How come Students toss tantrum, demand release of detained illegal aliens claim no laws broken?
POMPANO BEACH - A Miami-Dade College student stood outside the Broward Transitional Center on North Powerline Road Monday afternoon. He has no desire to see the inside of the building. It's a detention center. They put people there until their immigration status is determined, or until they're deported. The student, Nahuel, entered the United States legally as a child, but his visa expired in 2002, and his family, he said, has waged a long and unsuccessful battle against the immigration bureaucracy to legalize their status. The rest of his family has been deported to Argentina. Nahuel, 19, who declined to give his last name, is the last one here, and that may end after his next hearing. Dozens of demonstrators organized by the Florida Immigrant Coalition protested Monday on behalf of students like Nahuel, who face deportation despite efforts to obtain college degrees and their professed desire to become U.S. citizens. "This place was set up for people who have committed no crime," said Maria Rodriguez, the coalition's executive director. "Do we want our tax dollars spent on housing and detaining people who have committed no crime?" Nahuel said he's trying to work within the law to correct his status. As the crowd around him chanted "Education, not deportation," Nahuel said he wanted to finish his education and take the oath of citizenship. "I want to make a living and contribute to society," he said. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/pompano-beach/sfl-immigration-demo-bn101909,0,2492803.story
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1 :
Hey, Nahuel. Go home and get your education there.
2 :
i believe that if you are a legal immigrant then welcome to america the land f the free and home of the brave but if your illegal then you need to go home
3 :
There is a reason their long battle against immigration bureaucracy was unsuccessful. I wonder why those reasons were not listed, why the reporter just went for the bleeding heart angle. The family is at fault for not working to fix their status BEFORE it expired. They made the mistake, not my fault and at 19 Nahuel also knew better. They believe that because they came legally they should be able to stay even through they failed to renew their status on time.
4 :
Ignorant of the law? I doubt it and ignorance of the law is no excuse anyhow. This person knew his visa expired and when it did, he became an illegal alien.No ones fault but his own. Deport. The demonstrators are being used by the F. I. Coalition, more of the brain-washed young people from our schools.
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