Family to be deported back...

[freakyfreaky]

to Armenia after 15 years in U.S.

http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/deportationfamily02192008-CR.html

[freakyfreaky]

Re: Family to be deported back...

Family deported, 13 year old daughter remains in U.S. http://www.azcentral.com/12news/news...192008-CR.html

[crusader1492]

Re: Family to be deported back...

I find their plight a bit exagerated. They can't afford a ticket? They will have to live on the streets?

If that is the case, it seems that their life in the USA was not that good either. They have nothing to show for their 15 years in the US?
Most likely they are exagerating for sympathy purposes...hoping the government will let them stay.

Anyway, they might be in for a pleasent surprise once they reach Armenia. It is not the same country that they left.

[freakyfreaky]

Re: Family to be deported back...

Yeah, except that they won't have their daughter. And, who knows why they left in the first place if they were seeking asylum.

That they would live from paycheck to paycheck in the U.S. is not that far-fetched. Seen a foreclosure sign lately?

But, if they were exploiting their daughter (i.e. can't afford the ticket) to garner sympathy or financial gain, then they are truly sad.

[Sip]

Re: Family to be deported back...

Very sad and scary indeed.

[crusader1492]

Re: Family to be deported back...

Yeah, except that they won't have their daughter. And, who knows why they left in the first place if they were seeking asylum.

That they would live from paycheck to paycheck in the U.S. is not that far-fetched. Seen a foreclosure sign lately?

But, if they were exploiting their daughter (i.e. can't afford the ticket) to garner sympathy or financial gain, then they are truly sad.

They may have been seeking "political asylum", but I would bet that was because it was the only means for them to gain citizenship. In other words, their claims were probably phoney...nothing against them, btw. This method of gaining US citizenship is commonplace from people all over the world...it just did not work out this time for this Armenian family.

Anyway, I hope they do well in Armenia...like I said, Armenia is not the same place that it was back when they left in 1993.

[freakyfreaky]

Re: Family to be deported back...

Crusader,

How old were you in 1993? And, have you ever been to Armenia between 1991 and the present and, if so, how many times, when, and, for how long on each occasion?

I am wondering how someone, who may have never been to Armenia, knows so much about how it has changed in less than a score.

[crusader1492]

Re: Family to be deported back...

I visited Armenia in 1995 after college for two weeks (I actually met and took a picture with LTP who was president at the time). I revisited 10 years later and from 2005 - 2007, I have been back and forth stayng a cumalative time of about 9 months.

How about you? What is your experience with Hyestan?

[freakyfreaky]

Re: Family to be deported back...

Blood and marriage.

[freakyfreaky]

Re: Family to be deported back...

another family to be deported to Azerbaijan from UK, does not want to go to Armenia. http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/displ...pNodeId=144922