On today's issue of "Ass-Hat's On Parade"

[jjmaccrimmon]

US Immigration deporting wives of US Servicemen – yes, it’s possible.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/03/military.deportation/index.htm

There’s a quote by an immigration enforcement advocate that’s completely out of control:

”That's just fine, according to Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which lobbies for tougher laws on illegal immigration.
"What you're talking about is amnesty for illegal immigrants who have a relative in the armed forces, and that's just outrageous," he said. "What we're talking about here is letting lawbreakers get away with their actions just because they have a relative in the military. ... There's no justification for that kind of policy."


This is where I get sick to my stomach. This ass-hat is talking about the wives (with US born children) of US Military personnel deployed overseas. Unfricken-believeable!

Comments

[patgund.livejournal.com]

And if these people have their way, the children would, more than likely, not have citizenship as well. They just see them as another "anchor baby", nevermind one parent is serving in the US military.....

What makes this asshat even more of an ass? The wife in question would have been legalized if she hadn't gotten married. Wow. So much for the family values crowd....

[jj-maccrimmon.livejournal.com]

The representative from the organization in question getting reamed? Not likely.. It's recognized by most non-partisan politcial observers as a right leaning, conservative "think tank." In fact following the defeat of the immigration reform bill, Mr Krikorian wrote this bit of vitirol: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18120

He seems to forget that most of us our immigrants or descended from immigrants.

[thegreatdoogie.livejournal.com]

I'm curious how this guy was able to successfully marry an illegal immigrant on an Army base to begin with...doesn't the Army frown upon things like that?

[jj-maccrimmon.livejournal.com]

She wasn't illegal to begin with. The young woman was here via legal refuge status. They legally married and because she married, the refuge status granted to her as a youth lapsed. That point makes not a lick of sense to me.

Were she someone who waded across the Rio Grande or walked across the deesrt to come here illegally, I'm sure I might take a harasher view, but our immigration laws are so hopelessly screwed up that the formerly legal wife of a legal US solider serving in combat for this country can concieveably be deported. I did a Google search on related news articles and there's dozens of these cases. WTF has our country come to?

[thegreatdoogie.livejournal.com]

ahh...when your link didn't work, I just searched for military deportation, and found this - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/20/national/main2956093.shtml Assumed that was the article you were talking about, and the one my comment applies to.

[jj-maccrimmon.livejournal.com]

There's so many stories about this situation, but I can certainly understand the confusion. CNN screwed with the links when the article started getting an insane number of hits. It's sad though that our 'Compasionate Conservative" Administration, they don't weem to remember the big picture. One member of the family is away fighting a war on behalf of the nation. In some cases those very servicemen and women enlisted in order to get their Green Cards. Seems ironic doesn't it?

[landverhuizer.livejournal.com]

Yikes... unbelievable!
Think they would have better people to go chasing about, guess these ones were easy target

(still trying to get the link to work tho)

[jj-maccrimmon.livejournal.com]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/03/military.deportation/index.html

"JACKSONVILLE, Florida (CNN) -- Eduardo Gonzalez, a petty officer second class with the U.S. Navy, is about to be deployed overseas for a third time. Making his deployment even tougher is the fact his wife may not be around when he comes back. "

Use that to search if the link doesn't work.