Open-borders insanity of the day
“Please, please arrest me,” says an illegal alien who has been here 17 years and wanted to submit herself to federal custody to get on the road to citizenship. Yes, really.
Uncle Sam’s answer: Um, no.
Yes, really.
A Schuyler woman who has lived in the United States for 17 years and tried to get arrested in hopes of getting on the road to American citizenship said immigration agents wouldn’t take her in.
Jazmin Marino’s attorney, Bassel El-Kasaby of Omaha, said he felt that given her background, she had to get creative in order to get on track to naturalization. He said once Marino is arrested and on record, the process of citizenship can begin. After the attempt was unsuccessful, he’s announced plans to file a lawsuit.
Marino moved with her family from Mexico when she was just 5 years old. She said their problems started when they tried to begin the naturalization process.
“My parents got their work permits taken away,” she said. “My dad got deported.”
She said the problem was the result of botched paperwork filed by a lawyer who has since been disbarred. After graduating from high school in Schuyler, learning English as a first language and raising a child, her road to naturalization was closed.
“It’s really hard for the family to keep going on,” Marino said.
She turned to El-Kasaby, an Omaha attorney specializing in immigration. He said he felt Marino had only one possibility left.
“In years past, people would turn themselves in to immigration and immigration would process them,” El-Kasaby said.
The two went to Omaha’s federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office to have agents arrest Marino. El-Kasaby said he had even contacted an agent about it in advance.
“I told them that, ‘I’m here. So is my client. She’s undocumented. We’re both in the building. She would like to turn herself in,’” he said.
The agents refused to arrest her.
Who needs amnesty when de facto amnesty already rules the day?
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…because they were busy uh, doing, hmm, what do immigration agents do?
Wait, what? Doesnt her anchor-baby cement her here in the US anyway?
Now now–The Amnesty Twins McCain/Graham–might get upset at the use of “illegal”, “anchor baby” and “protecting our borders”. We wouldn’t want to upset the Amnesty Twins would we?
You would? Never mind.
Americans can thank their ‘Guest worker’ POTUS who prosecuted border patrol agents, granting immunity to his drug-dealing amigo.
And Americans re-elected this Saudi puppet.. ooppss sorry… this is about open-borders so…. Americans re-elected this Vicente-Fox puppet. Same voters then rejected pariot Tom Tancredo for Juan ‘Hernandez’ McCain and got Barak ‘Driver’s license for illegals’ Obama, whose own aunt is in this country illegaly, living off of same voters who rejected Tom Tancredo.
So, a thank-you card to Barry would be in order.
If ICE really wanted to find and deport illegal aliens, they could walk into the U of Neb Med Center in Omaha and arrest a few hundred every day of the week. What has always amazed me is our gubmint doesn’t care that this woman went to our schools on the taxpayer dime, has a child and uses our medical systems on our dime, and our Congress is arguing about curbing medical costs, and finding jobs jobs jobs.
in Omaha mind you. Life’s tough in a border town donchaknow.
Fast forward to 2014 and you walk into your US.Health.Care facility. Hey doc I’m in the building and I need a splint on my broken arm.
The doctor refused to treat you…
May God help us…
Somehow, I got a feeling USA isn’t going to stay USA for long.. right after:
- Bush spat on Americans on 9/17: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlFUewQ3SKU
- Bush covered up for his ‘family & friends’ from Riyadh.
- Americans re-elected Bush.
- GOP pitched Juan ‘Hernandez’ McCain.
- Americans rejected patriot Tom Tancredo.
- Americans elected Barry ‘God D**n America’ Obama.
Wasn’t the writing on the wall?
As I noted, if Ms. Marino simply returned to her home country, she could visit the US Consulate or Embassy and they would be happy to start the process of coming to America legally.
No law suit is required. They want to file suit since she was not arrested, offering the ability to “start the process.”
One less voter for the Democratic party.
The largest employer of illegals here is the State of Texas. TxDOT subcontracts Knife River (formerly know as Young Brothers) and they in turn hire illegals. Everybody knows this including Gov. “Dream Act” Perry.
By the way, Michelle, Fox News should air on Friday night a report on the Border Patrol and their use of mounted patrols on horseback. I hear they got some cool video of a takedown.
Really.
Specifics and a timeline.
if the agents are unwilling or incapable of doing their “sworn” duty, fire em!
Rules and laws should be followed. Period.
The woman should have been arrested. This is just silly.
