Bend Over, America: Portrait of an Illegal Alien Criminal
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AMERICA):
THIS CRIMINAL . . .
- entered USA illegally on multiple occasions in 1986
- after entering US gave Customs officials a false name (changed what he
*claims* is his real name, "Antonio Miguel," to the scheming, tripartite "Raul
Hernandez Reynosa")
- obtained permanent US residency a mere two years after ILLEGALLY entering the
US
- convicted in a US court of carrying a concealed weapon
- has multiple convictions in US criminal courts for dealing in stolen property
(probably that of a US citizen derided as a "dumb gringo"); was arrested for
dealing in stolen property AGAIN just a week after the first conviction
- has three young US-born children (one has to consider the likelihood that
their non-English-speaking mother is likewise an illegal alien like the father,
which nonetheless does not prevent her from collecting monthly US Government
checks/Food Stamps for her offspring), all of whom have had $$LIVER
TRANSPLANTS$$ (guess who paid for these hugely expensive operations?) and who
*ALL* require, as per the below newspaper report, "extensive medical attention"
- liver transplants of all three children (one's an infant) are suposedly due
to a genetic defect (in other words, guess it would have been TOO MUCH TO ASK
for the criminal illegal alien to use birth control after having TWO MORE kids
with the same genetic defect after the first, now age 12, was born)
- the criminal's non-English-speaking wife doesn't work
- the criminal's family lives in GOVERNMENT-SUBSIDIZED housing in the US
- the criminal is now getting three square meals a day, free health care,
almost certainly free legal representation etc. etc.
- the criminal's Anglo-sounding boss "has no problem" with his employee's
criminal background
and now to the sob story . . .
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/5148529.htm?template=contentModules/p
rintstory.jsp
Mon, Feb. 10, 2003
Guatemalan man with three ill children faces deporation
BY CHARLES RABIN
Antonio Miguel talks with his three children daily, but sees them only once
every three months -- when guards escort him to a judge's chamber at Krome
detention center.
His three children, ages 10 months, seven years and 12 years, require
extensive medical attention. Each has had a liver transplant, due to a genetic
defect.
The youngest, Antonio Jr., has been at Jackson Memorial Hospital the past two
weeks fighting the rejection of his new liver.
''The children miss their papi,'' their mother, Candelaria Pascual, says in
limited English.
The government wants to deport Miguel, a permanent U.S. resident since 1988,
to his native Guatemala.
Prosecutors say he gave a false name when he crossed the border from Mexico
to Arizona in 1986. They also point out that Miguel, 35, has been convicted of
carrying a concealed weapon during a traffic stop in Homestead in 1990, and has
convictions for dealing in stolen property in 1998 and 1999.
The last two convictions landed him in the Miami-Dade County Jail for 364
days. Federal laws revised in 1996 call for the deportation of any alien
convicted of an aggravated felony as defined by immigration law which can apply
to lesser crimes.
''You know he's going to be deported because he is poor,'' said Natalia Lasa,
a volunteer at Miami Children's Hospital who has been with the family through
all the transplants. ``He's been nothing short of an excellent father.''
Miguel's journey began in 1986 when, after leaving Guatemala, he tried to
cross the Mexican border into Arizona. Customs agents stopped him. To avoid
being sent back to Guatemala, Miguel told authorities he was a Mexican named
Raul Hernandez Reynosa.
It worked. Miguel was returned to Mexico, and a week later managed to sneak
into the U.S.
Government lawyer Loren Coy brought up the fake name at a hearing before
immigration Judge Neale Foster at Krome two weeks ago. ''When the man decided
to lie to the immigration service, he fouled up his own nest,'' Coy said.
Miguel eventually found his way to the south Dade County, picking vegetables
on a farm. In 1988, Miguel was granted permanent residency. Not long after he
married Pascual.
Then he got into trouble. In August 1989, Homestead police found a concealed
gun in Miguel's car during a traffic stop. Five months later he pleaded guilty.
He served no jail time.
Coy said Miguel was required to disclose the conviction on his application
for residency. But Miguel's lawyer, Troy Harris, pointed out that the
conviction came after his application. Coy then asked to continue the hearing
on Tuesday.
By then, Coy said, he would write a brief stating the government's case or he
would drop the deportation effort.
Miguel stayed clean until Oct. 21, 1998, when he was charged with dealing in
stolen property. He was convicted a month later. A week after that conviction,
Miguel was again arrested for dealing in stolen property.
''He's committed immigration violations which include obtaining an
immigration benefit by possible fraud,'' said INS spokeswoman Ana Santiago.
``And due to his significant crime history, INS is required by law to keep him
in custody.''
Harris paraded character witnesses before Foster. Coy asked Miguel's boss at
a fire safety company, James Hickman, if he was aware of Miguel's criminal
past.
Hickman said he wasn't: ``If I'd have known before I would have put him on
probation. But now that I've met him, I have no problem with it.''
Local immigration attorneys say a judge can take sick children into account
when deciding whether to deport someone.
''You have to prove extreme hardship,'' said attorney John Pratt. ``You have
to prove some of your family members will suffer if you leave.''
Now, Pascual, 29, is left to care for her three American-born children alone.
She has had to quit her job as a farmworker.
She says if Miguel is deported, she will remain here, where her children have
a brighter future.
''I go to church a lot. No matter what happens, I have to carry on for the
children,'' she says.
With friends and South Miami-Dade's Catholic Charities, the family is
managing, but barely. Home is a small, government-subsidized apartment in
Homestead. The charity supplies food and clothing for the children.
In a borrowed old beat-up car, Pascual couriers her trio of kids back and
forth from Jackson at least once a week. Whenever she can she takes them to
Krome.
Inside the tiny, wood-paneled courtroom at Krome, the kids run to and hug
their father. He looks at his wife sitting stoically on a bench behind him.
''Imagine,'' says Lasa, the volunteer and family friend. ``how can these kids
possibly do without their father?''
"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence the jealousy of a free people
ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign
influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government."
--George Washington, 1796