Dear Balding: No need to be so disagreeable. And no, I'm not out of my mind. I'm just telling you how to accomplish getting these people deported if that is your goal. High profile politicking is OK in its place, but there are ways to get things done, and ways to make other people dig in their heels. Tancredo, bless his heart, wanted to make a political point (with which I happen to agree). Reality dose: If you are a U.S. Congressman and you or one of your staff members calls the INS and recommends that an illegal alien be deported, they will be deported. No one would have been surprised, given that the illegals in question had spilled their guts all over the paper. But if you are a U.S. Congressman and call the newspaper first, you needlessly humiliate the INS office in Denver (which is already humiliated by the pinche idiotas ilegales and hampered by a headquarters in DC less than committed to deporting illegals); the potential deportee will have every immigration lawyer on the books voluteering to represent him, keeping him here indefinitely while he goes to college for free; the civil rights pimps will get involved, delaying the deportation further while the bleeding hearts do their thing. Guess who loses.
Sorry, didn't mean to sound disagreeable, even though I strongly disagree with you.
The Denver Post decided to make this a high profile case, to advance the Post's cause.
God bless Tancredo for his willingness to rush to the playing field the Post decided to argue this case on. That's a KEY POINT. The Post was the one who set the rules. Only Tancredo was willing to take the war (yes, this is a war against a foreign invasion of our country) to them.
It's the subject of local talk radio, as it should be. The Post is trying to cover their collective backsides, as it should be. And people are having to face this problem, now made very public, as it should be.
Will the family be thrown out of the country? In the big scheme of things it doesn't matter, EXCEPT that it would set a precedent: Beak immagration law, pay the price. SOmething that hasn't happend for years.