I wish that the reporters would spend more time talking about the countless lives harmed by illegal immigration including the deaths of California residents at the hands of repeat offender illegals.
Perhaps those stories won't fit into a headline, but that does not diminish the serious necessity of promoting the rule of law rather than tugging on heart strings.
Francisco Hernandez of Lennox has been featured before in The Daily Breeze, and the latest article about his struggles as an illegal alien trying to get by in California showcase how the media, working in tandem with Big Business and Big Amnesty, attempt to present the hardships of illegals and thus the need to allow for pathways to citizenship.
Harvard grad from Lennox squeezed out of job by immigration bureaucracy
graduate Francisco Hernandez sat at home in San Diego last week, unemployed and
watching television at 2 in the afternoon.
Poor baby!
The undocumented 2009 valedictorian of the Lennox Math, Science and Technology
Academy should have been teaching his students at the Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs
High Tech High charter school in San Diego.
Arrgh! "Undocumented." No — illegal! This media-enforced political correctness is very misleading. School children who arrive at their respective campuses without documents proving their residency are also considered "undocumented." If I went to the doctor's office, and the professional did not have any paperwork about me, I would also be "undocumented."
The context for this status has widely different meanings. When it comes to immigration, however, there is a great deal more at stake.
under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a program enacted by President
Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration in 2012, the 24-year-old
noncitizen was abruptly told last Monday he was no longer authorized to hold
his job.
Well. Well. Well. President Obama's illegal executive order to pander to illegals actually created more problems for him. If President Obama and his Democratic cohorts really cared about immigration, they would have done something during the first two years of Obama's presidency. His party controlled both houses of Congress, and he enjoyed unprecedented popularity.
Why did Barack Obama do nothing about immigration? Doesn't he care about Hispanics? Doesn't he care about the illegals in our country?
Doesn't he care about Francisco Hernandez?
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to Lennox in the first grade and grew up there, doesn’t blame school officials
for sending him home. His DACA work permit expired just weeks ago as he waited
for officials to approve a new work permit, which he is eligible for under the
federal Violence Against Women Act because his mother was a domestic violence
victim.
Does anyone still believe that the answer to many of our problems rests in the federal government? The feds are not even securing the border!
Citizenship and Immigration Services could take another three months, leaving
him without income to pay his rent, make his car payment and buy food.
How many law-abiding citizens in the state of California, and throughout the country, are struggling to pay their bills? What about them? When will the press and our elected officials start doing something about their plight?
limbo,” said Hernandez, who graduated from Harvard in 2013 with a bachelor’s
degree in psychology.
can do except worry about counting every penny that I have now. I’m scared I’m
going to lose everything I’ve worked hard for.”
What about the millions of legal residents who have worked hard, and yet their own representatives do not work to represent them?
thousands of young undocumented immigrants across the country who obtained
identification cards and work permits in 2012 requested renewals this year,
only to discover the system is overwhelmed.
quick fix for so-called “Dreamers,” allows undocumented immigrants who were
under 16 when their parents brought them to the United States — and younger
than 31 in June 2012 — to apply for work permits. “Deferred action” means they
would not likely face deportation.
As this article will show, President Obama's illegal actions for illegal aliens have not helped.
action during the 2012 presidential campaign remains just as contentious in the
2016 campaign, with a wide range of positions among the candidates. GOP
frontrunner Donald Trump wants to deport 11 million undocumented workers to
Mexico or their home countries, while Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton is
pushing to expand Obama’s program with more protections and a path to
citizenship.
Free press for Hillary Clinton, too? I wonder if the Daily Breeze had to disclose this article as an in-kind donation to the Hillary Clinton Campaign.
entered the U.S. legally in first grade, his visa expired and he eventually
returned to Mexico for a couple of years. When he came back to America, he
ventured through the desert to cross the border illegally.
He is an illegal alien — and an illegal by choice. Why are we feeling sorry for his plight? He created this problem for himself.
Hernandez grew up in a violent home in Lennox, where his abusive father was
prosecuted for beating his mother.
No one should suffer in a violent home. However, there are many young people in American communities who also endure physical abuse at home. Why are their needs being ignored and replaced with concerns about one illegal.
sometimes stood in the corner and covered his ears to quiet the screaming,
excelled in the classroom at Buford Avenue Elementary School, where he made the
honor roll, and at the Lennox academy, where he moved to the top of his class,
became student body president and earned a 4.0 grade-point average.
father — who was granted amnesty in 1986 — left his wife and children behind
for another woman.
Interesting. Amnesty of any kind does not bring families together, at least not every time, as claimed by amnesty proponents.
raised him, she was diagnosed with Takayasu’s arteritis, a rare condition
causing blood vessel inflammation that damages the aorta. She underwent surgery
and regular hospital visits, and she could not work.
of a massive stroke in October 2008, putting Hernandez’s college plans in
jeopardy. Fearing Hernandez’s promising future would be derailed, teachers at
his school rallied around him. Martial arts teacher Erica Delgado, her husband
and daughters offered to house Hernandez for the rest of the school year. He
accepted.
continued, Hernandez applied to several universities and was accepted at four
University of California campuses: Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, Davis and Berkeley.
financial aid, which he was not eligible for because of his immigration status,
Hernandez had no way of paying for college. He applied to Rice University in
Texas, near his sisters’ residence, but was turned down. Stanford, Yale, Princeton,
Northwestern and Notre Dame all rejected him.
last school to reply to his applications, sent a letter accepting Hernandez
into its student body. Harvard offered a full-ride scholarship.
stop there. Although on scholarship, Hernandez still needed an income, but he
could not get a job without proper documents. He resorted to dancing in an
exotic club to make money, and raising funds online to help him with expenses.
