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NYC Lags in Granting Relief to Some Illegal Immigrants
WNYC ^ | November 26, 2012 | Sasha Chavkin

Posted on 11/26/2012 3:28:04 PM PST by moonshinner_09

Benito rarely emerges from the sushi bar where he works preparing fish and meat, and making deliveries on a small white motorbike, before the middle of the night. He considers ten, eleven or even twelve hours of work to be a successful evening, yielding good money to send back to his parents and his three-year-old daughter in Mexico.

“The more we work the more they pay us,” Benito said. “Most of it goes back to Mexico so that my family can eat.”

But Benito, who asked us not use his last name, has a problem. He crossed the border illegally in 2009, and one morning this March Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrived at his apartment holding a copy of false work papers he had used at a previous job. ICE opened a deportation case against him.

Benito is now seeking what is known as prosecutorial discretion — asking ICE to close his case because he says he’s here to work to support his family and doesn’t pose any threat. If the agency grants the request, he wouldn’t get a green card or work papers, but the government would stop its efforts to deport him.

Benito’s future depends in large part on a highly touted initiative by the Obama administration to increase the exercise of prosecutorial discretion. Last summer, ICE announced that it would shift its resources to deporting top targets like criminals and frequent border crossers, and close some of its cases against people who didn’t pose a safety threat. The agency said last November that it would review all pending deportation cases to try to shut down the ones that no longer fit its priorities.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: aliens; dhs; immigration; nyc
Here-“He doesn’t have a criminal record, -Here-“If their goal is to get rid of everyone who’s working with false papers, I think they will need to demolish all of the restaurants,” - working with false papers in not a criminal offense ?
1 posted on 11/26/2012 3:28:16 PM PST by moonshinner_09
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To: moonshinner_09

no criminal record?

illegal

false papers

working illegally

okay

““The more we work the more they pay us,” Benito said....
WAIT UNTIL that union gets to you!


2 posted on 11/26/2012 3:30:18 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: moonshinner_09

Welcome to America Benito.

Feel free to do whatever the hell you feel like. Laws are for “other people” like those citizen taxpayer suckers.


3 posted on 11/26/2012 3:36:55 PM PST by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: moonshinner_09

Meh, he needs to move to MA....
Obozo’s illegal relatives are doing really well from the largess of the tax payers of MA...go for it, buddy.


4 posted on 11/26/2012 3:44:51 PM PST by matginzac
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To: headstamp 2
How do newspapers and TV reporters have absolutely no problem finding illegal aliens, everywhere?

You'd think we "might" have a problem if there are so many "Benitos" out there, and so easily found.

Actually, my wife and I were going to breakfast yesterday and we passed by a Home Depot. I told her: see those men hanging out right there? They're all illegal.

She had no idea that HD is where you go to pick up day-laborers.

5 posted on 11/26/2012 3:48:22 PM PST by boop ("I need another Cutty Sark"-LBJ)
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To: moonshinner_09

“F” him! Who gives a damn about this “wetback”. He got here so I guess he can swim. Take him to the border and force him to swim back!


6 posted on 11/26/2012 3:53:33 PM PST by WellyP (question!)
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To: moonshinner_09

“F” him! Who gives a damn about this “wetback”. He got here so I guess he can swim. Take him to the border and force him to swim back!


7 posted on 11/26/2012 3:53:50 PM PST by WellyP (question!)
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To: moonshinner_09

“F” him! Who gives a damn about this “wetback”. He got here so I guess he can swim. Take him to the border and force him to swim back!


8 posted on 11/26/2012 3:54:23 PM PST by WellyP (question!)
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To: moonshinner_09

“F” him! Who gives a damn about this “wetback”. He got here so I guess he can swim. Take him to the border and force him to swim back!


9 posted on 11/26/2012 3:54:56 PM PST by WellyP (question!)
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To: moonshinner_09

“F” him! Who gives a damn about this “wetback”. He got here so I guess he can swim. Take him to the border and force him to swim back!


10 posted on 11/26/2012 3:55:41 PM PST by WellyP (question!)
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To: moonshinner_09

“F” him! Who gives a damn about this “wetback”. He got here so I guess he can swim. Take him to the border and force him to swim back!


11 posted on 11/26/2012 3:56:38 PM PST by WellyP (question!)
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To: moonshinner_09

Deport the law breaker!


12 posted on 11/26/2012 5:05:21 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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13 posted on 11/26/2012 5:06:09 PM PST by onyx (FREE REPUBLIC IS HERE TO STAY! DONATE MONTHLY! IF YOU WANT ON SARAH PALIN''S PING LIST, LET ME KNOW)
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To: moonshinner_09

This is a little off topic but I found this story in the British paper the Daily Mail. This paper seems to be a great place to learn things that are censored by most of the media. It is the story of a brave young Mexican woman mayor, mother of three children, who stood up against the cartels and paid with her life.

While this young heroine was fighting the cartels our own corrupt politicians are providing them places to hide out in their sanctuary cities. Remember that the cartels have thousands of distributors throughout our country, without millions of illegals in our country, the Mexican cartels would not be able to make their billions in blood soaked money. Every pro-illegal politician or cheap labor enthusiast is contributing to the drug and human trafficking cartels that are terrorizing Mexico.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2238577/Maria-Santos-Gorrostieta-executed-surviving-assassination-attempts.html?ICO=most_read_module


14 posted on 11/26/2012 7:00:29 PM PST by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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