The young woman climbed into a van with a man she had paid $6,500 to take her out of El Salvador and smuggle her into the United States. Destination? Columbus, where her brothers settled a few years ago to work. Maria's journey began just after immigration reform imploded in Congress. She crossed undetected in July 2007 and quickly learned that her new way of life is full of contradictions. She and others working here illegally can pay into Social Security but can't collect benefits if they are disabled, retire or die. They can collect workers' compensation benefits if they are injured on the job but can't legally work.
07 Sep 2008 @ 09:17 am
8 comments
From Daniel Boon - 07 Sep 2008 @ 09:47 pm
In Reply to tiredofit: you could easily sell a kidney or a lung.
From BW - 07 Sep 2008 @ 07:15 pm
Better get out now, beaners! I know most of you won't because you would need a functioning brain to figure out that one day there are going to be a lot of people who want to shoot you. I'm sure quite a few are ready now.
Can't collect shit if you got shot dead.
From LM - 07 Sep 2008 @ 03:16 pm
me too! cry baby story Tried to get a visa but couldn't so came anyway Because we are suppose to take them because they want to Sounds like a spoiled rotton child mentality ENGLISH ONLY, and we don't care if you don't like it. WE LIKE IT! I am sick of and don't care to listen to babble.
From Anonyma - 07 Sep 2008 @ 03:04 pm
I could puke.
From tickedoffchic - 07 Sep 2008 @ 02:34 pm
This Maria person was obviously wealthy enough to go to college in El Salvador. She should have finished college there. Too bad her brother was arrested and deported for DUI. I guess it's not a crime in El Salvador. I'm sooooo sorry the illegal Latinos don't like the English only movement. Legal immigrants learn English, why can't they? I just LOVE these a** H***s who come over here and think they can change OUR laws, at will. They're too lazy and cowardly to make changes in their own countries.
From Daniel Boon - 07 Sep 2008 @ 01:38 pm
its illegal to be illegal, aka a crimminal. so BOO HOOOO to the whiners and bleeding heart's.
From tiredofit - 07 Sep 2008 @ 01:29 pm
I couldn't cough up $6500 if I needed to...how do they get this kind of money...geeze in their 3rd world cesspools that a lot of $$$$
From cudzuqueen - 07 Sep 2008 @ 01:17 pm
There is nothing racist about going after a group of people who have blatantly defied our laws. I'm sick of that feeble argument which is only intended to make white America back off. It's not getting the intended results they had hoped for...we will not back off. We are going to keep on demanding that these leeches and felons leave our country...they can choose how they leave, whether it be of their own volition or not, but they WILL leave.
I love the tipster who contacted America's Most Wanted...that was a stroke of genius!!!!
From Daniel Boon - 07 Sep 2008 @ 09:47 pm
me too! cry baby story 
