My brother and his wife took in three girls whose parents were deported back to Mexico a few years ago. The parents had been here 11 years. The father had a drywall busines and was fairly well known and liked in the community. The parents were paying a lawyer in Denver to help them through the process of becoming citizens. As it turns out the lawyer was doing nothing but taking their money. This was just after 9/11 and the feds had to make a show of force. They barged in one night and took the parents away in handcuffs. Nobody could figure out why they didn't take the kids, but my brother later learned what the agents had said, and it looked like the separation of the family was intentional and meant to be an example to others. I'm not making this up. I really couldn't believe it when my brother and his wife started telling me the story. That was one of the most dispicable things I had ever heard. It just made me angry. Anyway, the kids were too young to take care of themselves and some people found out about it and called my sister-in-law, who is the secretary to the superintendent of schools. She called all her contacts, including the school lawyer. That is who found out about the corrupt lawyer in Denver. The parents are banned from ever coming back into this country. My brother and sis-in-law finally just made room for the three girls in their own home and they have been living there ever since.

All I'm saying is that when you stand up and yell 'Send them back!', sometimes it's a little more complicated than that. It just occurred to me that my brother and his wife could be felons if the proposed House law had been in effect back then. My brother and his wife are saints, not criminals.

Cody

I was born a long ways from where I was supposed to be. - Bob Dylan