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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Powell standing by Obama in 2012 presidential race
WASHINGTON (AP) ? Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a longtime Republican, is sticking with President Barack Obama in this year's election.
He told CBS' "This Morning" he respects fellow Republican Mitt Romney but thinks he's been vague on many issues.
Powell said the president got the United States out of Iraq, has laid out a plan for leaving Afghanistan "and didn't get us into any new wars."
He praised Obama's economic performance, saying, while difficult choices are ahead on taxes, spending and budgetary policies, "steadily, I think we've begun to come out of the dive and we're gaining altitude."
Obama later called Powell to thank him.
Powell, a retired general, was also a White House national security adviser and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Powell says he's still a Republican.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
A Very Long Engagement?
Emily Yoffe
Photograph by Teresa Castracane.
Emily Yoffe, aka Dear Prudence, is on Washingtonpost.com weekly to chat live with readers. An edited?transcript of the chat is below. (Sign up here?to get Dear Prudence delivered to your inbox each week. Read Prudie?s?Slate columns?here. Send questions to Prudence at prudence@slate.com.)
Q. Sister-in-Law Wants Us To Postpone Our Wedding : My fianc? and I got engaged a few months back. A few months prior to that, his sister had announced her pregnancy. We felt it was a respectful length of time and announced our engagement. She was immediately seeing red and started being passive-aggressive to me. The problem? Our wedding is four months after her child's birth, and she feels like it should be at least a year later. My fianc? seems swayed by her argument. I've told him that even though she will be traveling for the wedding, there isn't much difference between traveling with a 4-month-old or a 1-year-old child. His sister is also already talking about having her second and third child soon. I asked him if we're expected to wait five years until all of her bundles are grown up before we can get married. I think she's just jealous because she feels her thunder has been stolen. She was the only girl growing up, and a spoiled one at that. I don't talk about the wedding in front of any of his family and try to keep all conversations focused on her to placate her. Am I wrong not to bow down and to keep our April wedding?
A: How derelict you have been. Of course you should cancel your wedding plans?your fianc?'s sister might still be breast-feeding! It's so insensitive of you to think someone should get married under those circumstances. After her baby is born, ask immediately for your future sister-in-law to create an online spread sheet showing her fertile days and the times she has intercourse. That way you can anticipate her reproductive schedule and plan your nuptials accordingly.
Alternatively, unless your fianc? finds the wherewithal to stand up to his crazy sister, you might want to reconsider whether she should become your never-to-be-sister-in-law. "Respectful length of time" to announce your engagement? Someone needs to clue in the sister that she doesn't have some lock on good news and other people's lives go on irrespective of her milestones. Stop placating this idiot (again, another poor child with a whacked-out mother) and tell your fianc? her behavior and demands are out-of-line and you aren't going to play along anymore.
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Q. Help! My Wife Wants To Be Naked but Won't Let Me: I've been married for 20 years, and we're now both in our late 40s. For the past three or four years, my wife has taken to hanging out around the house naked. She defends it as a more natural state of affairs, and reluctantly agreed to put towels down on the couch, etc. She's less diligent about closing blinds ("there's nothing wrong with nudity, it's natural"). I've tried to be supportive, and researched naturism, even going so far as to find a couple of clothing-optional clubs in the area. When I told her, instead of being pleased, she accused me of just wanting to go there and ogle other naked women! This isn't my thing, and I was just trying to be supportive, and this is the thanks I get. The problem is that during all my research trying to understand her point of view, I had really gotten interested in trying out a naturalist club. I'm just not into the mundane nude-at-home experience. How do we reconcile our different perspectives?
A: I went undercover to a nudist club for Slate, and let me assure you and your wife there is nothing less sexy than a whole lot of middle-aged naked people. I bet you could testify that having your wife let it all hang out on the couch while you're watching the presidential debates probably makes you focus even more on federal gas-drilling policies. Since you are accommodating her clothing-optional policies, ask her to sit down at the computer with you and read about the nudist clubs in your area. The websites will make clear these are ogle-free zones. And I assure you, most of the flesh will make you believe that as far as fashion is concerned, the Taliban has it right. Neither of you have to make a commitment to becoming naturalists, but since she's halfway there, ask if she'll agree to spend a day at a club with you with the understanding she can head to the car and slip on her underwear any time she is uncomfortable. If she refuses, then you should drop your own drawers. Maybe having to pick your pubic hairs off the couch will convince her to take the nudity elsewhere.
