Immigration wars
The current immigration war in the USA is taking a new twist, as the story of Zoila Meyer shows. She's to be deported because she voted and got elected while not being a citizen, which she claimed that she didn't know she wasn't. Maybe so, because she's been here since she was one year old.
The funny thing is that convicted felons from the Latin Kings, La Mara Salvatrucha, and all sort of people with criminal pasts which include drug trafficking, illegal aliens trafficking, killing, gang activity, drunken driving, etc, have a lot of support by the legal eagles of the left, who fight for them to avoid deportation so we can keep a nice "ethnic" criminal class in this country, as if the native born were not enough.
So, what the deal with with Mrs. Meyer?
She's Cuban.
Therefore, she must be deported.
Don't we have the dry foot wet foot in place?
Isn't that a creation of the same lefty lofty politicians the liberals adore?
"LOS ANGELES (June 24) - All of her life, Zoila Meyer believed she was an American. She even won election to the City Council of Adelanto.
Zoila Meyer is to appear before an immigration judge July 18. Although she is from Cuba, she may be deported to Canada, the last point of entry into the U.S. to appear on her immigration record.
But now she is facing a threat of deportation for illegally voting, because she never became a citizen after being brought to this country from Cuba when she was 1 year old.
"To be honest with you, I'm scared. How can they just pluck me out of my family, my kids?" the 40-year-old mother of four said in a telephone interview Friday.
"If they can do this to me, they can do it to anybody," she said.
After Meyer was elected to the council in Adelanto in 2004, someone told officials that she was born in Cuba, prompting an investigation.
Eventually, "the police came to me and said, 'Zoila, you're not a citizen. You're a legal resident but you're not a citizen,"' said Meyer, who now lives in the San Bernardino County desert town of Apple Valley, near Adelanto.
She resigned after 10 weeks in office in Adelanto, a town of about 23,000.
Meyer, whose story was first reported in the Victorville Daily Press, applied to become a naturalized citizen and continued with her life: raising her children and attending two local colleges to earn degrees toward her goal of working in the justice system as a forensic nurse.
However, because she was not a citizen, Meyer faced a felony charge of illegally voting in the 2004 election.
In April 2006, she pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of fraudulent voting and was placed on probation, fined and ordered to pay restitution.
What Meyer didn't realize is that fraudulently voting is a deportable offense.
On June 18, Meyer said, immigration officials showed up at her home and told her to appear at their San Bernardino office.
Her husband drove her to the office on Tuesday, "and they handcuffed me," Meyer said. "They put me in jail and they frisked me and processed me."
"I said 'You're doing this because I voted?"'
The case is unusual but immigration officials were just doing their job when they arrested Meyer, said Lori Haley, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"People are arrested on immigration charges from all walks of life," she said. "She can plead her case before an immigration judge, if she feels that she has reason to seek release for removal. ... Everybody has due process when they're arrested."
Meyer was released pending a July 18 appearance before an immigration judge who will determine whether she will be deported to Canada, the last point of entry into the U.S. recorded in her immigration record.
Meyer said she and her parents had visited Canada and she had gone many times to Mexico without anyone ever asking her to prove her citizenship.
Meyer said she does not support illegal immigration but she thinks immigration procedures should be changed to prevent misunderstandings.
"It makes me feel like we're all just numbers," she said of her case. "I see people writing 'this is my country.' It really isn't. It belongs to the government and they decide who stays and who goes .... You think you're free; you're really not."
UPDATE:
Zoila Meyer IS an American citizen. Her parent's naturalized as American citizens before she was 18, so she is an American citizen. She might have never had an American passport, because one doesn't need one to travel to Mexico or Canada, but evidently, and as per paperwork in the hands of Immigration she is an American citizen. Why is the Cuban born head of Immigration saying? I haven't heard a peep.
Believe me, you will not see a big press storm about her case. And of course, we saw a bunch of people talking metric tons of crap about her already....
The funny thing is that convicted felons from the Latin Kings, La Mara Salvatrucha, and all sort of people with criminal pasts which include drug trafficking, illegal aliens trafficking, killing, gang activity, drunken driving, etc, have a lot of support by the legal eagles of the left, who fight for them to avoid deportation so we can keep a nice "ethnic" criminal class in this country, as if the native born were not enough.
So, what the deal with with Mrs. Meyer?
She's Cuban.
Therefore, she must be deported.
Don't we have the dry foot wet foot in place?
Isn't that a creation of the same lefty lofty politicians the liberals adore?
"LOS ANGELES (June 24) - All of her life, Zoila Meyer believed she was an American. She even won election to the City Council of Adelanto.
Zoila Meyer is to appear before an immigration judge July 18. Although she is from Cuba, she may be deported to Canada, the last point of entry into the U.S. to appear on her immigration record.
But now she is facing a threat of deportation for illegally voting, because she never became a citizen after being brought to this country from Cuba when she was 1 year old.
"To be honest with you, I'm scared. How can they just pluck me out of my family, my kids?" the 40-year-old mother of four said in a telephone interview Friday.
"If they can do this to me, they can do it to anybody," she said.
After Meyer was elected to the council in Adelanto in 2004, someone told officials that she was born in Cuba, prompting an investigation.
Eventually, "the police came to me and said, 'Zoila, you're not a citizen. You're a legal resident but you're not a citizen,"' said Meyer, who now lives in the San Bernardino County desert town of Apple Valley, near Adelanto.
