“Our immigration system is clearly devoid of compassion and common sense.”

Wrong, its focused entirely on common sense and purposefully…so that compassion cannot manipulate the system.

“a real deficiency of the immigration system that it expends resources trying to deport those immigrants who work hard and play by the rules.”

Lets remember that Tope DID NOT play by the rules! The ones who fill out the proper paper work AND wait in line(and the ones who people like Tope keep from entering into the country) are the ones following rules.

“Ms. Awe and her family are the type of immigrants who policy makers should want more of in the country, not less.”

Sounds like an elitist immigration policy to me. So do we turn down people have have followed all the rules, waited their turn, and never committed a crime in their life, or do we just let in people who are smart?

“Awe an example of broken policy”

could also read

“Aw an example of what happens when you break the law”

“Now is the time where I’m supposed to point out that illegal immigrants did indeed break the law. We can’t just allow anyone who wants to immigrate into the country! What about the terrorists? Surely al-Qaida is working on a way to enter the United States through the Mexican border as we speak!”

At least you realize your ignorance. We should reward the people who don’t break the law and come here legally over the criminal illegal aliens.

5:02, have you ever looked at the paper work or the lines? It’s a confusing system! They called her parents to deny they asylum prior to this incident. The parents went thinking they were proper representation, Because the children were on the same visa apparently they were supposed to go too, but this was entirely unclear. Because they didn’t attend they were put on this immediate deportation list. They’re being humiliated and their lives ruined for a mistake! Tell me you’ve never made a mistake when jumping through bureaucratic hoops?

5:02, you’re delusional if you think anyone “plays by the rules.” Do you think George W. Bush played by the rules? Studied hard, tested well on the SATs, went to Yale, Harvard on his own merit, pulled himself up by the bootstraps?

It seems like everyone cuts in line these days.

“a real deficiency of the immigration system that it expends resources trying to deport those immigrants who work hard and play by the rules.”

That’s the system’s job, idiot! Track down the illegals and deport them! Got a problem with that?

“play by the rules”

How can you write such a lie?

“Leaving a gigantic border relatively unsecure”

Absolutely a problem. Concertina wire is not that expensive, maybe even upgrade to razor wire. We should also bring the troops home from Germany, Japan and Korea so they can guard our own borders instead of some other country’s borders.

At least this case involves someone who might make more of a contribution to society than manual stoop labor or sweeping floors.

Awe is an example of the caliber of person we should be encouraging to LAWFULLY immigrate to the USA.

Of course as it stands, she broke the law and probably took the Pharmacy School slot that would have gone to a US citizen or legal resident.

Maybe you all should save a few tears for that unknown person who had their dream of attending the UW Pharmacy School shattered by Awe stealing the position.

Is Awe at least paying non-resident tuition?

I agree with 10:28am. We should worry about our own borders instead of someone else’s.

BTW, is it just me or does Ryan Greenfield look like Jake Gyllenhaal?

I think that Sweden would trade immigrant problems with the USA:

This man’s mind has loosened itself enough from the grip of Sweden’s suffocating politically correct Multiculturalism for him to see through the official lies about the level of immigrant violence against “persons of Swedish background”.

Hi there

Im writing from Sweden. Things are looking really bad here. Well they have been for years actually - I live just outside of Malmö. The incidents that is refered to are all with the involvment of young muslim males.

Here in the surburbs we have young muslim males cruising in their vehicles all the time. Burglaries have gone up explosively - my family and I have had 3 burglaries in under 9 months! There have been 3 recorded rapes in this little surburb of 5000 people, a lot of violence against young swedes and many more incidents. We are actually afraid to go out in the evening. That was not the case just 3-4-5 years ago. People feel unsafe and sometimes I talk to others about moving eventually, maybe Norway or some place else in Sweden.

1-2 months ago I was at the local office in Malmo and a foreigner drew a gun after an argument with a lady. He shortly threatned her with the gun pointing in her face and then ran away. I came just minutes too late and had the whole incident described to me by a shocked witness. For days I waited for the medias to write about it, but I have not seen anything yet. I cannot believe that it was not reported, but I am afraid that the journalists are taking it the next step. That is, simply not to write about the upcoming crime at all!

