Illegal Saved a Kid in New Mexico

[MattR]

Pulled this link from another board-

http://www.mediacomtoday.com/news/re...org%3E&ps=1011

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The man who chased down a suspected child abductor and saved a 6-year-old girl from what could have been a horrible fate was honored as a hero Friday. But he is also gaining a new kind of celebrity: as a poster child of sorts for immigration rights in state and national immigration debates.
Antonio Diaz Chacon, 23, is married to an American and has been in the country for four years. But Chacon says he abandoned attempts to get legal residency because the process was difficult and expensive.
Diaz Chacon revealed his immigration status to Univision this week and confirmed to The Associated Press that he is illegal, prompting chatter on the Internet and social networking sites that his case underscored immigrant rights positions in two ongoing political debates.
Some argue he is an example of the kind of immigrant the federal government will now largely leave alone. The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that deportations would focus on criminals.
"As exceptional as his story is," said Christina Parker, a spokeswoman for Border Network for Human Rights in El Paso, Texas, "it points to the fact that most undocumented immigrants living in the United States are not criminals. He's more than not a criminal now. He's a hero."

So he saved a kid, but reveals he's Illegal and everyone thinks he should get a free pass, kind of like that reporter that came out a couple months ago, he still is breaking a law and needs to be punished.

[Mazin]

Good for him!
Now they should grant a extended visa and he should go through the proper channels and get his documentation.

[mcantar18c]

"Chacon says he abandoned attempts to get legal residency because the process was difficult and expensive."

I don't care if he shits flowers and has superpowers. A person that choses the illegal route over the legal one, wrong over right, simply because the right path was "too difficult," is not somebody I want in my country. Deport his ass.

[Lex_Luthor]

Good for him!
Now they should grant a extended visa and he should go through the proper channels and get his documentation.

+1

[mevshooter]

The problem is, for every 1 of these stories, there are 10 more about a cop who was shot by an illegal, the 3 year old girl who was killed when an illegal ran a stop light, and hit another car into the baskin robbins by my house, my neighbors who didn't pay their mortgage for 22 months, saved up all of that money, completely destroyed the house when it was forclosed on, and used that cash to buy a house outright in brighton, and our new neighbors were left with the mess... and so on.

I don't believe that "illegals" are inherently evil, but when one doesn't have any "skin in the game" or any real loyalty to this country, or accountability for what they do wrong, or free passes to either do things wrong or slush funds to pay for them not having health insurance or other programs, or ways to track them down to collect, I have a problem with that.

I would have LOVED Aurora South to pay the 10 grand left over after our insurance for my beautiful baby girl. Heck, or to not have had to pay for the insurance and have them foot the bill for the entire 20 grand. That would have been awesome. But alas, we're in the system...

[Ronin13]

"Chacon says he abandoned attempts to get legal residency because the process was difficult and expensive."

I don't care if he shits flowers and has superpowers. A person that choses the illegal route over the legal one, wrong over right, simply because the right path was "too difficult," is not somebody I want in my country. Deport his ass.

+1,000,000! I agree. I don't care if he is the modern incarnation of Jesus himself, if he's not here legally he needs to get out and do it right. If it was easy and cheap America would be on the way to rivaling China's population.

[Graves]

To an extent I agree but I gotta say, if it were my little girl's ass he saved I'd owe em big time!!

[Fentonite]

Yup. I'd owe him. I'd buy his ticket back to his country of legal residence, then try to help him enter the country as a non-criminal.

To an extent I agree but I gotta say, if it were my little girl's ass he saved I'd owe em big time!!

[CMP_5.56]

Yup. I'd owe him. I'd buy his ticket back to his country of legal residence, then try to help him enter the country as a non-criminal.

+1

[Cman]

Yup. I'd owe him. I'd buy his ticket back to his country of legal residence, then try to help him enter the country as a non-criminal.

That is the proper way to do it!