"The Rio Grande Valley, the 120-mile-wide southernmost stretch of the border, is their most popular entry point."
To: SwinneySwitch
“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.
2 posted on
09/04/2007 1:40:28 PM PDT by
Bruinator
To: SwinneySwitch
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. 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.
3 posted on
09/04/2007 1:40:49 PM PDT by
American Quilter
(doug from upland--doing the work American journalists won't do.)
To: SwinneySwitch
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.
6 posted on
09/04/2007 1:57:31 PM PDT by
TheKidster
(you can only trust government to grow, consolidate power and infringe upon your liberties.)
To: SwinneySwitch
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!
Talk about trashy, sensationalistic journalism...
7 posted on
09/04/2007 2:00:38 PM PDT by
VOA
To: SwinneySwitch
9 posted on
09/04/2007 2:03:03 PM PDT by
Redbob
To: SwinneySwitch; All
"Immigrant?"
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..." )
10 posted on
09/04/2007 2:08:40 PM PDT by
backhoe
(Just a Merry-Hearted Keyboard PirateBoy, plunderin’ his way across the WWW…)
To: SwinneySwitch
“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. “
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.
11 posted on
09/04/2007 2:20:56 PM PDT by
monday
To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..
To: SwinneySwitch; All
DANGER!
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
13 posted on
09/04/2007 2:54:26 PM PDT by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: SwinneySwitch
They are pulling out all the stops............the children!!!!!!!!!!
14 posted on
09/04/2007 4:25:42 PM PDT by
sheana
To: SwinneySwitch
I just don't know if I can STAND it..it's so SAD....
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