I think all the people of southern Sweden have a feeling of that something is totally wrong at the moment. So much crime, so much violence. It has become normal like a colleague said to me.

“We better get used to it, it is just a natural development in our modern society with the liberal values. We have to put faith in the politicians, they know about this!” Inside I get angry at this naive and hopeless position. Why does it have to be this way? Are things in Denmark and other parts of Sweden not normal? The experts say that crime is not rising, that it is the same as it has always been, people just record more. It makes me sick to see these experts week after week, month after month.

But since I am from Malmö I cannot remember having experienced things like these ever:

In Malmö, I saw a man, 35-45, attacked by two young males a year ago and decided that I was going to testify, but the man who was attacked did not want to go to court. He lost some of his teeth and I helped him picking them up.

I have seen 3 car accidents the last 2-2½ years and I find this strange, but each time there were young muslim males involved in the car crash. One time the went totally nuts and were about to hit a younger lady who was in the other car and without fault with a bottle. And when the ambulance came they were about to fight them and one of them eventually got arrested when the police showed up.

Every now and then shouting and pushing in the streets when the muslims get into arguments with each other. It’s seems so agressive and swedes get threatned when they dare stop and look at the argument.

Last summer some colleagues of mine had rocks thrown after them by some minor youths (10-11-12-13 years old). One of my colleagues told them to “Beat it” and was hit by a rock in the back when he turned around. He had to go to the hospital and could not work for 3 weeks.

My nephew, 19 years old who lives with my brother and his wife in Malmö, has been attacked 3 times in a short period of time. Each time he was jumped by a gang of 5-10 muslim males - sometimes much younger than he is. There are witnesses, but they are too afraid to step forward and to talk to the police and meeting in court. The second time he was beaten up so severely that he had to go to the hospital for a week. The police arrested some of the attackers the second time, but since there were “no” witnesses they could not go further.

My nephews younger brother, 14, tells tales of frightened swedish teenagers who are terrorized by muslim males in school. Every day some one gets something stolen. They all know who did it, but the teachers shut their eyes and the police won’t do anything about it.

He can tell of calssmates getting robbed when they go shopping in Malmö. Some of the muslim males even bring weapons to school and flash them in the classroom to both impress and schock the other children. The school has been set on fire a few times.

I know that there are many good muslims out there and that it is only a minority of them who are causing all these problems. But you cannot say anything these days - immediately people get suspicious and ask if you vote for SverigeDemokraterne, which I believe is a racist party with proven nazi-relations.

Fredrik

“Lets remember that Tope DID NOT play by the rules! The ones who fill out the proper paper work AND wait in line(and the ones who people like Tope keep from entering into the country) are the ones following rules.”

This pretends that there is an actual line, and that someone coming illegally actually prevents others “in line” from their god-given right of entering the United States. It doesn’t.

“Sounds like an elitist immigration policy to me. So do we turn down people have have followed all the rules, waited their turn, and never committed a crime in their life, or do we just let in people who are smart?”

As opposed to the current one, where you have to be wealthy just to apply, and have a better chance of being improved if you’re fairly rich?

Let’s face it, even if we could truly do something to completely shut off illegal immigration at the borders, there would still be visa over-stays. But perhaps we could take care of that too. Even if the only non-citizens in this country were legal, documented immigrants and tourists, there would still be something wrong with some of the immigrants. Since the first settlers arrived in America, there has always been at least one ethnic or racial group who was singled out as inferior to the rest of “us.” There will always be an “other.”

There seems to be something immoral about classifying by citizen and non-citizen before human being. I don’t think that the lottery of birthright entitles me to live in America anymore than it should forbid someone from moving here. I understand the problems associated by a mass influx of population, but to think that there is no room for exception is craziness. Tope has lived here since she was three! Despite the legal red tape - this is her home!

Imagine someone told you there was a mistake, that you were born in a foregin country to foreign parents and simply moved here when you were a toddler (essentially put yoursel fin Tope’s shoes). You apply for assylum to remain here but are denied. Just try and tell me that you’d willingly leave! You’d stay as long as you could and you’d insist on an alternate, a fair criterion for citizenship.

The government has no right to restrict immigration. Here’s why:

http://tinyurl.com/6k5hzu