GOOD QUESTION - WHAT ABOUT THE KIDS?
While Congress debates about the fate of 12 million unauthorized immigrants, it is important to keep in mind that they have more than 5 million children. Two-thirds of these children are U.S.-born citizens, a share that increases to 93 percent among those under age 6. If unauthorized parents are forced to leave the country, they will have to make a difficult choice: whether to leave their children behind or take them to another country. To learn more, there is a new fact sheet from the Urban Institute.
posted by Andres Oppenheimer at 5:40 PM
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Well if the children were to go back with the parents they would certainly have the right to return to the US as adults or teens. Then it might be easier to get their parents a visa to come the the US permanently. I have a friend (his parents are Cuban but were living in Venezuela) who was born in Miami. He returned to Venezuela before he was a month old. His parents wanted to ensure his citizenship. They later moved to the states when he was in elementary school.
Subject: Bush and "Illegals"
Your analysis of our approach to illegal immigrants has so many flaws I can't cover
them all. To highlight, when someone breaks the law they are actiing illegaly. This
is simple english. To try and subvert that meaning only angers those whose language
is english first.
Mexico is and has been corrupt for so long it doesn't matter who runs the country. My
father built the first soft drink factory after WW II in Mexico city. The local businessmen
stole the business under mexican law.
I used to fly with the "flying doctors". They donate their time to help the poor, in case you
didn't know. When we left, one time, the ususal corrupt official put a 50 cent a mile tax
on the airplanes. The doctors vowed never to go back.
They have stolen so much in American deposits thru devaluation and other corrution it is no longer
worth mentioning. Property ownership rights are subject to interpretation that leave foreigners
holding an empty bag.
Other foreigners who have attempted to build businesses find themselves in the position of having
to leave the country for their families safety or live in compounds with 24 hour private security
guards. Kidnapping has become the leading domestic mexican business.
The rulers of mexico are the most corrupt, pathetic, dishonorable individuals to ever inhabit the
earth. It matters not who rules. They will continue to steal from whomever they are able to,
their own people or a new generation of stupid foreign investors.
All in all the cry should be "piss on the mexicans and the mules they rode in on" I trust this
is clear enough even for you.
Jim Reid
San Diego
Jim my man!
You really went overboard here.
You would need to have a brain the size of a peanut to believe that all the people from a country are thugs and corrupted. There is good and bad people everywhere and us, Americans, are no exception.
First, for those that suffer from a problem with reading comprhension, I never said all of the people in Mexico were crooked. I said the leaders were and I challenge anyone to name a leader that isn't
I notice my experiences have not been challenged. Here are a couple more that come from San Diego. First, the Tijuana police
are famous for extracting bribes from innocent Americans. I have had friends pulled over and threatened until they paid.
My favorite personal adventure. This goes back to my trips (plural) with the flying doctors.
I would handle the land arrangements and pay the bills. When checking out of a hotel I gave the clerk several hundred dollars in 20 dollar bills. He started counting 20,40,60, then
put a twenty in his pocket and continues 80, 100, etc. When finished he informed me I was $20 short. Now I faced a dilema. I could have confronted and challenged but who would be a gringo in the middle of nowhere. I
coughed up another 20.
I guess the San Diego resident doesn't read the local paper. A whole tract of waterfront Baja homes were confiscated by new land owners. It is no uncommon for courts to negate deeds and revert land to earlier owners. Kind of like the Indians in the U.S.
The currency manipulations and devaluations have happened often over the past 30 or 40 years. It is well documented.
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