As a follow-up to Fadi's post from last week, I present to you Ahmedyassine Boujrad, a Moroccan toddler separated from his parents for nearly two years, despite the fact that his father is a U.S. citizen.
The reason? His name allegedly matched that of a former Hamas leader assassinated by Israel in 2004.
How's that for American intelligence? When the story was reported in the international media, immigration authorities decided to expedite his case:
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/07/immigration.toddler.ap/index.html
Hanaan, the US is under no obligation to allow non-citizens of any age to enter the US, whether their parents are US citizens or not. The Father was free to go back to Morocco to be with his son, was he not?
You should at least make an effort to be objective.
Boujrad was living in Morocco in 1997 and engaged to Leila when he won an immigration lottery that allowed him to come to the United States. He married his wife in 1999 but was unable to bring her to the U.S. until 2005. She is now a legal permanent resident.
In the interim, Ahmedyassine was born in May 2004 in Morocco. Leila reluctantly left the boy in the care of her sister in the fall of 2005 when the visa allowing her to emigrate to the U.S. was about to expire. She assumed the paperwork problems for her son could be handled quickly.
This story isn't as clear as you make it out to be.
Craig,
On what grounds do you think they made their decision to separate the parents from their kid?
I already know your answer: "who gives a fuck?"
However, do you really think there was any reason for immigration to do that? I can understand if they returned the father, but a kid?
Programmer Clod-
The story is exactly as clear as Hanaan made it out to be-an egregious, heartless and criminal interference by a government out of control in the life of a toddler.
Disgusting that they did it, disgusting that you make your puerile attempt to spin it as anything but the cowardly outrage any fully sentient being can see it is.
Nidalio,
On what grounds do you think they made their decision to separate the parents from their kid?
The part of the article I quoted makes it very clear that the US had nothing to do with the separation of that family. He returned to Morocco to get married, two years later. Then he left his wife in Morocco and returned alone to the United States. She got pregnant (somehow) 4 years later, in Morocco. While he was still living in the US. Her child (and presumably his?) was born in Morocco. In 2005 she decided to join him in the United States, and left her child with a relative.
SHE DECIDED TO LEAVE HER CHILD WITH A RELATIVE.
The United States did not do that. She did that. The United States separated NOBODY.
Everything that happened, all down the line, was a result of decisions this couple made, on their own.
You can rightfully claim that the US should have issued the child a visa on humanitarian grounds, but you cannot accuse the US of any wrong-doing. If mistakes were made, the mistakes were made by the parents. Yes, maybe the US should have helped them out, but a lot of people could use some help and very few of them get it from a governmental bureaucracy.
Sorry, this part got snipped somehow from my first paragraph:
The man immigrated to the United States when he was UNMARRIED, after he won a visa lottery.
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