On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:35:58 +0900, "Ryan Ginstrom"
<ginstrom@hotmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>Ernest Schaal wrote:
>> I don't know if you have been following US news, but the San Francisco
>> Chronicle had a story on their website of a family where the parents
>> came here and overextended their visa by over a decade. The children
>> only knew the United States, but the parents were deported anyway.
>
>Of course that's a totally different situation -- here the parents are being
>deported, not the children.
>
>While on the subject of draconian immigration policies, however:
>
>I recall a few years ago, California passed a law that said children who
>were US citizens could not receive free medical care, if their parents were
>illegal aliens. No idea if that one stood up in the courts.
>
>One story I liked was when the mayor of a small Californian town was picked
>up in an immigration raid, because he didn't have his wallet with him. He
>had to get his son to come down with his proof of citizenship to get out.

Remember "Born In East L.A"?




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