Slap on the Wrist For Modern-day Slave Owner in Mass
She should be serving prison time.Slavery is illegal in this country.
But until we take care of illegal immigration, get tough, stop catering to those who exploit us and begin seriously enforcing all immigration laws, what amounts to slavery in this day and age will continue to be smuggled into this country via people who are here to get what they can for themselves without having to embrace those pesky, old-fashioned American values of equality and liberty.
People want special treatment when it suits them, and equality when it benefits them.
They want what America affords them but are unwilling to live up to the standards that assure everyone enjoys the same.
This Princess, among millions of others people, come to America to leave their own countries where women (as well as most people) are repressed and subjugated, then see nothing wrong with breaking American laws, commiting fraud, false imprisonment of another human being and keeping slaves when it benefits them.
And so many will claim "racism" and "Islamophobia" whenever their crimes are exposed and they are held to account. Whenever they are challenged to hold to the standards that made America the place everyone wants to live in, the standards we want to live by, the standards everyone is expected to uphold.
But then, again, as I read on one demonstrator's sign at an pro-illegal immigration rally, "America Is Not a Country - It's a Continent".
So, perhaps, if people want to come here illegally - or legally - and break our laws and disregard what America has strived to stand for generation after generation, it's no big deal.
Welcome to the Post-American America.
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Judge Orders Saudi Princess Deported
BOSTON (Dec. 22)
BOSTON (Dec. 22)
A Saudi Arabian princess accused of breaking U.S. immigration laws by locking up her domestics' passports and forcing them to work for low pay was ordered to be deported, prosecutors said Thursday.
Hana F. Al Jader of Winchester was sentenced to two years of probation, the first six months of which must be served in home confinement, after which she'll be deported to Saudi Arabia, prosecutors said.
U.S. District Judge Reginald J. Lindsay also sentenced Al Jader, 40, to pay $206,000 in restitution to three of her former domestic servants, pay a $40,000 fine, and perform 100 hours of community service.
In September, Al Jader pleaded guilty to two counts of visa fraud for lying on immigration forms, and two counts of harboring an alien for keeping the two women at her house though she knew their visas had expired.
Hana F. Al Jader of Winchester was sentenced to two years of probation, the first six months of which must be served in home confinement, after which she'll be deported to Saudi Arabia, prosecutors said.
U.S. District Judge Reginald J. Lindsay also sentenced Al Jader, 40, to pay $206,000 in restitution to three of her former domestic servants, pay a $40,000 fine, and perform 100 hours of community service.
In September, Al Jader pleaded guilty to two counts of visa fraud for lying on immigration forms, and two counts of harboring an alien for keeping the two women at her house though she knew their visas had expired.
Prosecutors alleged that Al Jader forced two domestic servants from Indonesia to work long hours, while holding their passports in a safe.
Al Jader submitted fraudulent forms to the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia guaranteeing the women would work eight hours daily for $1,500 a month, they charged.
The women were actually paid just $300 per month after arriving in February 2003 to cook, clean and care for Al Jader's disabled husband and their children.
Al Jader submitted fraudulent forms to the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia guaranteeing the women would work eight hours daily for $1,500 a month, they charged.
The women were actually paid just $300 per month after arriving in February 2003 to cook, clean and care for Al Jader's disabled husband and their children.
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posted by jillosophy at 12/23/2006 01:02:00 PM
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