Washington Post writer Nurith Celina Aizenman, yesterday, wrote an article that was supposed to make you feel bad for illegal aliens. Now, these were no ordinary illegal aliens who break our laws, take American jobs, forge or steal Social Security #s, protest in our streets, use our school and health system, then contribute little or nothing to our nation. These illegal aliens, who are being deported by the DHS, took it a step further. Many of them are gang members or they commited violent crimes. Now, it appears to be of Nurith Celina Aizenman's opinion that they are only innocent people with a dream and a criminal record. The same bull all of the time.
Everything in the article from the main body, to quotes to picture captions stink with sob story and attempts to make you feel bad for these illegals. The first smell of sob is the article's title, "A Long Flight of No Return." Ok. Right there it is wrong. It isn't "of no return", because if it was, we would only have a fraction of the problem we have. Illegal aliens come back again and again. Some have come back more than twenty times. On some of these flights the attendants actually know the illegal aliens' names.
The first line continues the perpetual stink with, " The passengers settled uncomfortably into the narrow seats". Aww. I'm sorry are the illegal alien criminals uncomfortable in a government finance 737 flight to their country of residence from a country they snuck into? Let's get this into perspective. The US finds an illegal alien, picks them up SOMETIMES, takes them onto a plane and sends them back home to try again. Let's look at Mexico. Mexico finds an illegal alien, picks them up ALL OF THE TIME, puts them in jail for YEARS, then deports them.
The next paragraph quotes her, then ends the quote with "the woman, a U.S. marshal, commanded in Spanish". Commanded? Yes Commanded. Again, putting this into perspective, if she really did command, she is a US Marshal not a teen working a summer job at the GAP. These are criminal illegal aliens, not 10 year olds at a summer camp who are going on a field trip. Then the paragraph goes on to quote her again" nd then you can go to the bathroom--
with permission ." No, that isn't me italicizing or putting dashes before with permission. That is how the article is written. News Flash: civilians are only allowed, even with the seat belt lights off, a few people up at a time, and my last flight I had to notify the flight attendant. So yes, criminals can get up to go to the bathroom WITH PERMISSION.
The next paragraph is unrelentless in Mission: Pity for Criminals. "105 men shackled at the wrists and the ankles" "peered out the thick, blurry windows for a last glimpse of Virginia" "Once, they had been hopeful newcomers to the United States. Now, they were about to leave for good on a deportation flight". Number one criminals should be shackled just as citizen criminals are, especially on flights. Number 2, unless they had visas or citizenship, they shouldn't have seen their first glimpse of Virginia. Number three, they weren't hopeful newcomers. Hopeful newcomers are new legal citizens, immigrants. These people entered illegally, used this nation, then expected to be able to stay. And Again, few leave for good. Most come back.
No, it doesn't end there. It tells the "sad" story of a 30 something year old illegal and says he "called Virginia home for 21 years." No. He called Virginia the place he had been hiding from the immigration authorities from, for 21 years. It says he was a member of the El Salvadorian army, and had been forced to torture captives, etc. Ok so, because of his nation's issues its ok for him and others to cost us hundreds of billions a year, loss of jobs, laws broken and our SSNs stolen? Here's an idea, fix your own country. We did in the US. We fought the world's strongest nation and won in the American Revolution. Don't put your troubles on us.
This is a unique line" Deportation is a fate that befalls only a fraction of illegal immigrants, though such flights may become commonplace if some of the more restrictive immigration reforms pending in Congress are adopted." This line tells people "this bill of enforcement of our laws in Congress should not be passed, only amnesty should be welcome".
Moving on, "Although U.S. authorities turn away or deport more than 1.6 million people attempting to cross the border illegally every year, once an immigrant manages to sneak into U.S. territory, the chances of getting caught are minimal". Ok, so why the hell are you complaining? "Those who are deported often come to the attention of immigration officials only because they commit a crime." And, we should feel bad for these people? "In 2004, the most recent year for which statistics are available, authorities deported only 104,000 immigrants who had been in the United States for three days or longer before they were apprehended. That's less than 1 percent of the nation's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants." Yes, you read that right, 1% and yet illegals and their buddies still complain.
The article admits one thing, "Watching over them were 16 marshals, who had reason to be wary. About 45 percent of the deportees had been convicted of violent crimes. Others had committed offenses as minor as public drunkenness. Although most were Salvadorans, there were natives of the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Guatemala, Jamaica and Honduras." Yes, that's right, violent crimes. And those are just the illegals who were caught.
"stretching a long leg into the aisle from seat 9C was Oscar Barilla, 25, whose chest and back were tattooed with the gothic letters and fearsome symbols of his gang, Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13. Barilla consented to be photographed for this article, but, like the other 15 gang members aboard". Ok, he was a MS-13 gang member along with 15 others on board, and yet I should feel bad. What planet is this author from?
The 30 something year old I told you about had been granted political assylum. However, "But he also garnered a series of convictions for drunken driving." He once broke the window of his house to get in and his wife called 911. When police got there she said that he was drunk and she thinks he was up there molesting their son. When the police got upstairs, the illegal started fighting them and wounded 2 officers.
Another illegal on the plane, who apparently just wanted a better life "went to a wedding reception and got into a drunken fight." He also said that one day he wanted to return to Guatemala when he was wealthy.
The last story was of a 22 year old illegal alien with 3 kids. No doubt the kids attended school, received medical care, their dad had a job, etc. Yet as an illegal alien without a SSN, you can't pay taxes except sales tax, which combined wouldn't get you a seat in the ER waiting room. He has the audacity to say "'I'm as American as the president. The only difference between us is that he has a piece of paper proving it. It makes me so angry." Guess what! If its so simple why not get your own piece of paper, legally! Ever think of that! The president was born an American, has a SSN, pays taxes, has a job legally, and starting in '08 will have to pay for all of his own services including his Secret Service. Did I also mention this illegal alien "was a permanent resident but lost that privilege when was convicted on drug charges and sentenced to five years in prison"? He says he plans on returning illegally to the United States.
Final Analysis, wrong article name, and this writer isn't a reporter. He may be a blogger, like me who expresses my opinion or an editorial writer but not a fair and balanced reporter. Maybe he is today's definition of a reporter. Are there really any fair and balanced ones any more?
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