She resigned after 10 weeks in office in Adelanto, a town of about 23,000.
Meyer, whose story was first reported in the Victorville Daily Press, applied to become a naturalized citizen and continued with her life: raising her children and attending two local colleges to earn degrees toward her goal of working in the justice system as a forensic nurse.
However, because she was not a citizen, Meyer faced a felony charge of illegally voting in the 2004 election.
In April 2006, she pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of fraudulent voting and was placed on probation, fined and ordered to pay restitution.
What Meyer didn't realize is that fraudulently voting is a deportable offense.
On June 18, Meyer said, immigration officials showed up at her home and told her to appear at their San Bernardino office.
Her husband drove her to the office on Tuesday, "and they handcuffed me," Meyer said. "They put me in jail and they frisked me and processed me."
"I said 'You're doing this because I voted?"'
The case is unusual but immigration officials were just doing their job when they arrested Meyer, said Lori Haley, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"People are arrested on immigration charges from all walks of life," she said. "She can plead her case before an immigration judge, if she feels that she has reason to seek release for removal. ... Everybody has due process when they're arrested."
Meyer was released pending a July 18 appearance before an immigration judge who will determine whether she will be deported to Canada, the last point of entry into the U.S. recorded in her immigration record.
Meyer said she and her parents had visited Canada and she had gone many times to Mexico without anyone ever asking her to prove her citizenship.
Meyer said she does not support illegal immigration but she thinks immigration procedures should be changed to prevent misunderstandings.
"It makes me feel like we're all just numbers," she said of her case. "I see people writing 'this is my country.' It really isn't. It belongs to the government and they decide who stays and who goes .... You think you're free; you're really not."
UPDATE:
Zoila Meyer IS an American citizen. Her parent's naturalized as American citizens before she was 18, so she is an American citizen. She might have never had an American passport, because one doesn't need one to travel to Mexico or Canada, but evidently, and as per paperwork in the hands of Immigration she is an American citizen. Why is the Cuban born head of Immigration saying? I haven't heard a peep.
Believe me, you will not see a big press storm about her case. And of course, we saw a bunch of people talking metric tons of crap about her already....
8 Comments:
CB,
We all know that CUBANS must be deported and WILL never get support from the so called ACTIVIST. I have a family member who faces the risk of deportation back to Cuba even though the law has been followed to a T. My family member if sent back to Cuba will be jailed or who knows what would happen, yet SILENCE from everyone. Now we all know what would happen if she were another nationality!
She didn't know she was not a citizen, or so she says.... Many times the parents don't do anything about that, and the children pay for it. We are not suggesting that anybody is above the law, just that the law should be applied NOT in the selective manner that it's being applied, if you're Cuban, well, you're fried. If you're from somewhere else, you've gonna have a slew of "pinko" activists rooting for you.
Charlie,
As I read this it comes to mind the illegal inmigrant from Mexico that killed the 2 young girls in Virginia recently and was defended by the left and specially by Geraldo Rivera on the Fox show of O'Reilly with a shouting match between the host and the guest. This guy killed 2 women and yet he was protected by the Mayor of the Twon where the accident occurred and the left media. Talk about distortion of the law. This woman votes and is handcuffed and that other guy is just facing deportation after several charges of drunk driving including one for the accident where the women were killed. And of course, he was not Cuban.
Immigration officials were just doing their job? unbelievable, yet they let 12 million illegal immigrants march in the streets of LA and other cities, why didn't they do their job then? uh? where were they then, of course if they would have all been Cuban, the buses would have been there, ready to pick them up, I'm hoping Zoila will have a just hearing, I hope they realize they made a big mistake, I'm rooting for you Zoila
Fantomas,
They commited a crime by being here illegaly. As for Zoila Meyer, let her stay. Even if she didn't have citizenship, she's Cuban and wet-foot dry-foot applies. With regards to Cubans being here illegally, I don't think such a thing exists. Under the screwed up law, once they touch US soil, they're good to go. If they get stopped by the Coast Guard though...
Fantomas,
you are truly amazing! Your reasoning defies all possible logic. You ask: did those 12 millions commit any crime? You of all people who continuosly post that the law is the law and has to be obeyed, etc, etc, do not consider that entering illegally any country is not breaking the law? What the hell do you call it then? A visit? If those demonstrators Vana spoke about were here illegally, then they were breaking the inmigration laws of the US. Is this true or not? So why weren't they picked up and deported? And why you of all people, are defending people who marched with pictures of Che Guevara aloft demanding that the laws be changed to grant them legal status when they started by breaking the law to begin with? Your reasoning sometimes leaves thinking you are exposing yourself too much to the Sun rays in the Caribbean ,brother, and they are afecting your brain in a detrimental way.
Good post. I read this story yesterday morning and because the story that I read was very short wasn't sure if there was more to it than reported. You're absolutely right in mentioning all the criminals sitting around free in the US and nothing being done where she is being threatened with deportation.
By the way, I don't use the fincadelpacuare blog to post political items any longer. That originally began as a journal and has reverted to it's original usage. In February I started blogfromthejungle.blogspot for the political posts. Thanks for the link, anyway!
We will add Blog From the Jungle to the blogroll, Larry.... Thanks to you!!
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