Margarito Mejia says his children should be allowed to stay in the United States because they were abused by a relative in Honduras.
Mejia lives in the United States legally, under a rule that granted Hondurans work permits after a 1998 hurricane. U.S. Immigration agents caught his son, now 11, and two daughters - now 14 and 13 - sneaking across the Rio Grande into Texas in 2005. The children were detained for two days before they were released to await a hearing.
Under immigration law, refugees are eligible for asylum if they have been persecuted because of race, religion, national origin, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. The law does not mention sexual abuse.
Dad seeks asylum for kids, saying they were abused -- Newsday.com (broken link)
If this is true, while I feel sorry for this guy and his children, there are hundreds of our own citizens' children being molested on a daily basis. If this case becomes a precedent, every foreigner on the planet will come kicking the door down claiming molestation and demanding citizenship.
We cannot save the world . . .
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