“The Miracle With Immigration”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
So Homeboy is a green card holder with a criminal record and he gets
\nfingered by the computer coming back to San Jose International from his
\ngrandmother’s funeral in Mexico. He gets asked all the usual questions,
\n fingerprinted and photographed. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
But when the officers peel back the cover of the polaroid there’s another
\nimage superimposed with his: an old lady sitting down. The officers,
\nrather confused, show him the photo. He declares that it’s his grandmother
\nand goes into shock. He’s sitting there shaking and praying, and doing the
\nrosarie and such and a couple of the Inspectors, apparently believing it
\nto be a ghost or a miracle (or something), join in.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Another inspector tries to calm Homeboy down and a fourth takes the photo
\nout to show the family waiting outside. They, like our man inside,
\nrecognize the old lady in the photo and begin praying and carrying on.
\n(Why the officers decided to pass the photo around in the first place, I
\nhaven’t a clue.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
One of the inspectors, being a heathen of sound mind, remembers that I had
\nbeen present when a 92 year-old lady was set up for a court hearing a
\ncouple nights earlier. He calls and I give him a description that fits
\nwhat he has infront of him near enough to provide a logical explanation of
\nthe event and reassurance that there was not, in all likelyhood, a ghost
\nin SJC. …Not that it helped calm the pious down any.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Now, you might point out that this is a cute story but that we really
\nshouldn’t be bothering 92 year-old ladies in the first place. I might very
\nwell agree, but would suggest that I personally had very little say in the
\nmatter and it really is above my pay grade. Grandma had a green card and
\nhadn’t been to the U.S. in five years, which is a definate no-no. That she
\ninsisted and persisted (even after some coaching) on answering all the
\nquestions in the wrong way and being difficult didn’t help. But we would
\nhave sent a 25 year-old to the judge so perhaps it’s only right that we
\nsend a 92 year-old to the judge.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
…Not that the judge is going to take her green card away. The truth is
\nthat enforcement is blind, but justice is anything but (in my particular
\narea of law anyways).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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