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Title: Sending woman 'home' to Mexico truly un-American
Source: AZ Central
URL Source: http://www.azcentral.com/news/columns/articles/0709roberts09.html
Published: Jul 9, 2005
Author: Laurie Roberts
Post Date: 2005-07-09 15:25:06 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
Ping List: *The Border*
Keywords: un-American, Sending, home
Views: 118
Comments: 5

Sending woman 'home' to Mexico truly un-American

Jul. 9, 2005 12:00 AM

Her favorite food is pancakes with strawberries and cream, which explains her favorite restaurant: IHOP. Her favorite TV show is Friends. She loves the movie Titanic for the romance, and for reasons I can't quite figure out, she, at 20 years old, loves the Beatles.

She is what you might call the all-American girl. In every way but one, that is.

By month's end, Yuliana Huicochea will likely be ordered to leave the only country she's ever known, exiled to a place she's never been. At least, not since she was a baby.

Yuliana is worried and understandably so.

"I don't have anywhere to go," she told me. "I don't know any other country. I've always lived here since I was 4 years old. I consider this my country. I consider myself an American."

So why, you might wonder, is Yuliana being given the bum's rush across the border? What offense has she given, what crimes did she commit that this country will be a stronger, safer place once she has left it?

She had the audacity at 4 years old to enter this country illegally.

Yuliana grew up in Phoenix. She's never been in trouble. She learned the Pledge of Allegiance in kindergarten, got good grades in school and even graduated a year early from Wilson Charter High School so she could pursue her dream of one day becoming a lawyer. She might never have drawn the attention of the Department of Homeland Security but for the fact that she exhibited a bit too much ingenuity and good old-fashioned American can-do spirit. In 2002, she was part of a team at Wilson that spent nine months designing and building a solar-powered boat. So good was their work that they were invited to an international competition in upstate New York.

Yuliana and three others on the team caught the eye of immigration authorities when their teacher took them to Niagara Falls on the U.S.-Canadian border.

Like Yuliana, Jaime Damian, Luis Nava and Oscar Corona were babies when they were brought here illegally from Mexico. And like her, they face the very real prospect of being sent to a country they don't know when they go before U.S. Immigration Judge John Richardson on July 21.

Richardson has twice put off deporting the four, in hopes that Congress might pass a law allowing them to stay. But that hasn't happened.

The four, and others like them, are caught center stage in a national uproar over illegal immigration where it seems any more that there is black and there is white and nothing in between. Either you are here legally or you are not.

Unfortunately, like our immigration laws, that sort of thinking doesn't work. Sending Yuliana to Mexico would be like sending you or me to a foreign country.

Like it or not and through no fault of her own, Yuliana is an American. Blame the parents who brought her here. Blame a corrupt country that encourages its citizens to flee north. Blame U.S. politicians who have long looked the other way and businesses that crave cheap labor.

Blame them all and certainly, fix our broken border. But it strikes me as decidedly un-American to punish Yuliana for a crime she didn't commit.

Like it or not, we've got a generation of children who have grown up American, hundreds of thousands who were brought here as babies and now they're stuck in a no man's land between a country they don't know and a country that doesn't want them.

And so, in a few weeks, Yuliana must go, proving that there is law and there is justice. And sometimes the one has nothing to do with the other.


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I hope she is furious with her criminal parents for involving her in their criminal activity, leading to this painful outcome.

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#1. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#0)

She's more of an American than those traitors in DC who refuse to close the borders.

What a freaking mess.

Lod  posted on  2005-07-09   15:35:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#0)

More illegal immigrant sob stories.

With what I see happening to Americans and American families, I could care less if Yuliana, Luis, Jaime and Oscar have to suck dicks for rent money in Guadaljara.

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Dude Lebowski  posted on  2005-07-09   16:14:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: lodwick, Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#1)

I agree with Lodwick. This woman shouldn't be sent to Mexico. There are tons of people who don't have legal paperwork and yet have grown up in america or spent 20 years here and have roots. These people should not be sent elsewhere. They should be made legal.

We should throw the politicians out of office who fail to stop new people from comning. Those who have roots here we should welcome. it is not their fault that we failed to keep them out. Now they are part of our community, too late to reject them.

Red Jones  posted on  2005-07-09   18:26:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Red Jones (#3)

We should do both. Not only that, but we should charge those who we deport for every single social service welfare program that they've taken advantage of while they were here. The fact that they managed to get away with their crime for a long time does not mean we should allow them to continue to break the law.

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
~~Blaise Pascal (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist, 1623-1662)

Mr Nuke Buzzcut  posted on  2005-07-09   21:22:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Red Jones, Nuke, all (#3)

Thanks, Red.

These kids are NOT the problem - the problem is in DC, and all other areas of enforcement who choose to ignore the problem, except selectively.

Sorry, sorry, bastards.

Lod  posted on  2005-07-09   22:42:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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