Posted on 09/25/2002 8:31:56 AM PDT by chance33_98
Students Spared Deportation 09/24/2002
By Mas / azfamily.com staff
Four Mexican national students who were detained in July while on a school trip to Niagara Falls, N.Y., will not be deported.
In fact, the students, who attend Wilson Charter School, won't be going anywhere for a while.
The students got into trouble when they went on a school trip to upstate New York and crossed over into Canada. When they tried to come back across the border, it was discovered they never entered the United States legally and faced possible deportation to Mexico.
On Tuesday, an immigration judge granted the students an extension until November 2003 before their next court appearance.
But time may be on their side. Congress is considering a bill called the Dream Act that would give permanent residency to students who have been in the United States for a number of years and have graduated from an American high school.
This is terrible. It rewards illegal immigration and would only encourage more.
The students should be deported.
The students should be held in detention until their next court appearance. Illegal immigrants should not be released into society.
I'd like that.
But lemme ask you this; How would it matter, given that we can't control our OWN borders?
Apparently, we are led by a group of people who are willfully neglecting to do just that.
Above the issue of controlling borders, political science teaches us that the other great test of statehood is whether the authorities manage to collect tax.
And we all know how good they are at that, now don't we? Indeed, we do. They do that very well. There, we see strong political will.
I'm not personally hostile to Mexicans. I happen to agree with them more than with my average own countryman when it comes to issues like family, homosexuality, and the death penalty. And we do need some of them here, right?
But even though I've never been accused of being a pacifist, I'm afraid that I just cannot be asked to whip myself into a frenzy, and climb down from my combine, take up a rifle and go kill arab folks when I see this kind of flamboyant lack of political will.
This is an eggregious case, yes, but it's just two young men.
THOUSAND OF THEM POUR ACROSS THE BORDER EVERY NIGHT.
I have a friend who lives in Southern Cakifornia. About ten years ago he hired a pretty young woman who was an illegal immigrant from El Salvador. She traveled to the U.S. to escape political persecution and was on a "death list" in her own country. She cames over at age 16 so those in power were seeking political revenge against her family.
To make a long story short, she was an ideal housekeeper and the perfect employee. She graduated from high school here in the U.S. with 4.0 average, and then went to college and graduated with a perfect 4.0 gpa again.
She saved her money and brought other relatives over. Their children are also doing well in school. She now works for a major Hollywood studio executive and make big bucks and is just as charming as she was when I first met her. She has been granted amnesty.
She is like a second daughter to my friend. He beems proudly whenever he stands with her socially.
She would make a perfect poster child for this program and should be applauded by all. She traveled long miles, by foot and through "terrific hardship." She is the perfect example of a "self-made woman" and a good example of the type of person we ought to reward with this program.
Every year thousands of foreign officials come to Tokyo to learn about all the little engineering dynamics of waste disposal. Now, don't get me wrong -- the Japanese have done very well at that, as they should, and as they really do need to.
But they've ignored something else that the Japanese could teach them: HOW TO SOLVE AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION PROBLEM.
When I first got to living in Japan, I noticed that seemingly every popular street corner that I went to meet friends, nearby there was an inevitable cluth of Iranians selling counterfeit phone cards (for the uninitiated, those are cards that enable you to make phone calls from public phones without the need to carry around a lot of change). They would stare, and leer, and jabber away in their very different-sounding language.
On and on they came. There were scads of them. Huge crowds of dangerous, quite obviously middle eastern men with no obviously legitimate way of earning a living. They were all over the place. If you'd go to Yoyogi Park in Harajuku on the weekend, you'd have thought you were in a Kazbah, and not in the middle of Asia.
Zip, zip, zip --that was the sound they'd prominently make, raking the stacks of counterfeit cars past their fingertips, like a flashy Las Vegas casino dealer. It was marketing. At other times, they would loudly call out what they were selling.
And it wasn't just cards. It was coccaine they were selling, and other drugs, too, as well, many times. They were doing all kinds of things in law-abiding, mostly mono-racial Japan that would earn them a death sentence in their own country.
I can remember the case of one Iranian fellow who raped 5 Japanese girls in his appartment, one right after another. They thought they would be killed if they didn't cooperate.
But years later, poof -- they're gone.
There's all kinds of freeps who will say, "Well, gaijin, that's cuz the Japanese bubble burst, and when the getting wasn't as good, they just went home."
But our bubble goes poof and they STAYED.
Why?
How did they solve their foreigner problem?
Nobody's asking a great question, and the Japanese probably don't want to get asked that.
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