I just don't know if I can STAND it..it's so SAD....
Posted on 09/04/2007 1:37:26 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
LOS FRESNOS — Gustavo spent his last hours as a 17-year-old playing checkers with friends, followed by a hearty dinner: chicken enchiladas, rice, refried beans, salad, apple juice and a blueberry muffin.
At 5 the next morning, he was quietly awakened, told to get dressed and escorted to an office. He sat there for nearly eight hours before uniformed officers put him in an unmarked white van and sped off.
It was the worst birthday of his life.
After turning 18 overnight, the young Honduran was moved from a dormitory-style center for undocumented juveniles to an adult prison and the deportation fast track. He was locked up with older men, ate prison food, used communal showers and toilets and breathed an hour of fresh air daily.
With Congress at an impasse over immigration reform, the growing number of children who make it to the United States illegally will continue to play a sort of lottery. A combination of luck, lawyers and legal circumstances decide if they stay or go.
The two federal agencies responsible for migrant minors — one offering protection and the other charged with deporting them — retain a deep disdain for each other.
They're likely to keep shuffling these youngsters between them in a turf war reflecting the larger immigration debate — compassion vs. security, "let them stay" vs. "kick them out."
Gustavo, who'd hoped to be released to an uncle in Baltimore, didn't win the lottery.
"I ran out of time," he sighed on his last night at the youth shelter in Los Fresnos, near Brownsville. "My uncle was doing the paperwork to get me to go with him, but they told me I had to leave."
He was deported in July and is back home tilling potato fields, hoping to enroll in school next year.
(Excerpt) Read more at mysanantonio.com ...
“He was deported in July and is back home tilling potato fields, hoping to enroll in school next year.”
Alas, Gustavo is where he should be.
Why, the poor little things. Let's end this sad situation. Deport every single one of them, and their parents, within 24 hours of catching them.
“Why, the poor little things. Let’s end this sad situation. Deport every single one of them, and their parents, within 24 hours of catching them.”
None of these leftists would have any problem at all if we were deporting these young folks to Castro’s tyranny.
I had a friend (living in El Paso) who was to be deported when graduated H.S. and/or 18 (can’t recall).
Anyway, at the time of the deadline, he was on a bus, off to join the Marines.
Earned his citizenship the hard way.
Anyway, the point of my story, is there is a way to avoid this problem.
Poor Gustavo, taking the heat for his parent’s disdain of our immigration laws.
I’d feel sorry for him but I ran out of pity when that lady holed up in the church got sent back.
Maybe it would be more efficient if I could find someone over in India with a lot of pity I could outsource this too.
As such, Gustavo had the same option.
Aaaaawwwwwww...
How about "criminal alien," since he broke our laws to "immigrate" here?
( And just BTW? Both sides of my wife's family came here legally, from Germany. If you want to see steam come out of a nice Christian/Honorary Jew's ears, just tell her these characters are some sort of "undocumented immigrants..." )
Heck, thats not so major. When I read the headlines I expected rape, murder, you know, MAJOR CONSEQUENCES! Sounds to me like he got it pretty good. There are worse things than plowing potato fields and going to school in Honduras.
ping
THIS
IS ABOUT PUSHING
the Durbin
DREAM ACT AMNESTY
it turns ALL MINORS into
anchor babies (ala pre 1996 Immigration Reform)
THIS IS TO PUSH
AMNESTY II
They are pulling out all the stops............the children!!!!!!!!!!
Not at all surprising.
Anyone ever follow him around to see if he visits the same toilets as Senator Craig?
I just don't know if I can STAND it..it's so SAD....
Excellent news. America is not a suburb of Honduras for him move to if he pleases. Stay home
That's how it hit me too.
“Gustavo spent his last hours as a 17-year-old playing checkers with friends, followed by a hearty dinner:
I got to hand it the “journalist” that produced this.
I really thought Gustavo was gonna’ be dead before the end
of the article!”
So did I LOL
I thought it was a “its all the fault of them there evil “anti-immigration” crowd that this here “upstanding”, “hard working” (ilegal alien) boy is dead..”
Talk about yellow journalism
I don’t know what the time frame of your story is, but illegals are not currently allowed to join the military. As it should be.
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