The primary responsibility of the U.S. government is to protect the territorial integrity and people of this country. They have completely abdicated this responsibility. Both parties have been complicit in this. We are being told it is not possible to control our borders, enforce our laws, and thereby control our destiny as a nation. Hogwash. We are being sold out by corporations intent on importing workers for jobs that can’t be exported with the taxpayers paying the true costs, financial and human. If we act like sheep and don’t stop the inundation across our borders, we will lose our country without a bleat.
ICE and illegals have moved to freebasing Cocoa Puffs. What other explanation is there?
We the People of the United States of America have the right to have our borders and our laws respected and enforced.
Citizens of other countries illegally in our country have no right to demand anything from our government. They most certainly have the right to petition the governments of their home countries for change if they are unhappy with their home country. If they want to be Americans, we have a path to citizenship, more generous than any other nation, and it starts in their home country.
We need to insist on the equal protection, application and enforcement of the law or devolve into anarchy. Our Republic only functions if everyone follows the same rules. We should not change the laws to accomodate those breaking them.
If America annouces to the world “We can’t stop you, so come on in” with another amnesty, the deluge will be overwhelming. If 3,000 a day didn’t get your attention, then wait until it’s 10,000 a day. We cannot sustain this influx and survive as a nation. We must speak up and speak to each other about this and not let false claims of racism or bigotry be used to intimidate us into silent assent. America is not Congress’ to give away. America belongs to We the People. Speak to your neighbors, speak to your coworkers, but please speak up to your Congressmen and Senators. It’s O.K. for us to enforce our laws, no really, it is.
Someone please tell Sen. McCain.
They want to, believe me, they WANT to arrest but are not allowed by policy AND law. Take it up with DHS, not the Agents.
So if you confess to a North Korean immigration officer, you will be arrested and probably only be seen again when the U.S. gov’t pays Lil Kim a bribe to let you go. If you confess to a U.S. immigration officer, you get told to go back to your house in America and have a nice life.
I wonder why we have a bigger illegal immigration problem than Norko does. Boggles the mind.
After 7 years of our attempts to get my wife a green card, they finally gave us a hearing, last Thursday. With our lawyer in tow, and all the paperwork that they requested, we did well. Uh, except for one thing. They decided they want to see her old passport from back in the early 90s. Of course, it’s unavailable. More delay. Why is it people like the lady above get all sorts of benes and people trying honestly to be residents are stone-walled?
It’s just a matter of perception.
Speed 10 mph over the limit in a red Porsche, and get a ticket.
Speed 20 mph over the limit in a grey LTD, and no one notices.
ICE would have to get approval to arrest from Janet Napolitano first. Good luck with that.
Remember the raid in Washington state at an engine shop? The illegals got green cards and the employer got a fine.
She can move in next to Obamas’s Aunt.
Sue Mexico, and secure the southern border yesterday!
For anyone that believes anchor-babies are citizens, please read this article from the Hillsdale College newletter, Imprimus.
Here’s an excerpt:
The following statement can be found in American Jurisprudence:
The intent of the legislature constitutes the law.
Since the intent of the 14th Amendment was to not give citizenship to children of illegal aliens, anchor-babies are unconstitutional.
He already knows and wants it to be 15-20,000 a day.
What’s worse? Open borders and de facto amnesty, or border security and de jure amnesty?
Conservatives have no room to complain about open borders, when they had all the leverage in the world four years ago to get real border security, if they would compromise with Democrats and moderal Republicans and allow amnesty for illegals in the country already. Instead, they said it’s my way or the highway, they got nothing, and we still have, as MM put it, de facto amnesty.
I appreciate your work MM, but I want you to be prepared when it does happen. The next thing on the docket will be amnesty for illegals. They want R’s to be angry at R’s who vote for it. . . but they know they can get something to pass. That helps them with their base even though MOST Americans don’t like it.
It’s just next in the playbook. I can’t imagine what else they might try. They see amnesty as a slam dunk bipartisan issue.
Not bashing you, just trying to prepare you for the inevitable.
We said the same thing about socialized medicine and yet liberals kept whining about it and here we are all over again.
*She just needs a pimp; May I suggest John McCain, the head advocacy pimp for illegal alien amnesty now that Teddy is roasting on the spit.
