Punish the innocent, ignore the guilty, praise and honors for the perpetrators

it's the american way...

Under rules adopted by Congress in 1996, a judge cannot allow illegal immigrants to remain in the United States merely because they have a child who is a U.S. citizen. Instead, parents must prove that if they were deported the child would suffer "exceptional and extremely unusual hardship" -- a standard often interpreted to apply to serious medical cases only.

which leads to this shameful and completely unnecessary situation...

Although [Jessica Guncay's] father, Jury Guncay, 45, remains in custody, [her mother, Ana] Tapia, 40, was released several hours after the raid so Jessica would not be left without anyone to care for her. But the black monitoring bracelet around Tapia's ankle testified to the limited nature of that reprieve: She must remain under partial house arrest until her case comes up in immigration court.

Her chances of winning a stay of deportation appear slim.

ah, the united states of america, where, after years and years of turning a blind eye to cheap labor crossing the border to be exploited by united states business interests, surprise, surprise...! now that we've let them in, who gets punished...? why, THEY do, of course... and what happens to those business interests...? they lose some cheap labor and then go hire some more... (or, in the case of circuit city, they FIRE their workers so they REPLACE them with cheap labor...) punishment...? not so much... and the policy-makers and enforcers who are taking parents away from their children...? why, they're REWARDED for doing their jobs...

The inscription on the Statue of Liberty reads...

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

what's happened to my country...?

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