[brian]

This community is rallying behind a nurse and her family who face deportation for overstaying their visas.

NEW ROCKFORD, N.D. Marina Arroyo, who is from the Philippines, her husband and their three children were arrested last week after a traffic stop for a broken headlight.

The work visa for Arroyo expired three years ago, said Tim Counts, spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Bloomington, Minn. He said the entire Arroyo family is in violation of their visas.

"Anyone here on a temporary visa is required to leave before it expires," he said. "Making an application for another visa doesn't give one the right to remain here."

Full Story: http://www.thedickinsonpress.com/ap/...w&id=D8T0A3481

[Lookn2hvn]

Why is everyone so upset? The family had a Visa, not full citizenship. It's not permanent. Kudos to the government for stepping up and enforcing the law.

[DTCC PreRN]

Originally Posted by ThankfulNurse2b

Why is everyone so upset? The family had a Visa, not full citizenship. It's not permanent. Kudos to the government for stepping up and enforcing the law.

I agree with ThankfulNurse2b.

[elkpark]

I'm so baffled by this sort of thing -- what part of "breaking the law" do people not understand???

Can you imagine a newspaper article about "Community rallies around family caught knocking over convenience stores"???

[Katnip]

Originally Posted by DTCC PreRN

I agree with ThankfulNurse2b.

Me too.

[CRNA2007]

Amen.

Originally Posted by elkpark

I'm so baffled by this sort of thing -- what part of "breaking the law" do people not understand???

Can you imagine a newspaper article about "Community rallies around family caught knocking over convenience stores"???

[NICUrn2B]

Its unfortunate that her visa wasn't kept up-to-date, how was she working? Illegally? Shouldn't the place she was working be fined too because they were employing someone illegally? Come on... people who are here on work visas renew their visas EVERY single year..paying at least 200 bux each time... how can you sleep knowing that you are doing something wrong????

There's no excuse for not taking action.


"That's what's so incredibly frustrating about this deal," Braunberger said. "We seem to deport the good people because we can find them. The ones you and I and most people think should be deported aren't because we can't find them."

This is true. Those immigrants who come to our country and actually contribute go thru the legal system and may have to face deportation while those who come here and ruin our country... well... they'll never have to leave and this is very disturbing.

I don't understand why someone would come to this country, which is already a privilege, and then not better themselves, have a gazzillionn children, and drain our healthcare/etc systems????

I am the child of an immigrant nurse too and my family went from no income to six figure income(s!!) and i can honestly stand up and say that theres no excuse for failure, everything is possible in America!

And i'm damn thankful and proud to be one of the lucky ones!

[Rep]

Their visas expired three years ago, they have ample time then to apply for green cards or adjust their status. At that time there were available immigrant visas for nurses. I wonder why they never thought of that.

The government is enforcing the law and I hope they would enforce it fairly to everyone else including the 12 million illegals here. I feel sorry for them.

[Martinette]

Knowing homeland security/immigration services like I do leads me to believe that this could be their screw up and not the nurse's.

Here is one example of many: The british husband of a friend of mine applied for his visa in the time frame allowed and it was granted. A few years later the INS turned around and told him that he had filled out the wrong form and his visa was incorrect and thus null and void (he had filled in the ONE they sent and told him to fill in). Therefore he was suddenly declared illegal and deported. This was back when we had INS and not homeland security.

They do this stuff to people all the time. Just because this nurse did not have the right visa doesn't mean that she didn't apply for one, pay for one, and think she had one as per the immigration department's instructions.

Even if it is immigration department's screw up...they will deport you and seperate you from your family and you are just as illegal as the guy who snuck in from Mexico. When you are dealing with the US immigration service it always pays to hire a lawyer.

We reckon that immigration intentionally misleads people in order to screw up the process for them. I am not the first person who has said this.

When I lived in the States and wanted my English fiance to move in with me I contacted US Immigration in order to find out what I needed to do to secure the appropriate visa. They gave me directions and sent forms.

I checked it out with an immigration lawyer. The good folks over at immigration had given me all of the wrong information and my fiance could have come over on what he thought was the right visa (which cost loads of money) only to find out later that it was the wrong one and that he had broken US law. You pay for their screw -ups. This is how I ended up moving to the UK. I wanted to marry my fiance without having to mess about and get screwed by USA immigration. I didn't want to go through what my friend and her husband did.

I could give another 100 examples of INS screw-ups of this kind.

[lyceeboo]

Originally Posted by CRNA2007

Amen.

AMEN!!!!!!!!

They are hurting the cause...American Nurses DEMANDINDING FAIR WAGEs!!!!! keep them out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!