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Deported U.S. military veterans activate in Tijuana
Danfogel, again you are missing the point, | understand that you and many people like you hate people that commit crimes, and to a certain extent so do I. Maybe people need to be shot on the spot for jaywalking. Everybody has a different opinion of what the proper punishment is for each crime. but my point is that just like you people deserve a second chance, I know you probably believe in your heart that you will never commit a crime in your life. but if you did or your brother did or your father did or your mother did, should you also get banished to an island somewhere so that nobody could ever be hurt by them again as they do in Russia when they send people to Siberia. but this is America, I thought we were better than that. That is why I was willing to die for your country,. I do agree with you that it makes no sense at all to commit a crime if you know you can get deported. But sometimes there are things and circumstances in which a person does something that he would never otherwise do. That person may have done everything right all of his life, model citizen (or model Legal immigrant in my case) model husband, model parent, model worker, Model Marine . But if that person screws up one time the immigration judge cannot take any of that into consideration. So no it was not up to the Judge to make the decision to deport him, in fact the judge that heard my case said that she had no choice but to deport me. Because the law did not let her take that into consideration. Thanks to a series of laws that have taken most of the decision making away from the judges (new world order). As i stated in the beginning you missed the point. People who recite an oath and become citizens can commit any crime other than treason and not lose their citizenship. While those of us who not only recited the oath but also proved that we meant it, don’t even get proper due process at our hearing. much less get the chance redeem ourselves. I completely agree that a lot of people deserve to get deported for the crimes thy commit, but also believe that when the country accepts people to serve the country, they should at least treat them as they do a person that does nothing good for this country other than be borne here or recite an oath. Since you do know of the danger and consequences of defending your country do you think that it would be right for any of those people you mentioned that did risk and even lost life or limb, should be treated in anyway less than any of you that enjoy every opportunity that your freedom gives you, even though you never did anything to deserve the sacrifice that they made for you. I still feel that even though you know of people that made the sacrifice, you will never really understand it until you step up to the plate. Good luck, I hope you are successful in living your whole life without committing any sins so you don’t have to burn in hell. Since that seems to be your philosophy.— October 6, 2014 9:40 p.m.
Deported U.S. military veterans activate in Tijuana
Danfogel, I am curious as to how you know so much about what it takes to get deported and about immigration and citizenship, I also wonder if you ever served your county. Because it doesn’t sound like you realize the sacrifice it takes to defend your country. Nor the danger that we are put into defending your country. I say this because you are saying “The only thing "very wrong with this' is this guy thinks he should get a break because he was in the military.” It sounds like you think that he didn’t earn the right to at least be treated like the people that he was willing to die for in order to defend, them, their country and their way of life. People commit crimes. And people pay for those crimes. He did not ask to not pay for that crime. That would be asking for a break. No one here needs a lesson on how the law reads, we know what the law “is” what people here are saying is that it si wrong and needs to be changed, because to many non citizens have laid there life down defending the country they loved and believed they were becoming a national of when thy took that oath and then served it, for no one to care about this injustice. I will never understand why a person that takes an oath to defend the constitution of the United States, but never does anything to actually prove that he or she would defend this country, can commit any crime or crimes short of treason, and not get deported. Yet a person that makes practically the same oath, and faithfully serves it, by putting his life on the line, cant even have one strike before being out. In fact when he goes to an immigration hearing he did not even “earn” the right to have the immigration judge to consider his military record when deciding whether to deport, him or her. This shows that too many people pay a lot of lip service as to the gratitude towards the people that defend this country, but they obviously care more about a piece of paper which says that someone has become a citizen, than the sacrifice, love of county and valor that a person shows, when serving this country. Semper Fi— October 2, 2014 11:02 p.m.