Let's see just how successful and competitive Arthur Mkoyan is back home, with his American 4.0... could be a good measure of how useful an American education is.

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The student, regardless of his grade point average is here illegally. Other students, whether US citizens by birth, naturalized or went through the proper channels and applied for a student visa deserve the seat at the university before an illegal alien. Skipping the line, and thumbing your nose at the rule of law should not be rewarded.

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My ancestors dismebarked at Ellis Island 125 years ago. All you had to do to get into this country back then was fog a mirror. So long as you were disease-free, you were in. And you could take free English language lessons in NYC in the evenings. I am so tired of the amnesiacs in this country hijacking this debate. My ancestors sought the same dream as these people. Good for this young man. May his plight be a lesson to his peers to remake this nation into something we can be proud of again. It's easy to bash "illegal" immigrants - among the most vulnerable in our population- and avoid getting angry at Wall Street and all the greedy corporate execs who make our lives miserable.

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein is considering a private bill that would allow Arthur and his family to remain in the U.S. I wrote an update to this story here.

Arthur is asking that people email him letters of support that he can forward to Sen. Feinstein.

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for all of those who are kicking up a fuss that this poor kid didn't follow the rules and "cut in line" - please note the difference between undocumented and illegal.

he was undocumented because he was involved in an active refugee claim.

that does not make him illegal. he was well within the protection of the law while he pursued his secondary education.

he didn't "cut in line" or somehow steal resources from others. he was following the rules as they were laid out for his particular case.

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Let me try to understand this. We give sanctuary to Cuban militants who murder a planeload of innocent civilians, but deport a smart, hard-working student. Forgive me, but it seems that he is exactly the kind of person we want in this country. Senator Feinstein's bill should give him a scholarship, too.

It seems George W. Bush's compassion is limited to embryos, fetuses, right-wing terrorists, long-suffering millionaires, corrupt war profiteers and disgraced neocons. Everyone else can go to hell.

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Let me try to understand this. We give sanctuary to Cuban militants who murder a planeload of innocent civilians, but deport a smart, hard-working student. Forgive me, but it seems that he is exactly the kind of person we want in this country. Senator Feinstein's bill should give him a scholarship, too.

It seems George W. Bush's compassion is limited to embryos, fetuses, right-wing terrorists, long-suffering millionaires, corrupt war profiteers and disgraced neocons. Everyone else can go to hell.

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Illegal is illegal .
Illegals sponge off our taxes and are breaking our laws. They gotta go home now, we cannot afford them anymore with a deep recession coming which will be with us for years.
Property tsxes skyrocket due to illegal's children attending school, charity care is exhausted , employers pay no taxes on them , they do not pay taxes and yet Americans are swamped with taxes for people who think this country's laws are a joke . Illegals cost a lot to the average American family and we cannot afford them in an economic downturn.

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Wonder if these "Christians" ever pondered WHY they are seeking ASYLUM. Asylum...naw...just send em back...they won't be killed...hmmm thou shalt not kill? naw...send em back...They're not children of God...they're illegal aliens...Did THIS mother and child pay their taxes?...obviously not...send em packing! Were they trying to become citizens legally? Naw..the article said so! send these demons back! Send these illegal immigrants back!

Gawd Bless America...Screw everyone else!

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I am a Christian.What of it ?

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Yadda yadda
[Report this comment] [Ignore this user] Posted by: anneliese-nyc on Jun 10, 2008 7:32 AM

"Illegal is illegal .
Illegals sponge off our taxes and are breaking our laws. They gotta go home now, we cannot afford them anymore with a deep recession coming which will be with us for years.
Property tsxes skyrocket due to illegal's children attending school, charity care is exhausted , employers pay no taxes on them , they do not pay taxes and yet Americans are swamped with taxes for people who think this country's laws are a joke . Illegals cost a lot to the average American family and we cannot afford them in an economic downturn. "

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[Report this comment] [Ignore this user] Posted by: PickleBarrel on Jun 10, 2008 8:10 AM

"Your logic is unassailable. Your assessment of cause and effect is spot on! All our problems come from those illegal alien demons!

You must be a christian! Only a christian has such clarity of vision! You must be proud of yourself!"

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Posted by: anneliese-nyc on Jun 10, 2008 10:37 AM

I am a Christian. What of it ?
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***Why YOU might not be a CHRISTIAN.
They were first called "Christian" at ANTIOCH. Applying the law of first mention anneliesse-nyc, it will do you and most Americans who call yourselves Christian to find out who the "they" were who first got labeled 'Christian' at Antioch. Why were they called "Christ Persons?" What is the significance of Antioch in the historical context of the lynched young radical teacher/prophet known today as Jesus? He was homeless at birth, became a young immigrant in Egypt, went on by age 30 to become a super liberal and before his 35th birthday was framed and lynched, by the religious right of his day. His Crime? He and a small group of everyday people went about everywhere teaching, healing and doing good. He successfully resurrected and made alive and real what the conservative religionists had stifled in legalisms and memoralized in religious dead works and dared anyone to 'eff' with. Sound familiar?

Are you a CHRIST Person? Do you even want to be one? Consider Romans 12:1,2.

According to the Bibles stored in most American homes and Churches most American "Christians" are as far from being Christ persons as kittens born in an oven are from being biscuits.

The mischaracterization really isn't your fault. It just rained on you as a circumstance of being born who you were, where you were and being taught what you came to believe. Today you have opportunity to take responsibility for the rest of your life and begin correcting the errors of your fathers.

Your yadda yadda post contains not one single thought from the mind of Jesus the Christ whose disciples were first called Christ persons or "Christian" at Antioch.

About you and those who told you to call yourself Christian, Jesus had this to say: " In that day many will say to me, I preached in your name, and I did this and that in your name. And I will say to them, depart from me you workers of "lawlessness," I never knew you."

To hell with the song of the fat lady, that's when it's over fo real. No mo do ovas.

I pray that a word to the wise is sufficient. What are you going to do with John 3:16 and "whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved," rip them out of your Bible?

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