Posted on 05/17/2007 5:37:04 PM PDT by mdittmar
Profiles of some illegal immigrants interviewed about a Senate proposal that would offer them a path to citizenship.
(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...
Now they are being interviewed.
ping
They’re working for the paper!!!!
They write WHORE-hey’s speeches.
The voting record for this obscenity has not been posted, yet. When I find it, next election I will campaign against anyone, of any party, who voted for it. This is a slap in the face the American citizens and those applying legally to become American citizens. They’ve known where they are all along. With their buddies who hire them.
Talk about being betrayed by your own.
“Carrillo’s routine is to stay in the United States for three years, then return to Mexico by plane for three months before making the journey across the border to repeat the cycle.”
Uh...since I as a US citizen have to show my passport at the boarding to get OUT of the country, how does this clown just hop on a plane and skedaddle?
You mean the TSA can’t figure out he’s an illegal, or am I as a citizen the one with no rights.
Carrillo said he would consider a plan for citizenship that allows people to pay the fine in installments and requires a shorter wait. "If it takes eight to 13 years, it's too long to wait because I am an old man."
"he would consider"
What gall.
I see they’re whining about the $5,000 fine. Boo freakin’ hoo.
Immigration Petition
http://www.grassfire.org/42/petition.asp
Illegal immigrants question Senate deal By PETER PRENGAMAN, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 54 minutes ago
David Guerra wants to be legal, but he says the path to citizenship offered by the Senate on Thursday would be too risky and too expensive, and could end up driving him deeper into the shadows.
Guerra’s wife and children in El Salvador depend on the $300 he sends home each month from his job as a day laborer. Key provisions of the legislation would require him to return home to apply for residency, pay a $5,000 fine and spend thousands more in application fees.
That would be disastrous for his family, he said, and, worse, he’s not sure he can trust U.S. immigration authorities who have been rounding up and deporting his fellow immigrants for months.
“If I go home, who is going to guarantee that I’ll be let back in?” said the 44-year-old who lays bricks, clears weeds and does landscaping.
Across the nation, illegal immigrants, many of whom toil in dirty, low-paying jobs, sharply criticized the Senate’s immigration overhaul package as overly burdensome and impractical.
“Where would I find $5,000? In two years, I don’t get $5,000,” said Daniel Carrillo Maldonado, an illegal immigrant who was looking for construction work outside a Home Depot in Phoenix.
The agreement between the Senate and White House would allow illegal immigrants to obtain a special visa. After paying fees and the fine, they could get on a path to permanent residency that could take eight to 13 years. Heads of household would have to return to their home countries first.
Some illegal immigrants said returning home presented another major hurdle: Applying for residency at U.S. embassies in their home countries.
Amy Ndour, a 23-year-old illegal immigrant from Senegal who lives in New York, said she would be willing to pay the $5,000 fine, but not return home because her family there depends on what she earns as a hair braider.
“I’m helping myself” here, she said. “I’m helping people there too.”
Karina Corona, 32, an illegal immigrant from San Diego, works seven days a week at two jobs — one at a delicatessen and another as a seamstress. She said $5,000 is a small price to pay.
“Compared with the better jobs you can get, it’s nothing. It’s well worth it,” she said.
Carlos Velazquez, a 40-year-old illegal immigrant in Los Angeles, said he applied twice for visas in Honduras, and both times had to pay several bribes to local embassy staff.
“Only with money will the monkey dance,” said Velazquez, using an idiomatic expression to refer to bribes.
-——REST OF BS SNIPPED———
Now you get it.
“I like to give a shout-out to my man Ricardo...I made it man! Coronas on the house” (Mariachi music plays)
Re: COMMENTS: He said the proposed $5,000 fine was too much to ask illegal immigrants to pay upfront. “Where would I find $5,000? In two years, I don’t get $5,000.”
Carrillo said he would consider a plan for citizenship that allows people to pay the fine in installments and requires a shorter wait. “If it takes eight to 13 years, it’s too long to wait because I am an old man.”
“he would consider”
What gall.
The same way these hard working, tax paying undocumented immigrants pay for the stairstep childrens deliveries at the hospitals... they don’t.
BTW,
How can they pay the fine unless they’re here working and NOT back in their country as required first?
They also said the head of household has to travel and come back... who do you think will be taking care of the families? Yep, us.
You haven’t seen anything... wait till the wage increase.
He has nothing to worry about. Lost in all this is the fact that the government will NEVER be able to implement, or enforce, any part of this fiasco.
Down the road the government will just say:
Nevermind: Your all citizens now!!
We don’t enforce the laws we have now, who is going to collect the $5,000? Our Senate at work, again. They are incapable of coming up with anything intelligent.
HELLO....and who is going to enforce the law? Oh, the same feds that enforced the law the last time...NO ONE!
This is all smoke and mirrors. Do Not Vote For Anyone Who Supports This POS Bill.
I don’t trust this gov’t. with the $5k penalty. Like Paris Hilton’s penalty once this is signed expect all the bleeding hearts will greatly reduce or eliminate it. Then the Dems look like heroes and Chavez to these illegals.
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