Q. My Boyfriend and I Are Related!: My mom asked me to accompany her to a distant relative's 60th birthday celebration. She has a big family and we never really interacted much with her side, so I thought I'd go to meet some of my relatives. While I was eating dinner I looked up and saw my boyfriend's mother. I was surprised to see her and went over to say hi. Suddenly, my mom came over and began chatting with her, introducing me as her daughter. It turns out that my mother and my boyfriend's mother are actually first cousins! My boyfriend and I had been dating for a year and we were starting to talk about our future together. I don't know what the laws are, but even if it's legal for us to marry, I feel creeped out by the idea of my mother-in-law also being my second cousin. My boyfriend is devastated and says it doesn't matter. I feel heartbroken with the idea of breaking up but I feel like it's not right. Would it be completely gross if we stayed together?
A: I think it would be ridiculous for you not to stay together. My understanding is that the laws on cousin marriage are only about first cousins; I think they should be repealed because this is not the state's business. There's nothing to be devastated or creeped out about?the whole thing is actually kind of funny. If you and your boyfriend eventually decide to marry, you can get genetic counseling before you have children, which will likely be reassuring to you both. But no one should do more than shrug about kissing second-cousins.
Q. Ethics of Spying on Your Spouse: My husband is a sex addict, he's been to therapy and tells me his addiction is under control?he swears he is no longer cruising the Craigslist "casual encounters" or emailing escorts and women seeking casual sex. Trust obviously has been breached, and I need to know that finally, he is being honest and truthful with me. I already caught him lying to me once since his therapy ended, and although he swears it won't happen again, I don't trust him. I want to install a stealth computer-monitoring program on the P.C. he uses?my question is whether this kind of intrusion is justified by the circumstances, it is something I would never do if my husband didn't have a history that makes me unsure if my health is at risk and my marriage is a sham.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
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One reason many people get into Internet Marketing is so that they can have more free time. However, many people find themselves sinking more and more time into their online business before they realise that they have exchanged one job chained to a desk for another, chained to a computer.
Is it really possible that you can get more free time through Internet Marketing? All the big names tell us it is possible, but how can it happen?
Well firstly, you can pay someone else to do the web designing, search engine optimization and so on. However, for some of us, that may not be practical. Oftentimes people start an Internet business because they don't have a lot of money and need a cheap and effective way to get their business up and running.
It is entirely possible to earn money whilst doing nothing with Internet marketing. Firstly, if you have automated your website and it is ranking high in the directories then it will run on auto-pilot.
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One of the best methods I know of is to set up an affiliate program. This allows other people to promote your product and be paid a commission for each sale. If they don't make any sales, they don't get any commission. Obviously, you need to pay them enough commission to make it worth their while. A few dollars as the commission level is not going to motivate anyone for anything, so you may need to offer 40%, 50% of even higher depending on your business and product strategy.
This kind of percentage will get your potential affiliates much more excited about selling your product. Be wary though of raising the price of your product in order to make up the affiliate payment. You may end up pricing yourself out of the market and making no sales!
There are many different options for running an affiliate program. You can host the software on your web server and run if from there, or you can pay a monthly fee for someone else to host it for you. You could also join a program such as Paydotcom or Clickbank that handle everything for you, and all you need to do is sit back and enjoy the profits.
In fact, for many marketers, Clickbank is a real favourite because it truly allows you to automate your business! They handle everything for you ? taking payment, paying the affiliate and paying you, allowing you to really put your business on auto-pilot and achieve the elusive dream of making money whilst you sleep.
Affiliates do equal more free time and more money. They will promote your product for you, earn you money, with minimal effort on your behalf. Investigate today how you can run your own affiliate program and benefit from this fantastic leverage on your time and resources.
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Giants lead Cardinals 7-0 in Game 7 of NLCS
San Francisco Giants' Hunter Pence hits a three-run double during the third inning of Game 7 of baseball's National League championship series against the St. Louis Cardinals Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
San Francisco Giants' Hunter Pence hits a three-run double during the third inning of Game 7 of baseball's National League championship series against the St. Louis Cardinals Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
San Francisco Giants' Gregor Blanco slides safely past St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina during the second inning of Game 7 of baseball's National League championship series Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, in San Francisco. Blanco scored from second on a hit by Matt Cain. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Matt Cain throws during the first inning of Game 7 of baseball's National League championship series against the St. Louis Cardinals Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
San Francisco Giants' Matt Cain hits an RBI single during the second inning of Game 7 of baseball's National League championship series against the St. Louis Cardinals Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy congratulates Gregor Blanco (7) after scoring from second on a hit by Matt Cain during the second inning of Game 7 of baseball's National League championship series against the St. Louis Cardinals Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Hunter Pence drove in two runs with a slicing, broken-bat double during a five-run third inning that chased Kyle Lohse, and the San Francisco Giants took a 7-0 lead over the St. Louis Cardinals through six innings in the decisive Game 7 of the NL championship series Monday night.
