Homeland Security Secretary takes steps to prevent Yaderlin Hiraldo/Jimenez's deportation. So the article reads from the N. Y. Daily News, written by Richard Sisk. With both Sen. Kennedy and Sen. Kerry (both from Massachusetts) involved, as well as Homeland Security Secretary, Michael Chertoff, I'll be shocked and amazed if this woman ever has too much to worry about in her life in regards to deportation. However, just the mere thought that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency would even consider deporting this woman really pisses me off.
We're talking about a 23 year old woman, who, back in 2001 (meaning she, at that time, was only 17 years old and not even considered a legal adult in the United States), entered this nation illegally from the Dominican Republic. Since being here, she met her now husband, Spec. Alex Jimenez, 25, and began the process whereby she'd become a legal and full citizen of the United States of America. During this legalization fiasco (and you know it was a fiasco just because that's how the US department of anything ever runs), her husband got sent on tour to Iraq.
Then, she finds out that her husband is one of the two soldiers still missing after a month, when their unit was attacked in an ambush that killed 5 other soldiers, and their interpreter. Spec. Jimenez's ID card was found recently in an Al Qaeda retreat. So basically, we have a 23 year old new bride who just lost her husband to a war that 70% of the American population whole-heartedly disagrees with, who is also now facing deportation....which 100% of the American public who have commented on previous articles about Mrs. Jimenez have also disagreed with.
What I want to know is why on earth did it take these people so long to allow things to get to this point? I mean seriously think about this. Being married to a soldier, Mrs. Jimenez would obviously have to have some form of federally issued ID, just so she can shop on the base, or even live on the base with her husband. This means that not only was the US Army aware of her, but also the Department of Defense, AND possibly, the Department of Justice. And, since she was in the process of obtaining her green card and going through the proceedings to becoming a legal citizen, obviously, the Department of Immigration also knew not only who she was, but WHERE she was. So it took her husband being put on an international missing alert for these departments to suddenly come out of the woodwork and declare her an illegal alien and begin a deporation for her?
Wow! That's brutal. Ok, and really stupid. I can now see the reason why there are approximately 3.5 million illegal citizens living in our country. We have the ability to track a cow all the way from its mother's womb to the butcher's block, and even onto someone's dinner plate.... but we can't figure out the exact location of 3.5 MILLION people? I agree with George Carlin. Give these people a cow. They'll be easier to keep track of.
I truly feel heart broken for Mrs. Jimenez. Here she is, with a whole life ahead of her. Trying like heck to make her life more productive, to live under the freedoms that our Constitution offers, in a nation that she personally chose to come to and live in. And, most importantly, is doing everything possible to become a full legal citizen in this nation... and what are we doing? Trying to deport her. Her biggest crime? Wanting a better life for herself.
Welcome to the United States Mrs. Jimenez. My personal apologies for the blatantly retarded government here. My best wishes to you in your fight to remain in our nation, and my hopes and prayers upon your husband returning alive.
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