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Vic Smith wrote:
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:56:58 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Mar 18, 1:33 pm, thunder wrote:
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:26:21 -0400, HK wrote:
That's what my grandparents did when they got here.
Somewhere in the lineage, that's true for most of us.
My niece married a Mexican-American guy. This guy was born in Mexico
but his parents brought him here illegally when he was 6, of course
his parents are still illegals. So, for the wedding, they rented a
beach house and we had a great N. Florida redneck Mexican Jewish Irish
Catholic party. The Mexicans party better than the rest of us.
However, although these people are seriously hard workers and he has a
real job, suddenly the INS came after him. In spite of legal help,
they have given him 30 days to get back to Mexico with no answer to if
he can come back. This couple has been married a year and he's a
great guy. It aint fair.

Following the law isn't rocket science. Some say we need laws.
I'm married to a Polish immigrant, and have been involved in legally
bringing in family member immigrants.
They got in line. Usually took 2 years. Could have come on a visa
and then stayed as illegals. We always rejected that path.
In fact, it was never considered.
A Polish guy a block away from me was here illegally for about 10
years. He was a hard-working, energetic entrepreneur, building houses
using mostly other Polish illegals as labor. He did a terrific job
building the house a block away from me. It's a McMansion type house.
Looks real good. He lived in it less than a year, then got in a fight
with his wife. She ratted him out to the INS and he was deported.
House has been sitting empty over a year now.
My daughter is dating a legal Polish immigrant (American citizen now)
who is an electrical contractor. He's been in tears a few times
because he doesn't have enough work for illegal Polish buddies, and
they have to pack up their families and return to Poland.
Dreams shattered.
My wife is a cook in a corporate setting and most of the staff is
Mexican illegals. Mostly good people, and hard workers.
When you think about it, most of the illegals come here to work.
The energetic people. Layabouts don't bother.
But there are energetic criminal elements too.
It's really a tough problem.
My feeling is the law should be followed with no exceptions.
Sounds hard-hearted, especially in the instance you mentioned.
Brought here as a 6-year-old!
Actually, I would make an exception of him and deport his parents,
who I assume were adults when they broke the law.
He can do the paperwork to bring them back in a couple years.
Legally.
Just my view.

--Vic

ps Mexican and Polish weddings are best. But Irish is good if you
like to fight.

I've never been to a Mexican wedding, but I'd sure go if invited. I
agree with the comment about Polish weddings - great fun. Never
understood the "Polish jokes," since all the Poles I have ever met were
smart and hard-working.

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The morality police - the bloviating gas bags of the religious right -
have fallen lower than the stock market. It has truly been an amazing
(and amusing) thing to watch these so-called "spokesmen of Christ"
defending their morally indefensible positions these days. Finally -
they're going away. It seems an answer to a prayer. Thank you, Lord.