Marco Scutaro singled twice and walked, and Pablo Sandoval had a run-scoring groundout in the first that gave him an RBI in five straight games to match a Giants postseason record. Home run king Barry Bonds set the mark in 2002.
Matt Cain worked out of a jam behind a strong defensive effort and extended San Francisco's lead with a two-out single in the second. A Giants pitcher has driven in a run in three straight games. During that same span, St. Louis has scored one run as a team.
Cain left after 5 2-3 innings of five-hit ball. He struck out four and walked one in another solid start for San Francisco's ace.
Lohse left after he walked Buster Posey to load the bases with no outs in the third. Pence then connected on a pitch from reliever Joe Kelly that broke his bat.
The ball hit his bat twice more to create an awkward spin that fooled shortstop Pete Kozma, who first broke to the right. Kozma could not recover to field the ball slicing to his left and it went for a double. A third run scored when center fielder Jon Jay misplayed the ball for an error.
The hit highlighted a run-scoring blitz that put the Cardinals in a major hole and whipped an orange towel-twirling crowd at AT&T Park into a frenzy.
The winner of the game between the past two World Series champions will host the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday night.
After some light rain during batting practice, sunshine broke through and a rainbow formed beyond the outfield, providing another scenic San Francisco backdrop.
And once again, the Giants started strong.
Cain struck out Jay on four pitches before Carlos Beltran blooped a single to center to open the first inning. Beltran stole second with two outs ? moving to 11 for 11 for his career in the postseason, the most steals ever without getting caught in a postseason career ? but Cain got Allen Craig to pop out to third.
In the bottom of the inning, Pagan and Scutaro singled to put runners on first and third. Pagan scored on Sandoval's groundout to give the Giants a 1-0 lead, although San Francisco squandered chances for more when Lohse quickly retired Posey and Pence.
The team that had scored first is 5-1 in the series. The one loss came in Game 3, when St. Louis rallied to beat the Giants 3-1 with Cain and Lohse on the mound.
Cain, who threw a perfect game against Houston earlier this season, was hardly at his dominating best ? but his defense helped clean up his mistakes.
Yadier Molina singled and David Freese walked leading off the second. Molina moved to third when first baseman Brandon Belt made a diving stop on Daniel Descalso's grounder, throwing from his knees to get Freese at second. After Cain struck out Kozma, shortstop Brandon Crawford leaped to catch Lohse's soft liner to keep St. Louis scoreless.
Cain singled to center to score Gregor Blanco from second in the bottoming of the inning. Lohse cut off the relay throw and fans roared to their feet in celebration.
Crawford added another RBI in the third inning when Kozma fielded a weak grounder and threw home late, and Pagan grounded into a fielder's choice to put San Francisco ahead 7-0.
Lohse left after allowing six hits, walking one and striking out one.
Adding to St. Louis' sourness, San Francisco appeared to get some revenge on Matt Holliday for his hard and admitted late slide into Scutaro in Game 2 that strained the second baseman's left hip. Cain hit Holliday in the upper left arm on an 0-2 pitch in the sixth. Holliday just jogged to first.
Lefty Jeremy Affeldt got Descalso to pop out with two runners on for the final out of St. Louis' sixth.
About the only thing the Cardinals could rely on was history ? at least recent history, anyway. St. Louis overcame a 6-0 deficit to stun the Washington Nationals in the decisive Game 5 of the division series.
Only this time, the stakes were even higher ? and the deficit even larger.
The Giants were going for their 20th pennant while the Cardinals were chasing their 19th. In winner-take-all Game 7s, the Cardinals are 11-4 and the Giants are 0-5.
Since 1976, 14 home teams have won a Game 6 to force Game 7, with 13 of the 14 going on to win Game 7, according to STATS LLC. The lone loser was the 2006 Mets against the Cardinals. Beltran struck out looking with the bases loaded on Adam Wainwright's curveball for the final out in New York's 3-1 loss.
