Posted on 07/18/2006 7:37:16 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Better yet, what kind of parents leave their children in Costa Rica while they move to the US? Don't most parents make sacrifices FOR their children instead of making the children their sacrifices?
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No way!
"Down the road I bet we'll find out she wasn't legal."
I think you are correct. She was here for five years and just married a year and half ago. Her children would have been in their teens when she left. If she had legally applied for citizenship in order to come to America, why would she not have also applied for citizenship for her children?
“We will certainly do everything in our power to honor her wish to bring her children to the United States,” said Sandra Salstrom, spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Martin Meehan (D-Lowell). “Milena Del Valle’s family has suffered a tremendous loss, and every consideration should be given to aid her children in immigrating here to be with her husband.”
Immigration advocates said Del Valle’s separation from her children, whom she solely supported while they remained in Costa Rica, typified the need for immigration reform.
“The tragedy of Melina’s death isn’t just the tragic failure of the highway system,” said Ali Noorani, executive director of the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition. “The fact that she was never able to reunite her family was a tragedy of our immigration system.”
This doesn't even get the needle on my give-a-good-G#d-D#mn meter to move. Sorry she got killed, sorry she had kids, and more sorry that she chose to break the law by coming here.
This is all the fault of Cheney and Rove, and the other wascally Wepublicans.
Costa Rica is actually quite affluent, peaceful & pleasant for Central America. Many Americans go there to retire. I'd rather live in San Jose (Costa Rica) than LA, Detroit, Newark, New Orleans, or lots of other US cities.
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