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IMDB rating: 6.00 Plot: A group of air crash survivors are stranded in the Mongolian desert with no chance of rescue. Facing a brutal environment, dwindling resources, and an attack by desert smugglers, they realize their only hope is doing the impossible… building a new plane from the wreckage of the old one. |
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Do you feel sorry for this illegal or was justice served?
He was one of 107 Mexican men who had started out that morning in shackles at the York County Prison and had been placed by immigration officials on a chartered plane at Harrisburg International Airport for a flight to the border. The journey was part of a now daily exodus that has made the south-central region of Pennsylvania a critical hub in the federal government’s efforts to deport undocumented immigrants.
Now 37, Mr. Cruz had not been in his native country since crossing illegally more than two decades before. He was leaving behind his parents, siblings, a young daughter he hardly knew and a seven-year prison stint in Virginia that followed a 2002 night of binge drinking and a hit-and-run crash. He had no clothes except his brown prison jumpsuit and a pair of blue slippers.Mr. Cruz, who became a devout Christian during his time in prison, plans to continue his religious studies and spread the word of God as a Mennonite missionary in his homeland.When Mr. Cruz crossed the border as a teenager in the 1980s, it was "kind of easy," he said last month while awaiting deportation. The United States had far fewer border patrol agents than it has today.
His parents were already living in Los Angles, and Mr. Cruz wanted to join them. Most of his four brothers and three sisters would make similar journeys.
After a decade living on the west coast, the family decided to move to Harrisonburg, Va., to get away from the growing dangers of gangs and crime in Los Angeles. In Virginia, Mr. Cruz found work in a poultry factory, where he put turkeys on hooks before they were slaughtered.
By then, Mr. Cruz’s older brother had developed a drinking problem. Mr. Cruz, a regular churchgoer, initially resisted such temptations. But he soon started drinking with his brother.
"It was just little by little," he said. "Then I was an alcoholic."
The pair also smoked marijuana, despite admonitions from their parents. Mr. Cruz attended rehabilitation programs, but he didn’t have any success until he left his family to live on his own in Phoenix.
There he met Rosario Mendoza, a devoted Christian who helped him recover from his addictions. She also persuaded him to reconcile with his parents and return to Virginia. Mr. Cruz brought Ms. Mendoza with him, and the couple had a daughter named Paula.
Mr. Cruz also reconnected with his old group of friends, and he again started drinking and using drugs.
In November 2002, an intoxicated Mr. Cruz tried to drive home after watching a boxing match. He struck a woman’s car and kept driving before crashing again. He woke up in the hospital with a broken shoulder and neck and chest injuries. He later learned that the woman in the car had been pregnant and suffered a miscarriage.
During his first night in prison, Mr. Cruz tried to hang himself with a sweater. Guards put him under suicide watch.
At the prison health clinic, a nurse gave him a Bible and told him, "I’ll be praying for you."
Her words provided comfort. Mr. Cruz resolved to change. He pleaded guilty to criminal charges and accepted a 10-year prison sentence and the loss of his visa to stay in the United States, which his parents had helped him get a decade before.
At Green Rock Correctional Center in Chatham, Va., Mr. Cruz immersed himself in Christianity, attending Bible study and theology classes sponsored by Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. He served as a translator at weekend services for other Latinos in the prison.
No, I do not feel sorry for him! Justice was served! Had the laws been enforced anytime during those many years of breaking the laws and before he killed the baby, that baby would be alive today!
This man had no right to be here in the first place! Ask the Mother that lost the baby if justice was served!!! Walk a mile in her shoes!!! An innocent child lost their life because we were to weak to enforce our own laws!!! This just goes to show how much pain and suffering is wrought on the American Public because we are willing to overlook a law that seemingly hurts no one! Well ask that Mother if she was harmed and realize that if the laws were enforced then this man would not have been here in the first place and her baby would still be alive!!! Again I say walk a mile in our shoes!!! The shoes of those 70,000 American Citizens that have lost their lives at the hands of an illegal alien over the last 8 years!!! Feel our pain and suffering!!! In truth justice was not served but at least something was done!!!