The only other time the Cardinals opened a 3-1 lead in the NLCS came in 1996, when they lost to the Atlanta Braves in seven games. San Francisco, which never faced an elimination game in winning the 2010 World Series title, is 5-0 when pushed to the edge this postseason.
St. Louis has won its last six games when facing elimination.
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JC Chasez -- Yes, I Went to the Wedding (Not JT's Wedding) | TMZ ...
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JC Chasez was one of THREE members of *NSYNC who was NOT in attendance at Justin Timberlake's wedding this weekend ... but he watched two OTHER people say "I Do" ... TMZ has learned.
Just like Joey Fatone and Lance Bass ... JC didn't make the trip to Southern Italy to see his former boy-bandmate JT tie the knot to Jessica Biel.
Instead, JC had more important plans -- his brother was getting married in Orlando, FL.
We're told JC had planned to go to his bro's wedding for over a year? -- and had previously informed Justin it was a top priority he just couldn't miss.
As we previously reported, Joey spent his weekend in L.A. (it's unclear if he was even invited) ... and Lance was at an event in San Diego.
We do know Chris Kirkpatrick WAS in Italy at the time of Justin's wedding -- but we still haven't seen pics of the singer INSIDE the ceremony.
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Mass shooting reported in Wisconsin: 7 hospitalized, suspect remains at large, police say
A tactical unit responds to the shooting in Brookfield, Wis. (AP)
A shooting near a mall in Brookfield, Wis., on Sunday left at least seven people hospitalized, according to local news reports, and police are searching for the suspected shooter.
WISN-TV first reported a "mass shooting" at the Azana Salon & Spa across the street from the Brookfield Square Mall at around 11:15 a.m. local time.
According to police, the suspected shooter is a 6'1" black male weighing approximately 200 pounds and last seen wearing a grey sweater, blue jeans and a white and black backpack, and was driving a black 2003 Mazda Protege.
Officials initially described a "mass casualty" situation, WISN said, though to this point no fatalities have been confirmed. According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the mall has been placed on lockdown, as has a nearby country club.
A spokeswoman for Froedtert Memorial Hospital told the Associated Press that said four victims were being treated for non-life threatening injuries, and that three more victims were expected; an official at the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department told news service that deputies are looking for an active shooter.
SWAT, fire and rescue officials responded to the scene, and a Flight for Life helicopter landed in the mall's parking lot.
In August, Wade Michael Page, an Army veteran with white supremacist ties, opened fire at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., killing six and injuring three others before shooting himself.
And Sunday's shooting took place less than a mile from a hotel where a gunman opened fire during a Living Church of God service in 2005. Seven people were killed and four wounded in that shooting.
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Monday, October 22, 2012
Catchings and Fever win first WNBA title
Indiana Fever forward Tamika Catchings, left, tries to make room as she is defended by Minnesota Lynx guard Monica Wright in the third quarter of Game 4 of the WNBA basketball Finals in Indianapolis, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Indiana Fever forward Tamika Catchings, left, tries to make room as she is defended by Minnesota Lynx guard Monica Wright in the third quarter of Game 4 of the WNBA basketball Finals in Indianapolis, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
Indiana Fever guard Shavonte Zellous, left, congratulates Erlana Larkins on being fouled in the second half of Game 4 of the WNBA basketball Finals against the Minnesota Lynx, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)
Minnesota Lynx guard Seimone Augustus, center, shoots between Indiana Fever forward Erlana Larkins, left, and guard Erin Phillips in the third quarter of Game 4 of the WNBA basketball Finals in Indianapolis, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) ? Tamika Catchings finally won her long-awaited WNBA championship.
She scored 25 points to help the Indiana Fever win their first title with an 87-78 victory over the Minnesota Lynx on Sunday night.
Catchings, who was the MVP of the Finals, averaged 24.8 points in the series, which the Fever won 3-1 over the defending WNBA champions.
"It's been an amazing journey," said Catchings tearing up. "We've had ups and downs, ins and outs."
Erin Phillips added 18 points and eight rebounds while Shavonte Zellous and Briann January each had 15 points.
The Fever won even though No. 2 scorer Katie Douglas missed most of the series with a severely sprained left knee. Douglas checked in with 3.2 seconds left to a loud ovation.
