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Thursday, October 13, 2011
News NC Dream Team works to free Javier de los Santos
Posted By Rhiannon Fionn on Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:39 PM
The NC Dream Team is at it again. The group, which blocked a street near CPCC recently to protest the deportation of undocumented students, is now supporting a slightly different immigration case. Usually, the Dream Team works to help undocumented immigrants who also happen to be young college students. Currently, the group is bringing attention to the case of Javier de los Santos, a husband and father.
De los Santos is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who moved to Charlotte more than a decade ago. He's the father of three, his youngest born this month. His wife, Leticia, developed diabetes when she was pregnant and is now caring for all three children on her own.
According to the NC Dream Team, law enforcement officers stopped de los Santos on Sept. 6 because of a broken license plate light. After the officer who stopped him and discovered he was undocumented, the Dream Team says, de los Santos was arrested and eventually shipped by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to a for-profit prison in Georgia, where he now awaits deportation.
Tax payers pay up to three times as much to house inmates in for-profit prisons than we do for government-run jails and prisons where inmates are often treated better and are closer to their families and legal council.
The NC Dream Team asserts de los Santos shouldn't be deported because he's not a danger to society and therefore not considered a "priority for removal." Those are key words since, this past August the Obama administration made it clear that it didn't want to spend the money on court costs, imprisonment and deportation costs related to cases of undocumented immigrants who aren't a threat to society — such as a family man, like de los Santos. They call this "prosecutorial discretion."
Apparently, however, local law enforcement officers didn't get the memo. They're doing their job and following the law, which doesn't match the president's will.
Will the the NC Dream Team succeed in their quest to get de los Santos' deportation stalled or halted? That remains to be seen. In the mean time, Charlotte has another father-less family on its hands and a private company is making money on its plight.
Go, America!
Here's more of de los Santos' story:
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If he was here illegally and had not made any effort to become legal during the many years he has lived here, he should be deported back to his homeland. Also who is keeping his illegal family up while he is in prison? Me and many other American taxpayers.
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dislikeIt's a lot cheaper to deport him than for him to keep having kids we have to subsidize. And just what is the immigration status of his wife? If she's not here legally, we can pretty well bet we're subsidizing her medical care and very likely providing welfare for the kids, too.
I watched the video. This woman was speaking in Spanish and it's a good bet she's not here legally either. As for Obama's comments, some "hiding". And our immigration system is NOT broken. It's people like him, officials charged with enforcing the law, who are creating problems. Were they doing their jobs illegal aliens such as this family wouldn't think that they had a right to come here illegally, much less to remain here.
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