Evie B | Nov 08, 2009
No. I feel justice was served. He is, after all, an ILLEGAL immigrant.
Tom | Nov 07, 2009
Both.
Serendipity | Nov 07, 2009
Feel sorry for him?!…why it seems he`s got a bright future in sunny Mexico as a Men-o`-nite missionary…seems better things await him in Mexico than here…So have a safe trip "Mr. Cruz"-courtesy of U.S. taxpayers….hope your familia joins you soon down there.
Starchie Bunger | Nov 08, 2009
If he has truly accepted Christ as Savior, then he is forgiven of all sins (past, present, future). However, he is still responsible for any laws he breaks, period. So yes, justice is served in this instance.
Panzer D | Nov 08, 2009
And ?? He broke the law many many times and always got a brake. He doesn’t have to leave his family . They should go with him. I don’t understand how they always say they were trying to keep the family together. No excuse for parents to abandon their children ,let alone 8 of them. Ever. They started all this
trixy | Nov 08, 2009
Depending on who posted the question, to say one feels sorry or compassion for an illegal can get you burned. To answer that justice is served depends on where the answerer stands within the posted content of the board.
It is clearly understood that the question’s poster has no compassion for illegals and in the case of illegals committing crimes, justice can never be served. Even if the illegal payed for his crime with his life you would still call for the family to be uprooted.
I see this article as the way prisons are supposed to be run. The accused was tried and found guilty. It seems to me that his obtaining a visa as part of his path to citizenship means nothing, only true Americans are perfect, mistakes or accidents just don’t happen.
He seemed to be a "model" prisoner doing for others and himself while learning about his self.
The only real difference between Mr. Cruz and most other criminals is his immigration status and that difference called for his deportation after serving his sentence.
As for what else that is in this article, I would like to point out the beginning (in part)
"HIDALGO, Texas — "Pablo "Paul" Peralta-Cruz stepped up to the U.S.-Mexico border just as the sun was falling to the horizon last month, casting a dull light over one of the busiest international crossing points in southern Texas.
Before traversing the invisible line, marked by a plaque on a bridge over the murky waters of the Rio Grande, Mr. Cruz looked back."….
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09312/101 1375-454.stm
I know that Mr. Cruz has remorse, the accident that changed his life has taken a toll on his entire family. I know that last turn to look around I have experienced it and remembered for almost thirty years.
The article you used also covers, "Danyel Montes, a 30-year-old house painter who spent five months in New York City’s Rikers Island prison after a fight with his girlfriend" because "A neighbor in Brooklyn called 911 after overhearing a loud argument between him and his girlfriend this year, he said. At the time, he had just started his own house painting business."
The third person is, "David Solis, 23, who was arrested at the Applebee’s restaurant in Ross last month and charged with presenting false identification to police."
"When Mr. Solis came to Pittsburgh last year, he found an affordable apartment in Garfield and work in several local restaurants. On the night of Oct. 1, while cleaning the Applebee’s in Ross, he accidentally triggered an alarm, he said. Police came. They arrested Mr. Solis and turned him over to ICE officials."
I see now why you did not mention or use these two men, their crimes were insignificant and the punishment unreasonable (to me) for the crime they committed.
But of course there are two sides to every story, sometimes things that matter families are oblivious to, go unsaid or in some cases covered up to hide the part played in the crimes.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,514 3,660194313,00.html
I did not say I was caught or tried for the crime I spoke of but thanks for the vote now read the article again,
"He pleaded guilty to criminal charges and accepted a 10-year prison sentence and the loss of his visa to stay in the United States, which his parents had helped him get a decade before."
Chief Whachusa | Nov 08, 2009
Most people express remorse and are sorry after committing crimes that they get caught for. A lot of prisoners find God. I don’t care about that. He is here illegally, he caused the loss of a life. Deport.
terresa | Nov 08, 2009