A family is exiled from the U.S.

San Antonio Express ^ | August 14, 2011 | Lynn Brezosky

[moonshinner_09]

REYNOSA, Mexico — Tom and Yedid Kobylecky now wish they'd stayed silent, quietly living a middle-class life in the suburbs of Chicago and keeping her illegal immigrant status a family secret.

But Yedid's parents in Cuernavaca, Mexico, were struggling to keep a taqueria stand going despite her diabetic father's sore-ridden feet and her mother's failing legs. As entrepreneurs, neither qualified for any government medical care. Yedid wired money from cleaning and baby-sitting jobs to help them buy medicines, but longed to be able to travel to see them.

And so, four years after meeting at the Home Depot where he worked, three years after marrying, a year after their son Teddy was born, they decided to petition for her visa.

“We just wanted to be an honest family, and I didn't like staying in the shadows,” Tom said. Yedid was not only denied, but slapped with a 10-year ban on applying after admitting she'd stayed in the United States more than a year after crossing illegally — in her case twice.

“Now she's considered a felon because she crossed the border twice,” Tom said. “She's put next to human smugglers and drug traffickers and all that good stuff. ... We thought the government was, you know, sympathetic toward families.”

[moonshinner_09]

In order to stay together, the family moved to Reynosa, across the border from the Rio Grande Valley, allowing him to work in the U.S. and commute each night to see his family in Mexico Seems to me other than having to make some personal sacfrices for things you do for love, he married her for better or worse along with, you've got my troubles, I got mine.

[FlingWingFlyer]

"We thought the government was, you know, sympathetic toward families.”

Well, the government sure as hell isn't sympathetic towards, you know, taxpayers.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Laws should only apply to natural-born American citizens.

All other US residents should be exempt from any and all laws.

[texas booster]

I am not sure if we could apply the immigration rules any worse that our federal government does now.

A legit family with a legit marriage is booted out, while thousands of convenience marriages get full rights, a fast track to citizenship and benefits.

It is almost as though our leaders want to punish those who play by the rules ...

[hocndoc]

It’s hard. But the law must be enforced. Change the law if it’s too draconian.

I can’t help but wonder why is the US dumping cases but going after this family? Because they’re from Chicago and not Texas?

[w1andsodidwe]

I fail to see what the US government did wrong in this situation and I rarely say that about the Us government these days.

[Oiao]

‘Cry me a river, the size of the Rio Grande!’

Sucks to be breakin’ ta law, don’t it!

[DJ MacWoW]

They broke the law. Did they expect to have a party thrown in their honor? Emotion has nothing to do with it but they’ll try and use it. They KNEW what they were doing was illegal.

[paul51]

sorry. no sympathy for illegal aliens.

[grandpa jones]

from the article..."“If she'd spoken to an attorney and said, ‘I'm going to go and come back,' the attorney would have said ‘Noooo!'” immigration attorney Laurel Scott said. Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/A-familyis-exiledfrom-the-U-S-1974919.php#ixzz1V1AW96gR

I thought an attorney was an officer of the court. But here we have immigration attorney Laurel Scott advising the client to break the law. This chaps my azz.

[Mathews]

How can you believe they were playing by the rules when she knowingly crossed my boarder illegally... Twice and he knowingly protected her by staying in the shadows? Rules is rules and she broke one. Now her family has to reap what she has sown. I wish them good luck, but this is a good call IMHO.

[rockrr]

Seems to me that this holds the potential to be a “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste” moment for the pubbies to exploit.

Nah - that might hurt someone’s feeeeeeeelings.

[RWGinger]

So these illegals think they deserve special treatment because there is a family?
if that becomes so then how could we ever sentnence anyone to prison and cold heartedly braek up a family?

good riddance
stay the hell out of here

[Mr. K]

I SMELL BS~!!!!!!!!!!!

I personally know several couples who got married after the wife was here illegally and they had no trouble adjusting her status

Especially with an anchor baby

[Gena Bukin]

It’s hard. But the law must be enforced. Change the law if it’s too draconian.

That's precisely the response these "heartstring" stories want to elicit. It seems that the problem isn't that the law isn't being enforced but rather that it is being enforced selectively. There are plenty of accounts of people like this family who got caught up in the immigration net while trying to do the right thing while Pedro and his nine DUIs and MS-13 affiliations can't seem to get deported. I have no doubt that this is deliberate.

I do fault the father for not brushing up on immigration law prior to getting married. He would've learned that the best thing to do would've been to quietly return to Mexico, get married there, return alone to the U.S. and apply for a spousal visa. Simple, a little time consuming, a little expensive but his family be in the situation they're in now.

[Clock King]

But Yedid's parents in Cuernavaca, Mexico, were struggling to keep a taqueria stand going despite her diabetic father's sore-ridden feet and her mother's failing legs. As entrepreneurs, neither qualified for any government medical care.

The problem is Mexico's socialism. Not the US's immigration law, which is one of the most lax in the world. This meme needs to pushed.

[presently no screen name]

allowing him to work in the U.S.

He's better off than most - he's got a job. Probably one of those jobs Americans don't want to do.

[Crucial]

You can’t be exiled from a country when you don’t belong.

[Cheetahcat]

Is this satire??? Stay Out and do not come back,EVER!!

[ViLaLuz]

“You can’t be exiled from a country when you don’t belong.”

DING DING DING we have a winner!