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Federal agents said Zavala and Ibanez garnished the wages to pay off the smuggling fees, which averaged nearly $7,000 per visa.

If they were illegal immigrants why would they have visas?
I don't defend what this family was doing but it doesn't look like these were illegal immigrants, just uneducated and ignorant of our laws.

12 posted on 06/22/2004 6:45:48 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: Just another Joe
Having visas makes them legal aliens, but...

I don't defend what this family was doing but it doesn't look like these were illegal immigrants, just uneducated and ignorant of our laws.

I'm betting the way they obtained those visas was illegal, which does indeed make them illegal aliens. Regardless of their legal status, they're being placed into indentured servitude which - when I last looked - is not legal.

17 posted on 06/22/2004 7:52:34 AM PDT by HiJinx (The Left has never been constrained by the truth.)
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To: Just another Joe; HiJinx
Federal agents said Zavala and Ibanez garnished the wages to pay off the smuggling fees, which averaged nearly $7,000 per visa.

The team effort toward reporting failed in this case. It's not possible for immigrants to be here illegally with properly stamped government approvals (barring expiration), and the cost of that stamp would never be so prohibitively expensive. Either the reporters misused the word by confusing it with its verb form ("to give visa to") or the tyranny of political correctness is starting to wear on them.

Those folks from Peru were taboo.

47 posted on 06/22/2004 12:08:55 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus (The Cult of Death has no place in a representative republic.)
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