Thread: Sign of a Good Trend?

December 4, 2007

Brazilians Giving Up Their American Dream
By NINA BERNSTEIN and ELIZABETH DWOSKIN

Like hundreds of thousands of middle-class Brazilians who moved to the United States over the last two decades, Jose Osvandir Borges and his wife, Elisabeth, came on tourist visas and stayed as illegal immigrants, putting down roots in ways they never expected.

After packing up their plasma-screen TV, scholastic trophies and other fruits of 12 prosperous years in the Ironbound in Newark, the couple and their American-born daughter, Marianna, 10, were scheduled to fly back to Brazil for good this morning. They expect their son, Thiago, 21, to follow in a year or two, despite his reluctance to leave the only land that feels like home.

“You can’t spend your entire life waiting to be legal,â€

“I’m worried they’ll grow up and ask me, ‘How could you have left America?’“ she said.

Well you should be worried because how do you think your kids will react if you have to tell them, "Well we had to leave because I didn't want to stay legally and do it the right way. We broke the law in overstaying our visa and now we have to leave because we didn't follow the law."

These are dishonest people who have betrayed their own children, you can't possibly think they are going to tell them the truth. I have a sinking feeling that all of these illegal aliens will blame enforcement of US laws for their problems and American racism as their reason for not being able to obtain citizenship. Personal responsibility for their actions is just not part of their agenda. I also believe that as a result of their anger and bitterness our future generations will be recipients of global backlash.

Good. Go home. If you want to be part of our countrty, do it the right way and don't overstay your visa. I hope we keep on hearing more sob stories like this.

They can't leave soon enough for me. As more counties and states enforce our immigration laws, hopefully this will become a trend, and they will leave en masse. After all, they are only here to use us. Our country means nothing to them.

[quote]“It’s just getting harder and harder to stay here without documents,â€

Bull!

They are going home because our economy has taken a dump, thanks in great part to the many illegals sucking it dry. Brazil offers them more now than we do so they are going home.

Good! Go where your loyalty lies. Take as many of your friends and relatives as you can.

It would've been great if you had a chance to send
some of the people who paint doom and gloom about
the US economy on a world tour to spread the rumor
that they're better off there, in their countries,
than here.

I still don't see how these cases disprove the claims made by advocates of enforcing immigration laws.

Can someone help me with that, since I don't speak the language of the New York Times, i.e. gibberish?