Illegal Aliens Face Deportation

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Illegal Aliens Face Deportation Following Protest in McCain’s Office

Five protestors, including four illegal aliens, dressed in caps and gowns staged a sit-in at Senator John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) Tucson office last week. This latest move by amnesty proponents was done to demand that McCain support the DREAM Act, legislation that would grant amnesty for certain illegal aliens under the age of 35. (<A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/us/18dream.html?partner=rss&emc=rss">The New York Times, May 17, 2010). McCain has cosponsored this bill in years past, but this year he has not. (See S.729).

The activists, who are not students and only one of whom is even an Arizona resident, launched the sit-in around noon, while about 50 supporters chanted and cheered from outside. Four of the protestors were arrested on misdemeanor trespassing charges when they refused to leave the office after closing. Upon their arrest law enforcement learned that that three of protesters are in the country illegally. (Arizona Daily Star, May 18, 2010). The illegal aliens, 25-year-old Lizbeth Mateo, who came to the U.S. from Mexico when she was 14 and lives in California; Mohammad Abdollahi, a 24-year-old Michigan resident from Iran; and Yahaira Carrillo from Mexico, who now lives in Kansas City, Mo., are expected to face deportation proceedings. (Id.). Tania Unzueta, 26, from Los Angeles, fled the protest in order to avoid arrest.

This incident may be the first time illegal aliens have been placed into deportation proceedings after publicly lobbying Congress to pass the DREAM Act.

[Ban Hammer 12,837]

good. let's see how big a crowd shows up to protest now.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Good.

Edited May 26, 2010 by Paul and Vanessa

[jimnlena 8]

Its about time!!!!!! The protest crowds should start shrinking now!

[SMOKE 1,426]

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Even I have to give this a +1

[TBoneTX 43,058]

Its about time!!!!!! The protest crowds should start shrinking now!

Si, man. Fascinatingly to me, a (legal Mexican) caller to a local talk-radio program suggested that very few of these protestors are illegals themselves -- because the illegals are working to earn their living and are too busy to protest (that is, they have better things to do). The protestors, the caller suggested, are likely students or other (his word) rabble.