News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Mexican boy secreted by mother into U.S. for cancer treatment dies

By Betsy Blaney
Associated Press
Feb. 27, 2007
07:35 AM

LUBBOCK, Texas - An 8-year-old Mexican boy whose mother illegally brought him into the U.S. for cancer treatment and then struggled with immigration laws has died, officials said.

Months after being deported to Juarez, Mexico, Luis Carranza's mother was permitted to return to the U.S. to be with her son until his death Thursday at his grandparents' home in El Paso, Child Protective Services officials said.

Protective services and the mother had shared custody of Luis.

I grieve for this mother's loss. She broke the law by entering illegally without regard to the reason. However, this does illustrate that we, the US, must do a better job of handling and expediting requests for visas, etc. There are legitimate reasons for coming to the US, but the bureaucracy is so snarled and backlogged as to make such requests vain and an exercise in futility. Congress must do a better job at managing our government. -mm

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