"We sure didn't make it easy," Douglas said. "We went three games with Atlanta, three games with Connecticut. This team played amazing in these Finals."
Catchings had won three Olympic gold medals and an NCAA championships at Tennessee in 1998, but never a WNBA one. She had been in a position to clinch at home before. The Fever led Phoenix 2-1 in the best-of-five WNBA Finals in 2009, but the Mercury beat the Fever 90-77, took the series back to Phoenix and won the title at home in Game 5.
This time, Catchings took it home with college coach Pat Summitt looking on in the crowd.
Indiana led 63-58 at the end of the third quarter. Minnesota cut Indiana's lead to 70-67 on a jumper by Maya Moore, but Phillips scored on a drive past Moore, got a defensive rebound, then found Shavonte Zellous for a 3-pointer from the left corner to give the Fever a 75-67 lead with 4:58 remaining.
Indiana led by at least five points the rest of the way. A 3-pointer by January gave Indiana an 80-72 lead with 1:18 to play. Minnesota coach Cheryl Reeve was called for a technical with 57.6 seconds remaining, Catchings made the free throw and the Fever took an 81-74 lead. Zellous made two more free throws with 27.2 seconds to play, and Fever fans began celebrating.
Seimone Augustus, Minnesota's leading scorer in the playoffs, was held to eight points on 3-for-21 shooting. Lindsay Whalen scored 22 points and Moore added 16 points for the Lynx, who were vying to become the first team to win consecutive titles since Los Angeles in 2001 and 2002.
Moore picked up her third foul with 6:13 left in the second quarter. Reeve, who was fined for her jacket-tossing tantrum in Game 2, became animated again while disagreeing with the call. As the crowd erupted, Reeve waved hello and made the motion for a technical foul.
This time, Reeve's antics didn't help much as in Game 2, when her team pulled away from a tight contest after her technical foul for a convincing win. Minnesota tied the game three times in the second quarter, but the Fever closed with a 7-2 run, including a 3-pointer by Phillips, to take a 47-42 lead at halftime. Whalen scored 14 points in the first half to keep the Lynx in the game, often scoring on uncontested drives. Minnesota hung tough, despite Augustus shooting 2-for-13 in the first half.
Indiana started the second half on a 9-4 run, including two buckets by Catchings, to take a 56-46 lead.
Minnesota came right back. A driving layup by Moore cut Indiana's lead to 56-54 and forced the Fever to call timeout.
Minnesota tied the game on another drive by Moore, but the Fever responded with a 3-pointer by Catchings and a basket by Jessica Davenport to push the lead back to five by the end of the quarter.
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Sunday, October 21, 2012
Collection of Top 10 Free Online HTML and CSS Code Editors ...
Online HTML and CSS Code Editors:?HTML and CSS are the most familiar terms for every web developer. With the increase in no. Of internet users; every business is making a space on the internet through websites and webpages. This business trend has significantly raised the need of web developers in the market. With the flooded wave of designers; everyday technology is kept updating. A lot of efforts are made by the technical geeks to liquefy the sophisticated tasks of web developers. Among the various other complicated tasks; code editing is one of the most frustrating and hassle filled job.
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Pregnant women can eat grapefruit ? | Health and Fitness Tips ...
Pregnant women can eat pomelo? Pregnant women eat grapefruit What are the considerations?
Pregnant women eat pomelo benefits
1, Grapefruit contains vitamin C, B2, P, folic acid, and calcium, chromium, phosphorus, iron, potassium and other minerals. grapefruit vitamin C content much higher than other fruits, with Victoria C 57 mg per 100 grams of grapefruit meat, which is 10 times the pear. Of pregnant women need multivitamin supplement, on this point, pregnant women can eat grapefruit.
2, Diabetic pregnant women eat grapefruit benefits:
The fresh grapefruit meat containing insulin-like ingredients, it is the ideal food for diabetic patients. Therefore, pregnant mothers with diabetes, grapefruit course is the best fruit.
3, Anemia in pregnant women eat grapefruit benefits:
Anemia is a more common phenomenon of pregnancy! Grapefruit with the effectiveness of the prevention of the symptoms of anemia and to promote the normal development of the fetus. Grapefruit can enhance physical fitness, and easier to help the body absorb calcium and iron.