I was watching “Shadow Wolves,” an ongoing documentary about Native American reservation police looking for drug dealers “on the res” on the television the other night. One of the officers trying to cut off a drug dealer trying to avoid other officers in the desert came upon a group of IBC’s (illegal border crossers). He called the Border Patrol to come pick them up and was told they’d be there in 20 minutes. Almost two hours later a couple of pickup trucks showed up with three or four agents who said they would transport the IBC’s but that the officer would have to process them. When the agents asked if he’d searched them, he almost exploded, “No! I was kind of outnumbered 19 to 1! I was hoping you’d help with that!” He never did get back to try to find the drug runner that night.
Your government at work.
ECS
Why should we reward
peoplecriminals for breaking our laws by giving them amnesty and a free ride? Does that make sense to you?ECS
Does anyone believe that if amnesty had been passed the border would have been secured? Particularly after we were promised the same thing after the 1986 “one time only, never to be repeated” amnesty. It did not happen then, and it hasn’t happened now. If the government wanted to, they could secure the border now, without amnesty.
Refusing to protect the country until the citizens accept the abandonment of the rule of law is despicable, as is everyone who supports blackmailing the citzenry in that manner.
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along with winning the so called ‘war on drugs’, if they wanted to.
ooops..
Just check out the dialysis center in Las Vegas – $2,000,000 per month for one procedure in one hospital for illegal aliens.
Pretty soon, that adds up to real money.
There is no doubt that the government could secure the border within a few weeks if they decided to do so. The simple fact is that the central government has made no effort to do so over the last 30 years.
The truth is that if the governors of Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California decided to do so, they too could shut down illegal crossings to a trickle by using a few National Guard units and building some rather simple barriers in the right places.
While not all of our National Guard units are fit for combat in Central Asia, they are more than adequate to secure the most frequently used paths across the border. Make it 10 times harder to cross the border and a large percentage of people will stop trying.
They aren’t doing it because they don’t choose to do it.
Let me get this straight her lawyer is going to file a lawsuit because the authorities won’t arrest his client….hmmmm there must be something to that Mayan Calender end of days scenario.
Immigration Officials in Omaha, sitting in the office waiting for their retirement benefits. This is why so many government workers use the phrase….
It’s good enough for government work.
Now if we could just get members of Congress to sit quietly in their offices and NOT DO ANYTHING we could save TRILLIONS EVERY BLOODY YEAR!!!
“I was watching ‘Shadow Wolves,’ an ongoing documentary about Native American reservation police looking for drug dealers ‘on the res’ on the television the other night.”
I saw that too. My son, a Border Patrol Agent in the area, encounters them all the time. From my son, and other sources, I find that these “wolves” are more like sheep and rarely ever get out in the brush and chase bad guys — see how out of shape they were. . .you can’t be that bad a shape and run about the desert. besides, the corrupt BIA is many times in league with the smugglers.
“One of the officers trying to cut off a drug dealer trying to avoid other officers in the desert came upon a group of IBC’s (illegal border crossers). He called the Border Patrol to come pick them up and was told they’d be there in 20 minutes. Almost two hours later a couple of pickup trucks showed up with three or four agents who said they would transport the IBC’s but that the officer would have to process them.”
Correct, few agents cover a huge border, and those agents are very busy. The Border Patrol Agents came when they could. They have their own illegals and drug smugglers they are after.
“When the agents asked if he’d searched them, he almost exploded, ‘No! I was kind of outnumbered 19 to 1! I was hoping you’d help with that!’”
What a crock. Cowardly “wolf.” The Border Patrol Agents take down numbers like that, and more, and are outnumbered even worse, and THEY detain and search by themselves all the time. The “wolf” was stupid to allow a group to just sit there, possibly armed, and exposing himself to danger the whole time. Idiots wolf.
“He never did get back to try to find the drug runner that night.”
Mustn’t do any of that real work.
“Your government at work.”
That’s the indian’s at non-work. The Border Patrol works 24/7/365.
Which conservatives are you referring to? There weren’t but a handful of conservatives in office four years ago. If you’re referring to RINOs, then I agree with you.
I think since she has been here since she was 5 years old and should know English fairly well if not mastered it. If she really would want an opportinity to become a real citizen of this country I would support her enlistment in the armed forces of the US of A. If not get in line at the US embassy in Mexico baby.
So….if you want to come here illegally, no problemo, step right in…..but if you want to become a citizen, well then, we need to make it as difficult as possible for you! Common sense at its finest.
Visit NumbersUSA (HERE), and express your immigration views. Faxes to your congressional representatives and the Obama administration are at no charge. Keep the heat on them.
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/inside/3596/facts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Wolves
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/wolves.html
Do a little research before you chime in, sparky.
ECS