Filipina nurse, family face deportation

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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."

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Specializes in PACU, Med/Surg.

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.

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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.

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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"??? :uhoh21:

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I agree with ThankfulNurse2b.

Me too.

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Amen.

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"??? :uhoh21:

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Specializes in Surgical Nursing.

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!

:angryfire

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Specializes in Medical-Surgical.

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.

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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 you, ThankfulNurse2b.

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Chances are that they were here under the H1-B visa when it was still available and only required the basic English exam such as TOEFL to be able to work in the US. She may have had issues passing of the required English exams to be able to get a Visa Screen Certificate to apply for the green card.

But this still does not release her from her responsibility of having a legal document that permits her to stay in the US. Sorry, but she knew that her visa had a an expiration date on it from when she received it.

Her town has no business rallying around her, she overstayed a visa by three years and needs to leave.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

I'm a Filipina, I know what they feel. But then, what they did was wrong. Like what the previous post said, "they have ample time to apply for green card and adjust their status." There are important things you should consider when going to a foreign country, and that includes legal papers to be able stay there!

I just hope they're doing fine.....

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well law is law

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