Posted on 11/26/2012 8:17:07 PM PST by moonshinner_09
Cananea, Mexico (CNN) -- In a remote town in northern Mexico, a 10-year-old-boy is struggling with his homework. His name is Oscar Castellanos, and the fifth-grader is getting extra help from his father because he's having trouble adjusting to his new school.
The student enrolled at Leona Vicario Elementary in the town of Cananea is technically a foreigner in his father's land. Oscar was born in Arizona and is a U.S. citizen. He recites the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance by memory without hesitation. His English accent is that of a boy raised in the American Southwest.
Oscar's family moved back to Mexico after the state of Arizona approved some of the toughest immigration laws in the United States. Now they live in Cananea, a mining town of 30,000, about 35 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
If you break the law of the land you should be prosecuted. Is that persecution?
Real Anti-Immigrant Bigotry—The real racists are not the Gringos, hombre
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21973
As far as the kind of treatment illegal immigrants from Mexico deserve, let’s treat them as Mexico treats all immigrants. According to the Center for Security Policy’s J. Michael Waller, “Mexico deals harshly not only with illegal immigrants. It treats even legal immigrants, naturalized citizens and foreign investors in ways that would, by the standards of those who carp about U.S. immigration policy, have to be called ‘racist’ and ‘xenophobic.’
“If you think these critics are mad about U.S. immigration policy now, imagine how upset they would be if we adopted an approach far more radical than the bill they rail against which was adopted last year by the House of Representatives - namely, the way Mexico treats illegal aliens.”
For example, according to an official translation published by the Organization of American States, the Mexican constitution includes the following restrictions:
Pursuant to Article 33, “Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.”
Equal employment rights are denied to immigrants, even legal ones. Article 32: “Mexicans shall have priority over foreigners under equality of circumstances for all classes of concessions and for all employment, positions, or commissions of the Government in which the status of citizenship is not indispensable.”
Jobs for which Mexican citizenship is considered “indispensable” include, pursuant to Article 32, bans on foreigners, immigrants, and even naturalized citizens of Mexico serving as military officers, Mexican-flagged ship and airline crew, and chiefs of seaports and airports.
Article 55 denies immigrants the right to become federal lawmakers. A Mexican congressman or senator must be “a Mexican citizen by birth.”
Article 91 further stipulates that immigrants may never aspire to become cabinet officers as they are required to be Mexican by birth. Article 95 says the same about Supreme Court justices.
In accordance with Article 130, immigrants - even legal ones - may not become members of the clergy, either.
Article 27 states, “Only Mexicans by birth or naturalization and Mexican companies have the right to acquire ownership of lands, waters, and their appurtenances, or to obtain concessions for the exploitation of mines or of waters.”
Article 11 guarantees federal protection against “undesirable aliens resident in the country.” What is more, private individuals are authorized to make citizen’s arrests.
Article 16 states, “In cases of flagrante delicto, any person may arrest the offender and his accomplices, turning them over without delay to the nearest authorities.”
According to Article 33, “the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action.”
I read that in 2005 Mexico deported over 240,000 illegal immigrants. I wonder how many we deported?
Bank robbers feel persecuted.....
Only in the US does that technicality apply.
In his home country, he has his father's citizenship. Different laws. CNN dances around that. I'm shocked...
/johnny
Self deportation - It works!
Do PR firms get these kinds of stories on the air? Who pays the PR firms? The “immigrant” rights groups? Federal agencies? Who? I wonder.
There are legal ways to get to America and legal ways to get citizenship... do one of those
He can come back when he grows up1. He has nobody to blame for this temporary problem but his parents who didn't care enough to stop for a moment and think about his status.
The MSM is quite happy to run these stories without prompting.
Hasta luego !
That’s a good thing.
BTW, I rarely see proper footnotes on FR. Hat tip, and a free beer if you ever actually meet me.
/johnny
Did CNN even run a criminal background check on the parents?
Warms my heart to read stuff like this.
