Families struggle as deportations rise -- Deportation

"The right to family unity should be a basic right taken into account before deporting someone," said Alison Parker, deputy director of the U.S. program for Human Rights

Well put, so send the families with them

"Most of all, she is angry that a government could separate her from the man she loves".

It is our government's job to protect the law abiding citizens of the U.S. against people that chose to break the law. This lady knowingly married and had kids with someone that is in this country illegally and now is upset? Does she not understand the concept of breaking the law? I'm upset that people like her contribute to the problem of illegal immigration rather than doing their part to fix it. I agree with rdw, you can go too!

It is tough! I really feel for the lady but, she is well educated and should know that marrying someone in the country illegally cou8ld have the consequences that finally did occur. I am for family preservation and do hope that this man can somehow he can re-enter the country legally but, illegal immigration is a huge problem here and for every case like this, there are a hundred which give legititmate cause for depoting with ni ties like this.

Grow up. Your problems aren't going to be solved by deporting all illegals.

Easy. Go home, and take your kids with you. No more problems! You're welcome, no charge for that answer!

How many of us think about the people who are doing the right thing? Many people are now illegal because the immigration process is so expensive and long. We are not fixing anything by separating families we are creating more issues.
We need to find a middle ground.

Here's a thought--if you dont like the laws here in the USA, go live in Mexico, or what ever foreign country your spouse is from. We are not asking you to stay here!!

I do not feel sorry for any of these people. The showed no respect for our laws when they came here illegally or overstayed their visa. If the family left behind does not like the laws we have, they are more than welcome to move to another country and see how well they are treated there. Our laws are not splitting up families, illegals are choosing to do this to themselves.

Chester DeGrasse wrote:

Grow up. Your problems aren't going to be solved by deporting all illegals.

Maybe, but it would be a GREAT START!!!!!

When someone maried an illegal or even someone here on a temp work visa, it is a calculated risk that this could happen. If you are not willing to take the risk then do not enter into a relationship with a person here illegally or on a temp work visa.

As I always tell my clients when faced with a tough decision: the heart may be telling you one thing but you cannot ignore your brain.

Hope this analogy makes sense.

Kid needs money for school. He is a good kids, superb grades but frustrated he cannot qualify for financial aid because he has a job but his job does not pay enough for college. So he gets involved in an illegal activity. He uses the money to pay for college. He gets arrested. Should he face the music? Yes. He had a need (paying for college), he never took part in what he was doing as a user/clieint, he just "managed his own business." The money was only used for college.

When these people marry someone not here legally or would have to become illegal in order to remain here, it is a calculated risk that they may have to pay that piper.

I am sick of the "I am a victim!" No one forced them to enter into these relationships.

A friend of mine spent about a year and a half separated from his wife so he could bring her here LEGALLY.

Chester DeGrasse wrote:

Grow up. Your problems aren't going to be solved by deporting all illegals.

While I can have empathy for these people, that doesn't make their actions any less illegal. If you want to be here, do it the right way.

And deporting all 850,000 illegals won't solve all my problems but it sure would go a long was towards solving many of the state of Florida's problems.

Deport them all! I followed the rules to get here, so why can't they? All of us immigrants who were allowed to move here did so because of the PRIVILEDGE extended to us by Americans. We had no RIGHT to move here.

Marrying and having children does not change the fact that they broke and continue to break the law. That makes them criminals.

No sympathy, hats off to the FEDS. Round em all up and kick them out ASAP. Lesson #1 follow the laws homies.go back and apply the right way if you want to be here.

Yes I agree with the earlier poster please take the kids with you. Im tired of paying for their education and medical expenses. Adios amigos!

Foreign nationals know before they enter the USA illegally that they are breaking the law if they do so, and if they get caught they get deported. All the whining about being deported is ridiculous, you knew when you came here illegally you were going to be deported, so be a man and go home to your own country, you should have had the decency to immigrate legally, and stay in your own country until you were passed, approved, and notified that you may enter.
Same goes for those who knowingly violate the terms of their visa. They knew they would be deported and they did it anyway.

