"Family torn apart" in Danbury...

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Here's the link to the article in the Danbury News Times: link.

This "drama" has been going on for a while now in this area, and basically the newspaper stories and comments have been along the lines of, "They are a hard working family and they were trying to become residents. Why are they being persecuted?"

The parents have been in this country for 18 years, while trying to supposedly "legalize their status" for the past ten years.

Maybe I'm the only one who sees it this way, but they either came to this country illegally (making them criminals) or they came on a visa of some sort that expired. Once it expired they stayed (making them criminals.)

It seems as though I'm the only person who looks at this and thinks, "Maybe when they visa expired, if they couldn't obtain legal status at that point, they should have left." That has never, ever been mentioned in any of the numerous articles in the local papers regarding this family.

It seems to me that the papers and the supporters who write in feel that every person on the planet has a right to come to the country to live, and that as long as they say they are trying to "legalize their status" that ought to be good enough to let them live here.

I am just a bit frustrated by the way this case is being described in the media. It's always, "Look at the poor family and how they are being mistreated."

The "poor family" created this situation by breaking the law, in my opinion. Now the mean and nasty government is supposed ignore the same law these people broke or they will be perceived as uncaring and unreasonable.



/rant over.

I agree with you they want people to fill sorry for them breaking the law while they are in our Country breaking the laws. Maybe we should just release all the CDC prisoners cause they did not break the law ethier "Ya Right". Check out or Google Lou Dobbs from CNN and the Minutemen web site this will really piss you off but it is good stuf;)