Posted on 09/27/2008 12:27:57 PM PDT by HollyButler
Jose Herrera said he came to the United States when he was 7. Arrested at an Immigration raid recently and detained for three months in Cook County Jail, he has a court case pending in which he's trying to gain permanent residency.
"I have a 7-year-old child to support," said Herrera, 25. "These raids don't do any good. They just separate families."
He joined more than 100 people Wednesday night who marched and held a candlelight vigil in the western suburbs in an effort to halt raids, address inhuman conditions at Immigration detention centers and urge enactment of a state law that would give clergy access to detainees in county jails.
The protesters, spearheaded by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, marched several miles from Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Melrose Park to a detention center in Broadview near Lexington and Beach Streets, where they held a candlelight vigil.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Support your kid in Mexico.
That should make it easier to catch them all in one place.
1 raid doesn’t do much good. 100 raids is a good start.
Citizens have the right to free speech. Illegals should self deport.
He had all those years to acquire legal residency. No the fanny is in the fan, he’s claiming victimhood. T.S.
“Crowds”? 100 people?
Jose Herrera said he came to the United States when he was 7. Arrested at an Immigration raid recently and detained for three months in Cook County Jail, he has a court case pending in which he’s trying to gain permanent residency.
“I have a 7-year-old child to support,” said Herrera, 25. “These raids don’t do any good. They just separate families.”
Any criminal that gets arrested ends up seperated from their family. You are a criminal. Yopu may get seperated from your family. That is what happens in a Nation of Laws, which coming from Mexico I am sure you do not understand...
Maybe these people need to go to the “Show Me” state and see how they handle situations like this.
That's not true, we should be willing to deport the child along with him.
Agreed. Seems the “family values” argument is the latest ploy....
Immigrant and Refugee Rights
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Immigrants are here legally...they dont need further “rights”
Refugees are here legally...they dont need further “rights”
This isnt about immigration of any sort...
These are illegal aliens...
Nope...nothing to do with immigration..
I’m an immigrant...
I didnt miss out on any so called “rights”
I had all the rights under the COTUS that American citizens had...
Except to get a government job and vote...
I picked those up when I was naturalized...
You were saying ????????????????????
PING
“He joined more than 100 people Wednesday night who marched and held a candlelight vigil in the western suburbs in an effort to halt raids,”
....hiding in the shadows again.....
Now, say thank you to the citizens of the United states where you lived free and illegally as you used our system for all it was worth as they paid you and your son and whoever else’s way.
Then leave.
“Immigrants are here legally...they dont need further “rights”
Refugees are here legally...they dont need further “rights”
This isnt about immigration of any sort...
These are illegal aliens...
Nope...nothing to do with immigration..
I’m an immigrant...
I didnt miss out on any so called “rights”
I had all the rights under the COTUS that American citizens had...
Except to get a government job and vote...
I picked those up when I was naturalized...
You were saying ????????????????????”
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That’s the BEST thing I’ve seen on this subject in those few words.
Now, how do we get everyone to understand it!
Expect more of this crap if La Raza gets its share of the bailout.
Some recent Arizona stats:
Arizona population: 6,338,755 (2007 est.)
More than 991,584 people living in Arizona last year were born in other countries.
And 70 percent of them are not U.S. citizens.
That 991,584 estimate from the federal agency amounts to 15.6 percent of the state’s population.
Only 12.8 percent of Arizonans were foreign-born in 2000.
Ten years before that, the figure was 7.6 percent of the population.
But a separate report released by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security estimated Arizona’s “unauthorized” population in January 2007 at 530,000, which would be about three out of every four non-citizen residents.
The national percentage of foreign-born residents is 12.6 percent, up from 11.1 percent in 2000 and 7.9 percent in 1990.
But Arizona is not even in the top five of states in this category.
California leads with more than 27 percent of its more than 36.5 million residents having been born outside the U.S. And New York, New Jersey, Nevada, Florida, Hawaii and Texas all have higher percentages of foreign-born residents than Arizona.
Source: http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/metro/258849.php
Tough chit Jose .. get the f outta my country and try to come back in the right way !
To the Chicago Trib and the illegals: Bite me. If you want to stay with your family, try staying in your country - or - (wait for it) come here legally. Then, we’ll welcome you.
This from lawbreakers who invaded the United States and rode the govt gravy train for all it was worth. Working class US citizens worked 2-3 jobs to subsidize their sorry *****. They should GTH out of our country without delay.
Please read this link..-The Catholic Church in no way supports or encourages illegal immigration. Illegal immigration does not benefit the common good of our society. Because undocumented immigrants are often paid lower wages than U.S. workers, illegal immigration can drive the cost of wages down for everyone. This increases poverty among more and more people in our country....Yeah Right !
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080927/FEAT04/809270307/1023/FEAT05
I quick shout out to my friends Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and the Bush Boys...
Thank you, thank you, thank you...from the bottom of my pocket.
Tough shit.
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