Adopted or Deported

México del Norte
Jorge Mújica Murias
mexicodelnorte@yahoo.com.mx

The new deportations goal of the Barack Obama regime for this year is 500 thousand. Half-million deportations to be completed by October 31st. It would be a new World record, above last years’ 395 thousand, averaging some one-thousand 370 people a day. That is not an easy feat, because remembering another number, immigration judges have being rejecting one out of every three petitions of deportations by ICE, La Migra. That raises the stakes. If La Migra wants to deport half a million, it need to detain and start deportation proceeding to about 670 thousand people, some one thousand 835 a day.

Maybe that’s why they are taking actions like the deportation of 4-year old Emily Samantha Ruiz, a kid in route to New York to join her parents and ended up in Guatemala. It is not that the pilot got lost, but the fact is that the plane stopped over in Washington, D.C., and La Migra decided to deport them both, her and her grandfather, from Dulles Airport.

The grandfather was traveling, legally, with a working visa that allows him to do so to and from Guatemala, but given the fact that the Obama regime is on the lookout for possible Al-Qaida suspects among all immigrants it has contact with, it did Discovery that the old man was, indeed, a very dangerous person. He had an “immigration violation” dated back to 1990. The wires don’t explain which, but usually “immigration violations” are unfinished paperwork cases, not felonies.

Instead of receiving Emily Samantha, their parents received a message from La Migra asking them to make a choice: Emily could be sent to a juvenile center in wait to be placed with foster parents in Virginia, or returned to Guatemala with her deported grandfather.

Upon such choices, the couple decided she was to be sent back to Guatemala. La Migra defended the action saying that “they make the effort to reunite minor with their families, but the parents decided to that she should remain with her grandfather.”

The fact that Emily Samantha is U.S. citizen did not matter at all…

Deportation or Citizenship

The complete opposite case on everything, from age to geography and country of origin, is that of Mr. Leeland Davidson, a resident of Centralia, Washington, a 95 year old Second World War veteran who, thinking he may not have enough time to do it later, decided to visit some relatives in Canada, and to do so applied for a driver license and was rejected. Stubborn, as any 95 year-old deserves to be, Leeland asked why, and got a surprise when he was told: He is not a U.S. citizen. He is an otherwise “illegal alien,” because he also lacks a green card.

It so happens that Leeland was born in British Columbia, Canada, in 1916, and he always thought he was a citizens because his parents were from “South of the border.” But as it always happens, it so happens that his father was born in Iowa in 1878, three years before the state started keeping birth records, so there is no document to prove he is the son of a U.S. citizen who immigrated to Canada.

The only time Leeland suspected something was not right was when he applied to join the U.S. Navy during the Second World War, but he still has a letter from the then Department of Labor, Immigration and Naturalization Services, skating that he should “not worry” about his status.

When he asked for his driver license to go to Canada, Leeland was told not to pursue the matter further, because he could lose his Social Security pension, and at the Department of State offices he was told that he “Could even be deported.”

Just because Leeland is not 4 years old and his parents are not from Guatemala, he did pursue the issue and ended up at Washington’s Senator Patty Murray’s offices, who promised to “solve the problem.” Such solution, so far, has been to give him a citizenship application and tell him that the paperwork would be free of charge because he is a veteran.

To be even in both cases, Leeland should be deported to Canada or Emily Samantha should be brought back. Or, maybe, Leeland should be put up for adoption or Guatemala should deport Emily Samantha to the U.S.

Or, maybe better, the stupid and absurd immigration law should be fixed since it’s worthless, and none of the absurd two cases would be repeated over and over.