Last December, Mayra Machado was pulled over for a routine traffic stop in Arkansas. Turns out she had an unpaid ticket for failing to yield. And as a teen, she’d spent four months in boot camp for writing bad checks. Now 31, the single mother of three, who is an undocumented immigrant, faces imminent deportation to El Salvador, the battle-scarred country she fled when she was 5 years old.
Sylvester Owino, 40, said he survived torture in Kenya as a young activist and came to the U.S. on a student visa, which ran out. A 2003 robbery conviction in San Diego resulted in a nine-year stint in a detention facility. Now, he is part of a U.S. Supreme Court case that will determine whether immigrant detainees have a right to a bond hearing.
The two situations illustrate the variety of crimes that can get immigrants detained and deported, even after they have served a jail or prison sentence for the crime — and even if they are in the country legally. And while the federal government says it targets noncitizens who are serious or repeat offenders, immigrants with minor offenses often are deported.
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10 comments:
any & all of them??? (I hope)
Pay your tickets, don't write bad checks, don't commit robbery, no problem. If you do, suffer the consequences.
How about when you cross the border illegally for starters
All involving foreigners should be.
Every other country can simply refuse to take refugees in the first place.
Illegal covers it all!
Any crime.
How about you come here illegally and are a clean nice person? Haven't you already committed a crime according to the laws of this great nation? Doesn't this make you eligible for deportation? I am not the one to judge you or to judge anyone, but it is my opinion there should be not one single illegal roosting in this great nation, not alone millions. You have already broke our law so you are not a citizen with the rights of a trail. Chunk the illegal out before he or she builds a resume of more crimes. They have already shown no regard for our law. Take them to borders edge and let them find a way to return to the place whence they came. Stop coming here gaining unearned benefits causing my taxes to increase. I for one cannot afford you. I am a working man, not a f'n' leach.
Do the crime, go home and do the time!!!!! Not in my country!
Being here illegally is a crime. So what more does the court system need to know to enforce the laws of America? They need to go back even if they were born here from illegal parents. Non Americans in America cannot have a child become a citizen of America just for being born here. The child has to be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States as it says in the 1st Amendment. Which they are not if their parents are foreigners and or illegal in here in America.
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