We are so cruel to illegal immigrants
This Yahoo story about two siblings who came here illegally attempts to play the heartstrings:
When Vladimir Gongora arrived in New York City three years ago, he didn’t know his own name.
Vladimir was born deaf in the small village of Cuyantepeque in the northwest corner of El Salvador. He wasn’t allowed to go to school and never learned to read or write.
“He used to cry and cry because he couldn’t ask for anything,” his mother, Dolores remembers. Then, when Vladimir was about 7 years old, he began gesturing to his little sister, Patricia, who was just 5. Bit they bit, they formed their own sign language, which became increasingly complex. Patricia translated her brother’s signs into Spanish for her parents, and all of a sudden, Vladimir was no longer so alone…
They’ve been inseparable ever since. But a U.S. immigration court could soon force them apart.
Vladimir and Patricia both crossed the border on their own to join their parents in New York City ”” Vladimir in 2012, Patricia two years later. The two were part of a surge of unaccompanied minors from Central America who arrived at the southern border of the United States. Last year, Vladimir was granted asylum by the federal government because of the persecution he faced in El Salvador for his disability. (He was, among other things, denied access to schooling.) His sister also claimed asylum but was denied by the asylum office in April, despite her key role in helping her brother communicate. Now the government is pushing for her deportation, an action her attorney is appealing.
The title of the piece is “Is a callous immigration system tearing siblings apart?” I wonder what would satisfy liberals who ascribe to that philosophy: turning no one away? Giving everyone services forever? Why have an immigration system at all?
Speaking of services, the public is already footing the bill for their legal defense:
This short timeline can make it challenging for the young immigrants ”” some are just toddlers ”” or their relatives to find an attorney; the court does not provide defendants with a public defender as in the criminal system. Patricia and Vladimir are lucky ”” they have attorneys and live in New York City, where the city council has allocated funding for nonprofits to represent unaccompanied minors.
I wrote that the public is already paying for their attorneys, which must be a pretty penny, but I very much doubt that’s the only thing for which the public is paying. It’s also quite interesting to me that in the entire article (which is fairly long) there is very little said about the children’s parents: how did they get here? How do they support themselves (or do they in fact support themselves)? One would think such details would be relevant, but apparently not to the reporter who wrote the piece or the editors who approved it. That would distract from the propaganda message.
It’s edifying to look at the comments there. When I clicked on them, there was a grand total of 1,680. I only read the first twenty or so, but not one of them was sympathetic to the story’s premise. Some made excellent points, including this:
What loving parents, they leave their children (minors at the time) to fend for themselves, while they come to America illegally as well. I guess there was no problem splitting up the family then. Also, it seems that Vladdy was perfectly OK to be without his sister for 2 years, was that also the US Immigration court’s fault? They were both 17 or 18 when they crossed the border illegally; at that age, you should be responsible for your actions. So far it seems to me that the parents as well as their adult children are responsible for their actions.
Good point; these two siblings were already voluntarily separated for two years, and Vladimir (who supposedly was unable to communicate with anyone but his sister at the time) made the journey first, alone. It’s not hard to see why that would happen: he was the one who was more likely to be granted asylum, and they knew it; and then she could come in and plead that her presence was necessary for him.
Not only that, but the article noted that since his arrival in NY, Vladimir has been in school learning American Sign Language at the Lexington School for the Deaf in Queens. So by my calculations, he’s been there since some time in 2012, and therefore he should be able to communicate with the rest of the world and not be so dependent on his sister.
If you’ve got the patience to look through more of the comments there, I’d be curious if any of them agree with the propaganda points the story is pushing.
You have a “pubic” where I think you mean “public”. Feel free to delete this comment.
So. Completely typical media story: Oh, Them Poor Things. My cynicism knows no bounds.
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That’s quite an “oops.”
Thanks; will fix.
Yahoo and Google “news” is more of the same liberal bias. The NYT has been replaced and the new crowd is even worse.
There ain’t nothin’ like a shame.
But leave it to the self-righteous
to bring back the funk.
The Left’s got the propaganda matrix out in force, neh Neo.
It’s one of the ways they can mind control people like the Europeans into welcoming their conquerors.
A few years ago when my son was still in elementary school, one of his reading stories was about a poor little girl crossing the big, bad river on a rickety raft, just trying to find her mommy and daddy. A kind immigration officer decided to ignore the mean laws and help her. My son, a born conservative, raised his hand and called BS. Leftists are utterly shameless.
But we have lots of available jobs for deaf Salvadorans who have no education, right? I mean, it’s not like Vlad and his entire family are going to be life-long welfare dependents in the U.S., right? And U.S. taxpayers, with $18 trillion in public debt and hundreds of trillions more in unfunded liabilities, can easily afford to invite in (and onto our welfare rolls) all of Mexico and Central America’s poor, not to mention millions of middle-east Muslims (of whom 90+% are still on food stamps 5 years after arriving here).
“I wonder what would satisfy liberals who ascribe to that philosophy: turning no one away? Giving everyone services forever? Why have an immigration system at all?
It’s edifying to look at the comments there. When I clicked on them, there was a grand total of 1,680. I only read the first twenty or so, but not one of them was sympathetic to the story’s premise.
If you’ve got the patience to look through more of the comments there, I’d be curious if any of them agree with the propaganda points the story is pushing.” neo
I don’t know what percentage of the commenters are sympathetic but many liberals favor an ‘open borders’ policy with no limits on immigration. Where anyone who can get here is ‘preapproved’.
Plenty of RINOs do as well, including the current establishment front runner for the House speaker; PAUL RYAN’S OPEN BORDERS PUSH WITH LUIS GUTIERREZ EXPOSED IN 2013 VIDEO
With ‘friends’ like that who needs enemies?
Throw the parents across the border in chains for abandoning their children and a sentence of death should they illegally cross again, let the children stay in an orphanage until 18 and then march them across the border under the same sentence. Illegal acts should have consequences, each individual in an invasion, when identified, must be punished.
How is it that the do-gooder class can’t figure out that when they’ve Cloward-Piven’d the welfare state — it will not be re-set — but just implode ?
History is FULL of Cloward-Piven’d societies:
1998, Russia.
Fundamental default.
Result: pensioners cut off entirely. [ Ruble payments not adjusted for the debasement of that fiat currency. ]
Resolution: the pensioners starved to death by the thousands all over that nation… most of them women. Cumulatively, millions died. Because of their ages, their deaths were never reported as being from starvation — just old age.
The truth would be too demoralizing.
Within one-year the number of souls qualifying for a state pension had simply collapsed. Of course, those surviving had younger kin that had provided room and board. Those without family — died. For there was no wealth transfers left for them.
ALL of these do-gooders are imploding the very system that they will come to need when they retire.
For it must be obvious that souls with their inclination are not prone to capital investments. Like Bernie, they have an abiding faith in wealth transfers. They simply can’t quite figure out how the economic world operates.
I looked through a whole lot of the comments. There is a very tiny minority supporting the author of this article. Several of those were people who are mentally unfit to be wielding a keyboard.
It seems likely that border-crashing, here and in Europe, will be driving the political currents for the foreseeable future, and not in a way that will make the leftists happy. Unless the jihad uses a nuclear bomb somewhere first. Then it’s going to go even more poorly for the left. Popcorn, we need more popcorn.
Since women are the dominant voters, playing on heart strings is a great way to rewrite the constitution, what do they care about it? they obviously want an end to it and a dictatorship as long as it has a sexy guy doing it…
men are cold cruel and callous, which means that playing on their heart strings to change rules is not how you change mens minds…
but then again, we dont rub fruit mix on ourselves thinking it will keep us young…
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