ICE, ICE, Nanny
The suddenly DIY immigration-law Boston Herald splashed a phony heart-string puller story on its front page today. I’ll let the Hub tabloid give you the story:
A high-powered Hingham couple are fighting to free their beloved Belgian nanny from county jail, where she awaits deportation because her visa has expired.
That’s the gist of story. A 32-year old Belgian woman who worked as a nanny for a couple of biotech execs has been busted by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency for overstaying her student visa (I didn’t know student visas allowed you to work as a nanny) and ignoring an court order to leave the country. That order was issued in June last year, according to the Herald.
The biotech couple has hired a lawyer to bust the nanny out of jail. The Herald quotes him as saying:
“I have no problem with the focus being on detaining people who have serious criminal records, but the hypocrisy is that our political leaders want to help people like Victora Vannerom but (ICE) is locking her up.”
No, Mr. Lawman, hypocrisy would be saying that when some people break a law it’s okay, but when other people break the same law, it’s not okay. Considering that a judge ordered the nanny to leave the country in June last year, it would be pretty hypocritical for ICE not to execute the deportation.
One of the execs lets us know that
“I understand the need and the importance of homeland security and controlling our borders and detaining criminals, but Victoria has no criminal record. She exemplifies the kind of person we want as a U.S. citizen.”
What kind of person would that be? A visa overstayer? A rich dude’s nanny?
UPDATE:
Other bloggers chime in:
Hub Blog plays the “better things to do”-card against ICE. Tossing out illegal aliens is one of the top priorities for ICE, so I don’t really know what that better thing to do is.
Carpundit sides with the Feds, while noting that he knows plenty of immigration-law violators who have been released on their own recognizance. Was that after they violated a court order to leave the country?
