How come illegal who boasted he is undocumented & unafraid is now whining about immigration hold its unfair?

[Johnny]

How come illegal who boasted he is undocumented & unafraid is now whining about immigration hold, how it is unfair, even though he begged and pleaded with police to arrest him, why is he crying now about it and whose fault is it that ?Reporting from Durham, N.C.—
Two weeks ago, Uriel Alberto interrupted a state legislative hearing in North Carolina and declared himself an undocumented immigrant.

"I am undocumented and I am unafraid," Alberto, 24, told a North Carolina House of Representatives immigration committee in Raleigh. "I refuse to be bullied and intimidated by this committee and choose to empower my community."

Now, thanks to an online petition campaign, Alberto is a rallying point for supporters of the Dream Act, which would give permanent resident status to undocumented students brought illegally to the U.S. by their parents. Supporters have launched a Facebook page, a Twitter hashtag (#FreeUriel) and online petitions; they've also staged rallies outside the jail, the News and Observer of Raleigh reported Monday.

"He took a brave stand for immigration rights, and now he may get deported for it," said a posting on the Facebook page. Alberto's online supporters are urging others to call or write federal immigration authorities to lobby against deportation.

Alberto, a native of Mexico brought to the U.S. by his parents at age 7, waged a 10-day hunger strike in the Wake County Jail until Monday. In a jailhouse interview, he told WGHP-TV of Greensboro, N.C., that he stopped the hunger strike because his mother was concerned about his health.

A federal immigration hearing in Alberto's case is scheduled for Thursday in Charlotte, N.C. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed an immigration hold on Alberto after his Feb. 29 arrest.

Alberto’s hearing comes several months after President Obama announced last summer that immigration authorities would place greater emphasis on deporting immigrants with serious criminal records. Alberto has past convictions for speeding, driving while impaired and driving with a revoked license.

"This is the land of second opportunities," Alberto told WGHP. "I'm grateful for being in this country. I love this country. This is my country. I consider myself a Southern boy."

Alberto and two other undocumented immigrants belonging to an advocacy group called NC DREAM Team were arrested in connection with disrupting a meeting of the North Carolina House's Select Committee on the State’s Role in Immigration. Alberto, the only one of the three with a police record, was the only one hit with an immigration hold.
Among the issues that a federal immigration judge might consider in the case are whether Alberto has been in the U.S. for at least 10 years, has good moral character and has a child who is a U.S. citizen who needs care, the News and Observer reported. Alberto has a 2-year-old son who lives with the boy's mother in Florida, according to the Independent Weekly newspaper.

Ron Woodard, a member of the group NC Listen, which opposes illegal immigration, told WGHP that Alberto should be deported and then attempt to reenter the U.S. legally instead of "cutting the line."

"If he isn’t deported for this, he's making a mockery of our rule of law,"’ said Woodard, who attended the hearing at which Alberto was arrested. "He's basically standing up there, saying, 'I've broken the law. There’s nothing you can do about.'"

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/natio...8430.story

[workingman]

Looks like he needs to be made an example of.

[Sassy]

It seems to me that if these illegal immigrants that was brought over here at a young age should have had enough education/ common sense to go and at least start on becoming a legal U.S. citizen. You mean to tell me that an illegal student in college had no idea that they should be working on becoming legal. This is a bunch of crap. You can not tell me that they did not know that they were illegal by the time they were in middle or High school. They just want automatic citizenship without having to work for it. They are too busy crying about how unfair the government is being, yet they get more than enough of a free ride from the government. Legal Americans work hard at obeying the laws what makes them think that they can keep breaking them. I just don't get it.

[RETUSAF]

You don't see this stuff in other countries, like Japan. When these people stood up and called out, we are illegal, they would be shipped out of the country the same day.

America better get a handle on this stuff. When the tipping point is hit and enforcement comes into play, it's going to be ugly. I for one, don't care. The faster they are deported the better.

[vladimir r makarov]

undocumented+unafraid. not very smart either.

he deserved what he got