Thread: No place to call home

An immigration agent called Maha Dakar to his office a few weeks ago and told her the time had come to make a choice.


http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ ... 039/-1/all


Dakar began to weep.

The choice was simple, yet impossible: leave behind her Green Township home, her four young daughters and her husband and move to Jordan alone, or take the girls with her and subject them to a new and frightening life in a country they’d never seen.
Her husband was not permitted to go with her. She was not permitted to stay.
How could she decide, Dakar asked, when neither choice would keep her family together?
How could any mother do such a thing?
The sympathetic immigration agent gave Dakar a reprieve that day, but it will be short. She must report to him again in August with a plan to leave the country by October.
“We are willing to leave, but we want to leave as a family,â€

DO IT THE RIGHT WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Like it or not everyone in the world can't come here . Not without getting rid of 300 million or so Americans . Can someone show me how everyone in the world can fit in this country ?

This is a sad story - and I can have sympathy for these people.

The fact is, the whole world needs to understand that America is not a place you can just move in and stay.

I do blame our government, our news media, our movies, etc., for putting out the idea that 'you have a home in America' - no matter what.

There are rules and regulations and they are going to be followed - that's the story the world needs to understand.

We Americans have to follow rules and laws. The fact that we do is one of the reasons we have a country like we do. Since we suddently decided laws are just to be obeyed if it doesn't inconvenience you, we have started downhill.

The sad thing is that governments - many different governments have created the situations that left these people with no home and no 'state'.

I agree it is sad.

I wonder whatever happened to the times when foreign people actually STAYED in their countries, took pride in where they lived, made the best lives they could, etc, etc. Now it's all about coming HERE and making money, getting an education, and, just staying put. Not necessarily being an American, but living the American life to their benefit.

I have a friend who is Russian. We have had conversations in which I have told her she should educate her son about American history and presidents, to which she replied, "I don't care about any of that stuff."

She's smart, here to be a doctor, and has her U.S. citizenship, but she really doesn't "get" what being an American is all about, nor does she care. She's here for the lifestyle, and that's it. I think this is what is eventually also going to destroy us as a nation. That and all the MCPC crap.

Nobody likes to think of a family being split apart, but if Rep. Chabot gets a bill passed that allows her to stay, then open your arms for Elvira. Then the trend would start and we would never get the illegals out of our country. Because they all have children and this bill would allow them all to stay.

Okay, I'm going to take a different view on this one.

These people came here legally, seeking political asylum. Their family is being torn apart, while illegal aliens from Mexico and Central America are getting bleepin' ID cards in New Haven, taking sanctuary in churches, and marching in our streets screaming for their rights!!!

There is a hypocrisy here that is astounding!!! Frankly, I think these people should be granted citizenship. If they came here legally and they have a legal right to work and live here (meaning their visas are current and valid), then don't tear apart their family...give them citizenship.

Sorry, but that's my take on it.

Originally Posted by americangirl

Okay, I'm going to take a different view on this one.

These people came here legally, seeking political asylum. Their family is being torn apart, while illegal aliens from Mexico and Central America are getting bleepin' ID cards in New Haven, taking sanctuary in churches, and marching in our streets screaming for their rights!!!

There is a hypocrisy here that is astounding!!! Frankly, I think these people should be granted citizenship. If they came here legally and they have a legal right to work and live here (meaning their visas are current and valid), then don't tear apart their family...give them citizenship.

Sorry, but that's my take on it.

As far as I can find out they arent being denied citizenship...It has not been granted yet ... the time on the visas is ran out... it looks to me like its adding up to a bad call by the leagal advisers. I have just found out about this today i cant find the other storey but Im looking

Greg....when people come to our country LEGALLY, and they're living here LEGALLY, and they've broken no laws, and then they find themselves caught between a rock and a hard place...well, I think they should be given expedited citizenship as opposed to dividing up the family.

This is DIFFERENT from the situation we have with all the illegals from Mexico and Central America. I could go into all the differences, but I'm sure you get my drift.

AmericanGirl, I sort of agree with you in that they don't really have a country to go back to, in which case asylum could be granted. But not by passing a law, because then you would have to do the same thing with the other 45% of overstays.