Facing deportation, Texan at Harvard draws support

Ah chron.com commenters... where would our society be without them?

"Expell the illegal immigrant from Harvard and deport him." -- sangellone

"Would you like some cheese with your whine you illegal usurper?????" -- StevieWashingtonTheAngryYouth

"BHO and the liberal media are softening people up so that when BHO proposes amnesty people will think of stories like this and be compassionate. Bottom line, illegal is illegal and he needs to be deported." -- 41magisfine

"What an idiot. He expected to go from Mexico to the U.S. on a plane without a passport and he was surprised he was caught. They say this is an ideal example for the Dream Act. What this really is, is an excellent example of illegal immigrants taking over this country and liberal politicians siding with them over real Americans." -- ArmyStrong86

These people are such winners!

 

Hey, a subsequent blog post with more moths being attracted to the flame: http://blogs.chron.com/immigration/archives/2010/06/immigration_off.html

"Harvard should be ashamed of its self for admitting illegal aliens. Sounds like Harvard is aiding and abetting to me..." -- NoWay

"send him back to Mexico or wherever he came from. Make sure to get the rest of his group too." -- jwyoming

"It would not surprise me if he has committed other crimes while here. ... We do not need criminals like him in the USA illegally." -- doogcat

 

If Harvard is wiling to give the kid a chance and a break, and are proud to have him as a student, that's good enough for me. They can afford him, after all.

 

There are such things as student visas. Why can't he spend his summers in his own country until he applies for legal residency like everyone else that comes here legally?

 

First they take all the low paying job, now they take over highly prestigious spot that could be taken by an American, how dare they.

I am kidding, he should be able to just get a student visa. Those don't seem to be too hard to get. I think 95% of my classmates have them.

 

Because he grew up in this country, his life, his friends, everything he has ever known is the U.S.

This is his country. Should he be forced to go to some place completely foreign to him? Did he commit any crime or break and law? No. It was his parents.

Let the kid stay.

 

Man it's not enough that for Asians and Jews to take the Ivy League spots from deserving White Christians? What will White Christians have to do?

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Well, considering he's been living in the US for 15 out of his 19 years, maybe he doesn't have any actual place to go in Mexico. He may be Mexican but for him, Mexico is not home. San Antonio is.

 

This isn't France. We're a nation of laws. He's an adult and he's breaking the law by being here. If he were six years old I'd blame his parents. He's a grown man with the full knowledge that he's here illegally.

What about his ability to sneak into the country illegally without being caught makes him more worthy of being a resident here than any other person anywhere in the world who'd like to live here?

 

So, a kid who's brought to the country as an infant should stand up and move back to Mexico as soon as he reaches adulthood?

 

A problem he wouldn't have if he hadn't broken the law and come to this country illegally. I don't think it's our responsibility to find people homes before we deport them for coming here illegally.

 

He should be deported as soon as he's found to be illegal. The Mexican government can find his relatives or take care of him if they want. You keep being an apologist and an enabler of illegal immigration and they'll just continue trying to sneak in. We're not a nanny state for actual Americans, why should we be one for non-Americans?

 

The comments TSchmal posted are ridiculous. Freaking tards.

 

Those people commenting on the chronicle article should not be allowed to own a computer. Just pure stupidity.

 

I don't agree with those comments, but it's freedom of speech.

 

So if you found out tomorrow that your parents actually came to this country illegally when you were a baby, you would voluntarily drop your entire life and move to the country of your birth?

 

So his main crime was being born to parents who broke the law?

 

1. I never want hear a another negative thing about 'affirmative action'.
2. If you break the law long enough . . . . it becomes ok? right?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_wedding_chapel_fugitive - I think this guy would agree. Just let him go too.

QUESTION: Do we have LAWS or do we have SUGGESTIONS?

I think we get so involved in these individual cases . . . don't seem like we looking to fix the laws.

QUESTION: How do we 'Fix' The laws? Or is it a case by case bases??? We like this illegal so he stays but we don't like that one so they have to go back?

I think Reagan tried Amesty. How did that turn out? If it worked why do we still have so many illegals? IF we do Amesty again . . does it encourage illegality with the ideal that . . . if you break the law long enough you will get away with it?

At this point . . .. I tire of discussing individual cases.
The question is. . . WHAT IS THE FIX? What is the remedy to this issue?
One that will fix it for all involved. I hate the idea of 'individual basis' because then all the ISMs get involved.

We like Mexicans but not Haitians
all of euro is ok but Salvadorians are not
only the young . . only the educated . . only those that are left handed. . .
blah blah blah

QUESTION: Would you be ok with a rule that . . if you live here for 14 uninterrupted years you automatically become a citizen?

Rocket River

 

We are also a nation of morals and justice. Justice for all. And has Horace would say, "Laws without morals are in vain".

He didn't sneak into this country illegally. He is not more or less worthy of any other legal immigrant. He did not come here by choice, nor did he choose to be an American by choice. He embraced American culture because that is the only culture he knew.

It would indeed be cruel and unusual to send someone who had committed no crime to a foreign country where his friends, family, and self-identity were left behind.

You can say laws are absolute. But they are not. They are indeed open to interpretation and that's why we have judges throughout the lower court system. Any given judge may apply the law somewhat differently.

A man who is speeding to get to the hospital may have broken the law, but rarely is he given a ticket.

Laws are not absolute.