Posted on 05/22/2007 11:25:20 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
He claims to have been here since he was a child, and he still hasn't learned how to speak English?
There are so many ways to go “prucol” with the INS it ain’t even funny. He hasn’t learned English, so deport him!
To generate a media sob story so we will agree to make around 20 million of his compatriots citizens with an asinine piece of amnesty legislation.
It is sort of like when the taxpayers revolt against city hall and the city reacts, not by trimming back the employment of do-nothing city workers and junkets for bureaucrats, but by closing public swimming pools and police stations.
3 of my 4 great grandmothers never learned English. Then again, they came in their late teens/early twenties, and their husband’s at least had a rudimentary understanding of the language.
Sounds as if Sadie started her family at 15-16, she got a jump start on the system...
He knew the risks when he knowingly broke our laws. The laws were in place BEFORE he came over. This is his problem.
-your daughter’s friend is lucky, this guy not so much. Sad.
And all you I-dare-you illegal immigrant protesters , you better take note, cause we are coming after you next.
why doesn’t he just use his real ID and get a life?
Fernando's been here for 15 YEARS...and he still can't speak English?
He's been here for 15 FRICKING YEARS..and he still cannot speak English.
Good lord...Garcia failed to follow-up on citizenship papers that were started FOR HIM BY HIS PARENTS !!!
If it mattered to him then he should have followed up on his citizenship status on his own after he became 21. You snooze...you lose.
Fernando, who came here legally as a teenager and after over a decade still hasn’t managed to learn enough English to converse without an interpreter, was simply too cheap and too lazy to make sure his immigration status was kept up to date. He is now an illegal immigrant and has no one to blame but himself.
Fernando maintains that he came here legally and thought he'd done everything required. His parents, who live in rural Pennsylvania, started the citizenship process for their six children soon after coming to the U.S. in the mid-1990s. Garcia lived with his family in Pennsylvania for a few years before moving to New York. He has a legal New York state driver's license and documents that state that his status was approved for review so he thought the citizenship process was still under way.
His parents recently became citizens after seven years in the system, but the paperwork they started for their children was nullified as each turned 21, Sadie said.
But no one ever told him that, he said.
He entered the country legally with his parents when he was a child. His parents applied for citizenship for him and he has the paperwork to prove it.
He is a victim of "timing out." That's when a dependent's turns 21 before their case is processed. At that point, he is no longer considered a dependent and USCIS drops his case due to ineligibility.
In other words, even though the family did everything right, the immigration bureaucracy took too long so they cancelled his application. And the government did not notify him!
So he thought he was legal and that's why he never had his wife sponsor him.
This case is a real example of how the current immigration system is broken. With most other visas, the date is based on when you file, not when Immigration gets to your case.
He and his family do have my sympathies for this plight.
Legal immigration takes a very long time. I'm in the middle of the process and I've been here, legally, for over 12 years! I still have 1-2 years to go based on current USCIS processing times. So if I had any kids 9 years of age or older when I came here, they would not be allowed to be in the country because they would have gotten too old because of processing times!
The problem is that there is no enforement efforts against illegals. It people who are doing it legally that USCIS goes after. Legal immigrants are on USCIS's radar screen so they can be carefully scrutinized. The illegals are not. Since USCIS doesn't know who they are, the illegals have little to worry about.
Immigration might be a time consuming process, but Fernando's story is BS.
Garcia is 28. His parent brought him into the country in “the mid 90’s”. So let’s say 12 years ago. That means he was around 16 when he came into the country. 5 years to go from an “off the radar screen” illegal, to a naturalized citizen isn’t a whole lot of time.
It also appears that Mr. Garcia doesn’t speak English well enough to converse with the reporter sans interpreter. We only have their word that they were attempting to “get legal”. I rather doubt it.
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This guys whose family came here illegally or overstayed visas like a bunch of wise guys. His parents were able to game the system and get legal residence then citizenship. Looks like he screwed up. Either way he is an illegal alien who jumped the lines of those waiting to legally immigrate. His whole family did. I have no sympathy.
Well, well. The age of miracles is not past! Even more miraculous, the Feds seemed to have shown up! And taken the prisoner!
He entered the country legally with his parents when he was a child. His parents applied for citizenship for him and he has the paperwork to prove it.
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I doubt that’s true. They seem like visa overstayers
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