Should this mother be deported?

[LightHeart]

On one hand I say yes, she is here illegally and has been arrested twice and deported atleast once. On the other hand I can't help but worry for her son.

CHICAGO - The 7-year-old son of an immigration activist who took refuge in a church to avoid being deported is heading to Mexico on Sunday to seek the support of national legislators.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061112/ap_on_re_us/immigration_activist_deportation

[NicoMoon]

On one hand I say yes, she is here illegally and has been arrested twice and deported atleast once. On the other hand I can't help but worry for her son.

Yes, she's here illegally, and it is she and no one else who chose to use her son as a political ping pong ball.

If she wanted to stay here in the US in the interest of her son, all she had to do is the same thing all the millions of other illegals do, just continue to defy our laws and stay.

This woman is allowing herself and her son to be used for a far larger purpose than a mother's concern for a child.

I don't support that cause or the strategies being used to promote it, so I'm all in favor of this woman going back to Mexico. It isn't as though she's going to be tortured and her son left to starve on the streets, for crying out loud. You know she'll just cross the border again and again like they all do, anyway.

She has contempt for our laws, I have contempt for her cause.

This is another one of those emotional manipulation strategies that Ann Coulter wrote about. On this, I agree with her. We have to stop caving into people's outrageous demands and causes simply because we feel sorry for what they've suffered.

Whew! I guess that one hit a nerve! :disbelief

[LightHeart]

I knew I could count on you to be the voice of reason. It pisses me off that this child is being used the way he is. And I agree they are being used for a far larger purpose than a mother's concern for a child.

And if they allow this woman to stay then whats happens with all the others? You can't make an exception just because she had a child on US soil. Which is another thing that gets my goat, I don't agree that a child of an illegal is automatically legal because they were born here.

[NicoMoon]

And if they allow this woman to stay then whats happens with all the others? You can't make an exception just because she had a child on US soil.

Right, that's the name of the game. If we put the face of a poor caring mother on illegal immigration, then they all get to stay here, keep spawning, invite all their relations, and we the taxpayers get the big bang for our buck of feeling like saviors.

Which is another thing that gets my goat, I don't agree that a child of an illegal is automatically legal because they were born here.

No, it makes no sense under the circumstances, and IF our legistlators were actually working in the interest of We the People, that regulation would have been changed a long time ago.

I sincerely hope that this country unites around this immigration issue, and that it serves to alert our elected officials that we expect them to act in OUR best interest, not Ronald McDonald's, or the Bleeding Heart Idiots Brigade's.

It will be kinder and gentler all around for us to sort out this mess and allow a controlled flow of reasonable numbers of DOCUMENTED workers into this country. Anarchy never has proved itself to be a good idea, and that is what anyone is proposing when they suggest "amnesty" or "open borders".

[tater03]

I would have to agree with you all. What this mother is doing is using her child as a pawn. She knew when she came here that this could happen and she chose to come anyway. But you're right she will just come back anyway. They need to do something about these laws. I am for people coming here but not illegally.

[lcsamano]

i can't believe that this mother is using her child basically as a shield per say. If she hadn't gotten arrested she might still be able to be here and have a better life for her and her son. However, she choice to break the law and now she has to go back. Like someone else said if you give into her than how many others will break the law and not get deported. As well then all their relatives and friends will be here and we will be paying for them to be here. If immigrants want to come here then they should do it legally.

[palefrost]

Yes, she's here illegally, and it is she and no one else who chose to use her son as a political ping pong ball.

If she wanted to stay here in the US in the interest of her son, all she had to do is the same thing all the millions of other illegals do, just continue to defy our laws and stay.

This woman is allowing herself and her son to be used for a far larger purpose than a mother's concern for a child.

I don't support that cause or the strategies being used to promote it, so I'm all in favor of this woman going back to Mexico. It isn't as though she's going to be tortured and her son left to starve on the streets, for crying out loud. You know she'll just cross the border again and again like they all do, anyway.

She has contempt for our laws, I have contempt for her cause.

This is another one of those emotional manipulation strategies that Ann Coulter wrote about. On this, I agree with her. We have to stop caving into people's outrageous demands and causes simply because we feel sorry for what they've suffered.

Whew! I guess that one hit a nerve! :disbelief

Totally agree with you. I hate how the media is playing it up. Its not like its a slow news day. After seeing the stuff going on in Iraq you would think they would have enought to report on then this junk.

[Melos]

I'm right there with all of you.

Just another example: There was a news story from a crying, pregnant girlfriend of an illegal immigrant who was deported recently. In 1996 he was arrested for some minor crime and faced deportation at that time, then he did not show up for the court hearing, rather disappearing with his girlfriend. Now, ten years later, they claim they had no clue he could be deported.

They have her on camera rubbing her belly and crying about our poor child. It was so orchestrated for maximum "oh poor people" reaction. All I could think of was, "Why didn't you just take care of everything when you had the chance?"

[ButtrflyDreams]

I have to say that I don't agree with anyone who goes to another country to live illegaly. If you want to live in that country, do it right. Get a visa, & then become a citizen of that country. That's my thoughts.