of her children, three of whom are U.S. citizens, or to attend hearings in family court, Reyes Jimenez had her parental rights terminated. And it's easy to toss around words like "anchor babies" and to look with scorn upon the notion of amnesty, or even of the Obama Administration's announced Immigrations Enforcement Policy which asks that family relationships be considered prior to deportation.

This is a country where, except in extreme cases, family courts provide steps that a mother can take if she wishes to regain custody of her children. This is a country where, if possible, the reunification of children with their biological families is the desire of the system. Or is it?

This is the country that Amelia Reyes Jimenez entered illegally. This is the birthplace of her daughters; the country they are citizens of. This is the country that took her children and then sent her away.

When trying to sort out this immigration issue, if this country has a heart at all, then its children should be as close to that heart as possible. All of its children. Even Amelia Reyes Jimenez's.

Children at the Heart of Illegal Immigration Debate - Yahoo! News

There's 2 sides to every sob story! The unemployment rate in Mexico is 4%, that's my damn sob story!

NOT!

The problem is the media and activist are quick to report on sob stories for illegals but never report on sob stories of the affects of illegal immigrantion on American citizens. Where are the stories putting the American face to stories of hardship on American families who cannot find work because of the impact of illegal immigration. Where is the American face of students who cannot get an education because of illegal immigrant students. We too have sob stories, but they don't seem to count.

Originally Posted by MontereySherry

The problem is the media and activist are quick to report on sob stories for illegals but never report on sob stories of the affects of illegal immigrantion on American citizens. Where are the stories putting the American face to stories of hardship on American families who cannot find work because of the impact of illegal immigration. Where is the American face of students who cannot get an education because of illegal immigrant students. We too have sob stories, but they don't seem to count.

I couldn't agree more!!!!!

These parents know full well the risks they take coming here. We need a law against anchor babies. These kids should be deported with their parents.

Yeah yeah in a few years, the daughters will be pregnant and the son a gang-banger. Let them do that in good ol mexico.

These children should not be US citizens to begin with. This practice of calling children born here to illegal alien parents US citizens if bunk and Congress needs to act swiftly to end this nonsense.

When she is deported, her children regardless of their citizenship should be deported with her. Where these children were born has no bearing on their rightful place with their mother wherever she goes which in this instance is to her home in her land of citizenship.

There are three, very efficient, very simple, very obvious, and very well known solutions to stopping illegal immigration from Mexico. None of which the US government is willing to do, for fear it will upset the underground economy or the new political monster now growing in the United States, namely illegal aliens from Mexico.

Here they are:

1: Convict and imprison employers of illegal aliens.

2: End anchor baby automatic citizenship.
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-249629.html

3: Build and patrol an effective physical wall the entire length of the 1,969 mile long Mexican border.

Texas - 60,000 babies of noncitizens get U.S. birthright Hispanic population exceeds 50 million, firmly No. 2

The Hispanic population grew 43% since 2000, officials said. In stark contrast, all other populations together grew by only about 5%, officials said.

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