As some of you read what I wrote in my recent diary here that I would follow the case of the man I use as my entry title. Well I did, and want to say that I am happy that Mr. Onyango beat the system. I am a staunch supporter of immigration reform and am against deportations. It does not matter to me the racial lines. All a person like me wants is a fair shot for immigrants of being in american soil and live with their loved one here.
What I am not thrilled about and unduly miffed is the threat and ultimatum hurled against me for having written my previous post on immigration if I did not delete that diary. I have to wonder if I can make a similar threat to you whenever I don`t like what you write.
Ole Texan is not one to run to daddy and complain. I am just asking here `if I can`, and I will thank you for your call.
I mostly agree with the other short comments that the diary generated, except the tone I heard. But that tone, nor threats will preclude me now or ever from airing the unfairness of this immigration system. When I say `my people` I talk about immigrants that seek nothing else but a better life for their own loved ones in the land of the free.
I will ask you to purge that: "well, they broke the law", from your vocabulary "they must be deported". That song is now irrelevant in this space.
I have taken a huge interest following the issue of immigration and how broken the system is as some of you who care have come to understand. I first saw the prevous information I posted in my diary long before the heckling of the president by immigration protesters and I chose to keep my mouth shut then. I knew of the stories and sources but I relied on Obama to fix the problems and waited.
I did so because I am a Kossack. I am a Democrat and wanted to find out if what I read then was true. I respect President Obama above anything else.
President Obama`s rebuke of demands to fix it triggered my diary and gave me the will power to air my dissatisfaction. My point in writing these diaries was never intended to smear President Obama or his family. I write them because today I prove just how damaged and broken this immigration system is. I will give you evidence that the unfairness of this immigration legislation as is has even touched our own here at Daily Kos.
Marcos asked me and you some time ago for help. He said that he had never asked us for help before. But this time the help he needed was to try to keep Brigido from being deported to Mexico. I looked at the photo of Brigido and I swear I see my own son in the arms of his loved ones. Thousands of signatures in the petition Marcos put before us were sent in defense of Brigido, asking for permission to remain in this country. I am not sure how many signatures though, but thousands.
The Brigido link is Marcos` diary when he found out we failed. We failed because obviously those who judged him did not think that Brigido had enough character to warrant a ruling letting him remain in this country, as the judge in the case of Mr. Onyango has found. Mr. Onyango`s character after answering the courts questions was exhibit #1 and impecable evidence that he qualified, along with answered questions you might want to look at.
The point that I want to make here to the broken system of Immigration was given to me by the very same woman who led to the controversy on the issues of my diary, Zeituni Onyango. I deliberately left my point out in the past diary because I wanted more evidence to give on the broken immigration system.
I wanted to wait for this latest case to be resolved by the immigration courts on Dec.3rd. My evidence is unmistakable. Simple racist by white men who sit and say who should live or who should die - so to speak, in the broken Immigration laws that were designed to keep certain folks out of this country.
This is what Aunt Zeituni told us about the immigration system and how she was taken advange of through this broken piece of shit:
"I didn't ask for it; they gave it to me," Onyango said in an interview with CBS affiliate WBZ-TV, scheduled to air tonight and Tuesday night.
"Ask your system," she continued, unapologetically, when asked about the situation. "I didn't create it or vote for it. Go and ask your system."
As a presidential candidate, Mr. Obama told CBS News' Katie Couric that he was not against the possible deportation of his aunt. "If she has violated laws, then those laws have to be obeyed," he said. "We are a nation of laws."
Onyango, however, told WBZ-TV, "If I come as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen."
This is exactly the point I wanted to make earlier. It is not the fault of undocumented immigrants who spend their lives here in the land of the free hiding like Zeituni and Omar. I applaud these two freedom fighters and hope they become the Rosa Parks to Immigration. Both went out and beat the system and I`m thrilled.
Aunt Zeituni`s words to CBS affiliate WBZ-TV should sound loud and clear during hearing on immigration reform. I will personally write a letter to president Barrack Obama as soon as I can and highlight for him what I`m sure he already knows.
Old white men sitting in these hearings are the ones who created it, she did not ask for it.
How many other undocumented immigrants out there will be found with not enough character and deported because they overstayed their visas or permits like Brigido?
If I were a betting man I would bet that Brigido had character to spare, and possibly more that these two characters in my diaries. But he was Mexican. And I refuse to say that it was unfortunate.
Marcos is correct in assuming that some who stood behind President Obama are pissed. I voted twice for president Obama on the assumption that Immigration reform was one of his top priorities as president. I now find that this president has no power, not even to stop deportations of my people.
This time around election day on 2014, I might be sleeping under the cactus tree and stay on the sidelines. Believe me, I am an expert of the sidelines during elections. I really have no other personal need then immigration reform to lick the ass of a politican for.
I am very sorry about Brigido, I really am. I am sorry boss, that we lost.
I am very glad for Aunt Zeituni and Ucle Omar for it is never humane to send a person into unknown exile and uncertain futures, alone and broke after spending most of their lives in this great nation.