I read about what he went through. Terrible stuff. At the dancing club, it was tantamout to sexual assault what Francicso put himself through.
reform closely, and fearing he could be deported, Hernandez
submitted a petition under the Violence Against Women Act as an immigrant child
of an abusive parent with legal status. If approved, he would be granted
deferred action status, making him a low priority for deportation and allowing
him to apply for a work permit.
executive action on DACA in 2012, Hernandez’s VAWA petition was still pending,
so his immigration attorney at the time suggested he apply for a work permit
through DACA.
approved and he received a two-year work permit. A short time later, his VAWA
petition also was approved. With his work status appearing settled, he
graduated and was hired to teach Spanish at the San Diego high school. He
recently started his third year and hoped to eventually get a green card, but
that might take seven years.
Legal status is the ultimate goal for all immigrants – all the more reason why it needs to be done LEGALLY.
educator,” Hernandez said. “My goal is to be an educational psychologist.
That’s how I got through my problems. Ultimately, I want to become a school
psychologist in juvenile detention centers.”
recently applied for a DACA renewal without the help of an attorney, federal officials
denied his request, saying he now had deferred action status through VAWA, so
his work permit had to be processed under the VAWA provisions, said his current
attorney, Brooke Alexander Parr.
but it will take several months to secure the work permit.
How many out-of-work Americans are there? Why are they not getting special treatment or attention from the government, the political class, the media?
school’s director had no choice. He wanted to keep Hernandez on staff, but
could not without a work permit. Hernandez was placed on a leave of absence
Monday, and terminated Thursday.
How interesting – the school district and the school officials have to obey the law, but the President does not, and the illegals who enter this country without following the law somehow do not have to follow the law either.
The school did the right thing, but they also should not have hired Hernandez in the first place, since his status was unstable to begin with.
wanted to go to school to say goodbye to his students, but the director told
him it was best not to upset the students.
knowing I can’t even say goodbye and tell them how proud I am of them and to do
their best with the new teacher,” Hernandez said. “This completely sucks. They
tried everything. I appreciate it but there is nothing they can do. It’s not
their fault.”
This issue of fault cannot be ignored. Fernandez put himself in much of this choosing to remain illegal rather than seeking help, support, or deferment, even as an adult. The article focuses on the feelings, the pain. "I have been a wreck." I want the Daily Breeze to talk about the pain and frustration of legal residents who worked for years, played by the rules, passed all the tests, paid all the fees to become legal residents. How many sleepless nights did law-abiding migrants face when processing their own papers? The parents and the children in these families must have endured considerable pressure, setbacks, and upsets.
I would like to read those stories.
officials notified the students. Hernandez sent a letter to them, explaining
his immigration issue.
incredibly proud to be an educator, and I couldn’t have asked for a more
amazing group of students to have this semester,” he wrote. “Thank you for
inspiring me and pushing me. This all makes it so much harder for me to have to
step away for the time being.”
was accepted into the USC School of Social Work to pursue a master’s degree in
mental health and school psychology. He was not eligible to apply for federal
aid, so he deferred his course work for a year.
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Hernandez wanted to further his education, but he could not be bothered to solidify his immigration status. Ridiculous.
can get his job back once his work permit comes through, possibly in January.
system is broken,” Hernandez said. “Hardworking people like me who mean nothing
but the best, who see this country as their own, get screwed every day.”
The system is not broken, but rather not enforced.
That's the problem. With numerous opportunities to set his status straight, to reach out and get himself legal, Fernandez was pursuing higher degrees instead.
President Obama had Congress at his control to pass immigration policy, and did nothing.
His executive orders have only made the problem worse, and have done nothing to undo the fact that this county remains a nation of laws. The answer is not more disregard for our statutes and our borders, but enforcement and a proper established respect for our laws, our culture, and the rule of law.
Final Reflection:
Why is the Daily Breeze printing this article? Why is the Daily Breeze reporting on Francisco Hernandez? There are plenty of other poor minority youth in and around the South Bay — legal residents — who are facing tough trials and challenges.
Hernandez does not even live in Lennox or the South Bay area anymore, anyway.
This column is another classic example of Big Media putting together an easy tear-jerker while promoting Big Amnesty. The Daily Breeze could be reporting on the Torrance School Board race, or other races throughout the South Bay this year.
There are growing drug problems affecting South Bay youth of all colors and backgrounds, even in Torrance and Palos Verdes.
Most importantly, this article ironically exposes why President Obama's extra-legal maneuvering has actually created more problems for our country's immigration issues. If the President and his political colleagues, Democrat and Republican, really wanted to make thieving working out for the better, they would start by enforcing the existing law, not permitting families to put their children in these terrible plights. Furthermore, order security is a must, and requiring status as a condition of enrollment in public schools would also fix problems like the one described and fawned upon at length in the above article.
Ronald Reagan granted amnesty — and it actually helped break up Francisco's family.
President Obama issues executive amnesty, and makes matters worse for illegal aliens.
This illegal alien, Francisco, did nothing to fix his status. Nothing.
It's time to hold the media as well as our political class accountable.
Cities are for citizens, and they need our country and our countrymen's support more than illegals.