Posted on 08/14/2011 8:42:43 AM PDT by 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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at mysanantonio.com ...
As a native Texan, I have NO sympathy for ANY illegal alien in the US. Period. Deport them all, no matter where they originally came from. My immigration stance is simple ... If you are here illegally, you need to go back to where you came from and apply for legal status or the Feds need to deport you.
Immigration isn’t hard. Not when you consider the law.
Excuse me while I go poke myself in the eye so I can shed a tear over this. I have an idea- as an experiment, try this with New Zealand and let me know how that works out.
It’s good these criminal are back where they belong. We have enough criminals without importing more.
Hearts and Flowers
played on
World’s Tiniest Violin.
Etc.
It’s either a made up story or they are going public to get the government to shower them with all the goodies.
Go home where you belong.
None.
It's amazing how many "industrious," "hard-working," "family oriented" people with everyone in the family handicapped, can expend tons of energy and work on anything and everything --- except expending the effort to become legal.
Good riddance!
She broke into our country twice and now expects us to be sympathetic to her cause. I’m sorry but once you do that we might as well rescind all of our immigration laws and apologize to the untold millions who waited and did it the right way for the last two-three hundred years. Sorry sweetheart I cannot sympathize with you as you chose to do it all wrong, we do not tolerate line cutters.
Ain't that the ever lovin truth!
Wallace: "Mr. Cain, you said in the past that you would enforce the immigration laws that are on the books; yet, here we have a family, Tom and Yedid Kobylecky, who tried to do the right thing, and got Mrs. Kobylecky deported. What is your answer to this family, sir?"
Ping!
I think the issue is they did not play by the rules, they came here illegally, violated several immigration laws and then wanted to play by the rules.
(Is it public education or author desperately seeking a more emotional story line and has no scruples per 'words and their meaning. Or what?)
That noise you hear from Phoenix is the sound of my heart breaking.
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