They have no respect for the law. If they violate Immigration laws, they will violate any laws.

Having children if you are in the USA illegally is not going to keep you here. A lot of illegal aliens use anchor babies to try to stay here, or to hold up in front of Immigration authorities to try to evade deportation. How disgusting is that!
People who make kids to use in that way are disgusting.
They should have used birth control if they are here illegally.

A lot of illegal aliens leave spouses and children behind in their own countries before they come here. Then they come here illegally and make another family, thinking it will protect them from deportation. They have no "family values". That is not moral, not ethical, not honest, not decent.

It's so easy - if you don't want to be deported don't come into the USA illegally, and don't overstay a visa. If you are deported - just leave - you got caught red handed, you knew it was coming, you broke the law.

Do the right thing, immigrate legally or stay out.
If you are here illegally, leave before you get deported. If you leave now, you can apply to immigrate legally once you are back in your own country. If you get deported you will not be able to immigrate legally so easy, because you will have a record in the USA, and will fail the criminal background check. The US does not allow criminals to legally immigrate here.

Chester DeGrasse wrote:

Grow up. Your problems aren't going to be solved by deporting all illegals.

Let's see...."Degrasse"... a French admiral in 18th Century.

Did your grandpa come here illegally, or legally Ches?... n'est-ce pas?

It didn't give the age of the first man, but the woman was not very young. In the second case the woman was nearly middle aged and the husband quite young. The women may have been in love and entered into marriage for that reason, but I'll bet you a dollar to a doughnut the men married thinking it would insure citizenship. I was single and lived in Germany, was frequently offered considerable amounts of money to marry non-Americans so they could enter the US without waiting and so citizenship would be accelerated. I did not do so. Never even dated them or explored the possibility.

Locally (central PA) we had a married couple, she American, he Greek who own a restaurant in a small town. He went through the paperwork drill, paid someone (not a government official) to handle the piles of paperwork, reportedly believed that the red tape was going slowly but going well, until the day they knocked on his door, took him to a local prison for a couple of months prior to shipping him back to Greece where he remains some 6 years later. So, for those who think the US is out looking for hispanics only to boot out of the country, this simply is NOT so.... the key word is ILLEGAL. I believe anyone who is here illegally should be forced to leave and I feel no pity for them regardless of whether they have a wife/husband or children. They KNEW what their status was even if others did not. The citizens of the US should not have to make life easy for them when they are having it tough enough themselves. Central PA has been going to various businesses and arresting large groups (usually of men) at one time and deporting them. Fypon was one such company that employed illegals, however, there are many including the numerous orchards in Adams County, PA and some of the 'forests' where hundreds of thousands of Christmas trees are grown (requiring laborers who trim them into those perfect shapes we all love).

Being from Colombia she probably thought he was a big drug king pin and she was going to be able to live in a lavish style... Lobster and cracked crab, champagne, rumba til dawn...

I would rather see a story on families being torn apart becasue dad had to go to prison for robbing banks and the problems it caused for them. Amounts to the same thing. Chances are, if he is clean, he can come back legally. But as most have said, go with him. Let me break it down for the bleeding hearts. He works in Orlando and got married. His job has now been moved to Spokane. Does she complain or just move with him.

Out of all the illegals, how long did it take the Sentinel to go find this rare story. Hey, I wonder why they do not go out to where a bunch of illegals live and investigate the many crimes they commit while here. How about the fact that 1/3 of CA prison populace are illegals and the gang problems. Does this represent most of the illegals here, NO. But it is bigger thah this ladies problem. Yes, I know. The Sentinel does not support enforcing the law.

see you later aligator

Any one who enters illegal should be sent back to their wonderful country they left or for breaking the laws serve time for the crime. Better yet.... take the illegals given them a gun and send them to the front line in Irac for 2-3 terms, if they survive then they can come back but have to live the laws of AMERICA not their country. They need to learn to read, write and understand english. If all of the imigrants were sent back (850,000)then Americans would have jobs to support their families.