This involves the deportation of LEGAL immigrants, but ones convicted of crimes, with right to jury trials, attorneys and the whole nine yards. Moreover, one was convicted 'a dozen times' of drug charges, the other of drunk driving and later possession of cocaine w/ intent to sell, etc. They claim inability to argue they have family in the US to an immigration judge is a 'violation of international human rights'.
I'm not buying it...
What do you think?
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/264949.html
2007-10-09 05:53:02 · 14 answers · asked by DAR 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Well, it's nice to see that some of the 'international community' don't think we are violating 'international human rights' all that much.
Dave, if people are being kicked out for shoplifting, why aren't these cases to the international court fronted by shoplifters? It seems to me that would be a more sympathetic case, and the facts of these cases suggest to me they are the best facts that could be found.
2007-10-09 06:04:46 · update #1
I thought long time ago , we decided what is a major crime and a minor crime. The Major crimes were called felonies and minor crimes were called misdeamenor. If we are only deporting aggravated felonies, then why are people discussing about minor crimes being a reason for deportation????
I have no sympathy for them.
2007-10-09 14:34:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think if you're not a U.S. citizen, you're a guest of our country. If you don't act in a manner befitting a guest, our country should have the right to throw you out.
We have enough home-grown citizen criminals without importing them from other nations.
''Families have been torn apart because of a single, even minor, misstep such as shoplifting or drug possession," said one person in the article.
Sorry, those aren't missteps. They're crimes!
If you're going to do the crime, pay the piper. In this case, it's a one-way trip back home.
If that breaks up a family, I have no sympathy. The offender should have thought of that before breaking the law.
2007-10-09 13:01:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps, sympathy is the only card they have left to play.
Their families have a choice. They could join them.
An American dealing drugs, convicted and sent to prison gets no sympathy from me. Their actions separated them from their families, not the courts. There is no difference here.
Legal immigrants are aware of the stipulations of residency.
Violations such as these are grounds for deportation. End of story.
2007-10-09 13:40:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
When you immigrate to a country legally you are accepting its laws, language, and culture as your own. You enter a de facto contract to become a part of that country. When you break its laws you have broken that contract and they have a right to throw you out of the country!
You have thrown your Rights away! The citizen's of that country rights become paramount to your human rights.
Illegal aliens in a country who break the laws should just be shot and killed as a sanitation measure. We would have less dead cops that way.
2007-10-09 13:54:32 · answer #4 · answered by Coasty 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Unbelievable, while not the same, it falls under the category of the rapist who sues for parental rights. I thought the rights of the US citizen meant the US citizen. If not, let's just let anyone and everyone in, no questions asked. Extenuating circumstances or not, I don't think it should come into play--after all, I could jerk at your heart strings with any ole story.
2007-10-09 13:01:37 · answer #5 · answered by Smooch The Pooch 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I'm in the UK, but I'm gobsmacked that these people even have the remotest chance of appeal. As soon as someone commits a crime they should relinquish all claims to human rights, for they don't deserve them. I thought it was just this country that was run by lunatics.
2007-10-09 12:58:35 · answer #6 · answered by ♥ Divine ♥ 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
They see the more developed countries such as the US and UK as a place they can go, get a house for free, and live off the workers in that country ! Something should be done, and soon !
2007-10-09 13:25:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think that as soon as a person commits a crime, they have forfeited certain rights. It is a conscious choice they have made, and need to suffer the consequences for their chosen actions.
2007-10-09 13:19:34 · answer #8 · answered by steddy voter 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
That is ridiculous. They certainly do not deserve to be called an American Citizen and need to stay where they have been sent.
Truly, they do not love this country.
2007-10-09 13:10:29 · answer #9 · answered by Sweetharttt 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't even matter. If you are not a citizen and you break our laws then OUT YOU GO! If they want to stay so badly then offer them a nice lengthy prison sentence.
2007-10-09 12:57:30 · answer #10 · answered by blueman 5 · 7⤊ 0⤋