I call bravo sierra.
Let them go home. We didn’t invite them. We will not miss them, help pay their way out of the country...
Let them go home. We didn’t invite them. We will not miss them, help pay their way out of the country...
Grande Tango Sierra! Hasta luego, Pancho!
(2) Stay home and fix your failed homeland...
--AND--
(3) Next time you visit the USA...
...Please use the front door....
muchos gracias...
************
We need to hit the liberals repeatedly over the head in the tune of “ We should be as enlightened as the Mexican Government and use their immigration laws!”
Start a damn ad campaign and when the libs realize it would be worse than what we had BEFORE the 1960’s immigration reform, THEN we call ALL the libs racists for opposing us!
My, oh my! Pass the tissues!!!!!!!!
CNN’s assumptions never begin at the beginning. The beginning starts at criminal entry, illegal residency, and no effort toward legal citizenship.
To go only 35 miles south of the border is a more fearsome location, given the cartel activitie, than getting on Obama’s list of citizenship passes for those with no criminal record.
In 2020 I’m sure that the Chinese warlord who runs things in that region ( thanks to the left ) will be way more tolerant than we were. /sarcasm
My heart bleeds. /sarc
Illegals out! Or learn what real persecution is.
It sounds as though the Mexican Nationals don’t like our laws and want Barry Benghazi to “reform” them to make it easier for them to invade and overrun America. I don’t think we’re in America anymore, Toto.
I don't care why they're leaving, just leave. Saves us the trouble and expense of hunting them down and deporting them. If you're here legally, welcome. If you're here illegally, you're a criminal, we're coming for you to prosecute you. That's not persecution. This has nothing to do with race, religion etc. It is all about legal status - they are breaking the law. Period.
Romney was Right: self emigration works!
Exactly!
The child is blameless but, after reading the article, I feel like the parents can go to hell.
I’m sure they will feel much safer in Mexico. What could possibly happen to them there?
We need another Operation Wetback. It worked pretty well the first time.
Call the wambulance, wah, wah, take the libtards with you!
Every day has its little ray of sunshine.
“The MSM is quite happy to run these stories without prompting.”
Of course; they need to lull Americans into complacency as their country is stolen from them. If there was anything to this story Obama wouldn’t have won re-election; the fact is that the Bronze Horde is here to stay, and for every one that goes back 1,000 more arrive (or are born in this country as anchor babies).
Anchor Baby = Leech
Another article written in fantasy land by the slave to the state media.
Every ILLEGAL CRIMINAL should be deported and told to go to the back of the line for a LEGAL immigration process - just like the millions who came to America LEGALLY.
The ILLEGAL CRIMINALS are not special and do not merit special considerations - they’re just criminals!
Criminality should NOT be rewarded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
America was founded as a nation of laws - deal with it, ILLEGALS and self-deport!
As long as they voted first.
Good news for once.
I agree. Please see my tag line.
I know a woman who has been working in this country since 2000 on a green card.
She has followed the rules - she has paid taxes.
She even has given birth to a us citizen.
She works hard and is a source of pride to her employer.
She has just been denied citizenship and is now wondering what her next step will be.
Factors working against her....she is white and comes from a n eastern european country.
So here we have a person trying her best to satisfy the “path to citizenship” - while millions of latinos waltz in to the US feeling entitled to our taxpayer funded benefits without paying into the system themselves.
My crying towel is soaking wet.
Also, it says they left everything behind. And they had a three bedroom home. So they got a home loan for illegals! Then, sounds like they got foreclosed on. I can’t believe they walked away without selling a house in which the SHOULD have had equity.
PING
If she was denied citizenship then shes not entitled to a green card...
one status leads to another..
only real immigrants qualified to be citizens get green cards...
if she did something to disqualify her from citizenship AFTER getting a green card she would be deported...
are you sure she doesnt just have a working visa ???
Of course, this one was bought and paid for by the Obama PR firm CNN.
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