I am really confused about this. On 1/8/05 8:10 PM, "Barbara Lickness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Omar Jamal and his wife and children will be paying a > VERY high price for the crimes he committed. It will > deny them U.S. immigration and eventual citizenship. > This situation will throw their immediate future into > chaos for awhile. According to the Pioneer Press, his wife and children are U.S. Citizens, so they won't face deportation. http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/10594906.htm > I think it is pretty obvious that gaining immigrant or > citizen status in the United States is now and has > always been very important to many people around the > world. I think when you add to that scenario the fact > that they come from a country that has been destroyed > by tribal infighting, war and rebels the stakes are > that much higher. If you don't gain immigration to the > United States and are forced to go back to or remain > in the war torn country you are trying to leave, it is > unspeakably frightful. In some cases, it means you > will be killed just for trying. Omar is not the first > immigrant to meet this fate. See, this is what I don't get -- he had already been granted asylum by CANADA in 1991, so apparently he'd already been out of danger for seven years when he made these misstatements on his U.S. Immigration papers. If he'd already been granted asylum in a safe place, why would he lie? So he could attend college in Memphis? Or was something threatening his Canadian status? I'm having a hard time connecting the dots. [...] > I think it's very sad that he will pay such a high > price for choices he made when the United States was > in a much different place than it is now. I feel sorry > that he and his family will be deported or worse that > he will be incarcerated here. It's easy for us who > sit in nice warm toasty houses in one of the > wealthiest countries in the world to condemn Omar for > what he did, but none of us are standing in his shoes. [...] The Pioneer Press story indicates he isn't looking at jail time -- if he's deported, he would be sent to Canada. They have nice warm toasty houses there, too. Mike Skoglund // Financial District, New York // Bancroft, Minneapolis REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:mpls@mnforum.org Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
