{"id":139,"date":"2006-04-05T05:33:35","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T13:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=139"},"modified":"2006-04-05T05:45:14","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T13:45:14","slug":"a-tale-of-three-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/a-tale-of-three-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Three Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This excellent piece<\/a> over at PoliPundit reminds me of my Mexican friend LS:<\/p>\n

Consider the case of two men, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oswaldo,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Vikas.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n

My Christian friend in Mexico has tried three times to get a visa to visit the US. He’s not trying to get up here to work or live. Just to visit two or three weeks, or less.<\/p>\n

But the officials at the American Consulate in Hermosillo (Sonora) reject him as soon as he answers “Yes” when asked if he’s ever been in the States illegally.<\/p>\n

His father brought him to the US as a minor.<\/p>\n

He lived here long enough to learn English quite well.<\/p>\n

Now that he is an adult (a ripe 22 years old or so), he refuses to do the easy thing: Lie.<\/p>\n

So the Americans send him on his way, not even listening to the details of his case.<\/p>\n

Thus no US visit for LS. Not even to attend his childhood friend’s wedding. That friend is RR, my oldest son.<\/p>\n

God bless LS for his commitment to His Law as well as to man’s laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This excellent piece over at PoliPundit reminds me of my Mexican friend LS: Consider the case of two men, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oswaldo,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Vikas.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d My Christian friend in Mexico has tried three times to get a visa to visit the US. He’s not trying to get up here to work or live. Just to visit two or … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-2f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}