Elvira tried this through her son and lost, but this suit goes farther, asking for a freeze on deportations 'until comprehensive immigration reform is passed'.
What do you think?
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/15679891.htm?source=rss&channel=miamiherald_news
"The lawsuit, filed by a coalition of local immigrant advocacy groups, argues that the constitutional rights of those young citizens are being violated by their families' precarious status, and that deportations of the parents of U.S. citizen children should stop until Congress passes comprehensive immigration reform.
''When the government deports the parents, they tell the citizen children that they can go back with their parents, or stay and be wards of the state, and that's not a choice,'' said Alfonso Oviedo, president of American Fraternity, also known as the Nicaraguan Fraternity. ``They are being treated as garbage, not as U.S. citizens.''
2006-10-04 14:59:41 · 12 answers · asked by DAR 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Honduran Unity and the Peruvian-American Coalition joined with Oviedo's group in the lawsuit, which was filed against the U.S. government in the federal courthouse in downtown Miami.
Oviedo and the other lawyers involved based the lawsuit on a legal doctrine called ''laches,'' which prohibits parties who take too long to assert a right from doing so later.
The lawsuit's premise is that the U.S. government did not enforce its own immigration laws, allowing millions of undocumented immigrants to live and work here for many years, eventually forming families that include children who are American citizens. The government has since lost its right to deport those parents because it failed to do so for so long, and now the rights of the U.S.-born children trump the long-unenforced laws that would break up their families, according to the lawsuit.
2006-10-04 15:01:05 · update #1
'The government is coming to these kids and saying, `Now we arbitrarily changed our mind and we are going to kick you out,' '' said Donald Schlemmer, a Washington, D.C., lawyer who helped file the lawsuit. ``We're saying you can't do that.''
What do you think?
2006-10-04 15:02:23 · update #2
(I think it was Sheriff Joe Arpaio who said "There are times when you just have to drop the bomb and live in the ashes". It's time the government ended this ridiculous stand-off!)
2006-10-04 15:07:07 · answer #1 · answered by Zoe 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Deport all anchor babies with their illegal alien parents.
Illegal aliens have only two rights in this nation:
1) the right to be arrested for violation of United States federal immigration laws.
2) the right to be deported to their own country.
Illegal alien women come here pregnant just to make an anchor baby.
Its time to interpret the law the way it was written, children of illegal aliens were never meant to be automatic U.S. citizens when born on U.S. soil.
It's just a scam, more thievery by illegal aliens.
2006-10-04 22:43:13 · answer #2 · answered by shoshone 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I say that if you are illegally in this country you have no rights. Illegal pregnant women are crossing the borders daily in hopes of having children in this country and thus claiming citizenship for their children. If the case arises that you are discovered illegally in this country, you and any children, rather born here or brought here with you, should be deported right along with you. Rights of this country are to be earned and not given freely to those who break the rules. You break the rules, your child suffers the consequences.
2006-10-04 22:16:28 · answer #3 · answered by Ichiban 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
More reason to send the illegals packing.
More bleeding heart tree hugging rhetoric. I say We the People don't split them up. The child is the Parents responsibility. Send the kid with them.
Alfred is right on!
2006-10-04 22:05:53 · answer #4 · answered by devildriver_667 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To long to read but a good post
2006-10-04 22:02:27 · answer #5 · answered by angels_among_us 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The answer is simple: send them all back. If they want to return, let them do so legally. Look at me. Do I look legal or not?
What part of "illegal" and "criminal" do these people not understand?
2006-10-04 22:04:54 · answer #6 · answered by Kokopelli 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, and the most interesting part of this is the "trump premise."
2006-10-04 22:07:25 · answer #7 · answered by LaContessa 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There was already someone else asking the same question. Look for it :)
2006-10-04 22:17:26 · answer #8 · answered by maryjane green 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
time for massive deportation
2006-10-05 08:46:52 · answer #9 · answered by Debra R 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do you know Juanito?
2006-10-04 22:48:06 · answer #10 · answered by J D 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