Mean old Marines. At least that’s the impression you get from the headline the communists at Military.com put on their story.
A Woman Drove into a San Diego Military Facility by Mistake. She Now Faces Deportation.
Aw, jeez. Well, sometimes life just comes at you the wrong way.
The ‘military installation’ in question just happens to be the Marine Corps Recruit Depot at San Diego, or MCRD as it’s fondly (once you’re a graduate) known.
It’s a dang shame the military is picky about who wanders up to or onto their installations, but that’s how base security rolls.
So what exactly happened, and who is this poor victim?
An undocumented immigrant whose family claims she drove into the entrance of a San Diego military base by mistake could now face deportation.
Last month, Ana Camero, 64, took a different route home from her job in La Jolla as a restaurant dishwasher. After stopping at a gas station on Washington Street, she mistakenly drove into the Marine Corps Recruit Depot near the San Diego airport.
Following routine procedure, military personnel at the entrance asked for identification so she could turn around. But Camero did not have proper documentation. This prompted a call to the U.S. Border Patrol, and Camero was detained, her family said.
“Anyone can make a mistake,” said her daughter, Melissa Hernández. “She wasn’t a threat, it was just a wrong turn.”
So she didn’t have the proper documentation, and the gate guards did what they were required to do.
But this is where they should have left the story if they wanted one iota of sympathy out of anyone for this apparently hard-working illegal alien’s plight.
Because a couple of paragraphs later, her daughter continues the tale of woe. So, she realizes her mom is late and then gets a call from base to come pick up her mother’s car. What’s next just frosts my shorts.
…She first thought the authorities had taken the vehicle because her mother did not have a driver’s license, but she said she never expected her mother to be detained. “It never even crossed my mind,” she said.
Excuse me, whut?
Mamacita has been driving without a license? The daughter doesn’t say Mamacita left it at home or forgot it at her job. She says she doesn’t have one.
As her illegal immigrant mother is driving herself all over San Diego without a driver’s license, which no doubt means that she doesn’t have a lick of insurance either, right?
How long has Señora Camero been in the States again?
…Camero, originally from Mexico, has lived in the U.S. for more than 20 years, and her family says she has no criminal record. She is currently in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody pending removal proceedings.
Oh, yay again. Twenty frickin’ years and her family pinkie swears she’s not a criminal. She’s only here illegally to begin with and has been driving without a license and insurance in a populated urban environment for God knows how long.
California is a state, mind you, where every illegal can get a driver’s license.
…AB 60, passed in 2013, allows all Californians to apply for a driver’s license, even without proof of their immigration status, if they can establish their identity and California residency, pass a driving test, a vision test, show proof of insurance, and any other driver’s license requirements. However, AB 60 did not expand access to CA ID cards. Residents who cannot obtain a driver’s license (which can serve as a form of ID) – perhaps because they do not drive or do not have access to a car – and who cannot provide proof of lawful presence in the United States have been unable to obtain a CA ID card (a non-driving alternative form of ID available to other California
And she couldn’t even be bothered to do that?
But she hasn’t done anything, like, bad, you know. And this was just a ‘mistake.’
Her pastor says it’s even worse than that.
…“It’s an injustice,” he later said. “Because it wasn’t something she planned, she just drove in and didn’t know what to do.”
Well, oops.
That was my sympathy meter pegging.