4, Colds pregnant women eat Grapefruit benefits:
Pregnant mother colds troublesome thing! Because of fear of medication on the fetus and the consumption of Grapefruit can be effective in treating colds, relieve sore throat. Dry fall and winter climate, the pregnant mother is also for mouth ulcers, sore gums distress it? Grapefruit can reduce anger inhibition of oral ulcers, might as well eat some Grapefruit!
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1, Grapefruit cold, the body Deficiency pregnant women should not eat more.
2, Hypertension in pregnant women should not eat pomelo, especially grapefruits.
3, If pregnant women not to eat Grapefruit, while taking the drug in order to avoid overdose. Bitter grapefruit should not eat.
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A Strange Review: Seven Psychopaths ? Strange Herring
Here?s the problem with something called Seven Psychopaths: you pay your ransom of a ticket, another $350 for confections, you sit through more movie trailers than there are actual vehicular trailers, you try and glean the dialogue through all the whispering and giggling and texting and sexting, and you walk out the door thinking to yourself ?
There was one psychopath too many.
But then again, what can?t you say that about? You go to work. You go to a wedding. You go to a baptism. And you walk out thinking ?
There was one psychopath too many.
Nevertheless, I thought to my own self, how bad could this film be? I mean, it has Christopher Walken. And psychopaths. And the writer-director is the brilliant Martin McDonagh, author of the terrifying The Beauty Queen of Leenane as well as the award-winning screenplay In Bruges. As some of you know from my references elsewhere on this blog, I love Irish and Irish-American drama ? Synge, O?Neill, O?Casey. (Forget Shaw, Goldsmith, and Sheridan, whose Anglo roots or pretensions ruined them.)
The?real?Irish took the language that was foisted upon them, kneaded it through the crucible of their history, and sent it back into the world carrying the burden of their dreams, re-tuned with an incantatory lilt that is unmistakable and immediately identifiable. At their best, the Irish rank with the ancient Athenians in their ability to amplify a sense of almost preternatural foreboding, as if the ceiling were about to crash down on your head; the oppressive affliction that can be both family and faith; the weight of an ineluctable and evil fate.
At it?s best, Irish drama will mess you up for life.
And McDonagh is true to his heritage, crafting characters whose lives are forever soiled by choices thrust upon them, or bad juju fed to them with their mother?s milk. Who better to write about psychopaths?
You could say it?s the Psychopath?s Moment in the culture. We have Anders Breivik and KSM and Dexter and the elections. There?s even a new book out called The Wisdom of Psychopaths. This guy over at the Daily Beast delivers this flatfooted assessment:
The science behind all of this is fairly intuitive. Psychopathic traits have been given the Darwinian OK throughout the history of human evolution, which helps validate Dutton?s argument that these qualities can be pretty important tools if properly used. The ?seven deadly wins? of psychopathy that he identifies (ruthlessness, charm, focus, mental toughness, fearlessness, mindfulness, and action) are all arrows we want in our quiver. And come to think of it, they also happen to be the very character traits that engage and?dare I say?inspire us when we find ourselves shamelessly hooked on whatever cadaver-filled cable drama is animating our vicarious lives this week.
But Dutton?s assertion that we can learn from psychopaths might be a bit of stretch. It?s a provocative thesis, to be sure. But by pushing this line a bit too hard, he sometimes falls victim to the pervasive habit among popular psychology writers to turn every insight into a self-help strategy. Fortunately, that doesn?t make his treatment of the subject any less interesting.
You can scroll through the rest later, but frankly the review reads like a 12-year-old?s report on a book that should never have been assigned in the first place.
With all that said, I decided finally to suck it up and check out the 11:20 showing of Seven Psychopaths,?which fit in nicely with my Saturday-morning ritual at Panera Bread, which consists of waiting for Mr. Panera to get back to me about my suggestion for a new kind of bread, called simply ?bread.? I mean, I get to the counter, and suddenly I?m in a Monty Python sketch.
?May I help you??
?Yes. I?d like some bread, please.?
?Well, we have rye, amaranth, kamut, pumpernickel raisin, whole wheat, multigrain ??
?Just bread. I?d like some bread.? Which I don?t consider an unreasonable request. Given that the word bread is in the establishment?s name.
But she looks at me like I?m a psychopath.
Speaking of which.
Where was I? Oh, yes ?
So Martin (Colin Farrell) is an Irish screenwriter living in Hollywood and suffers from a wee bit of a drinking problem. But you knew that. Well, everyone else in this story does, and it becomes something of a running joke, except to his girlfriend, who abandons him after a particularly garish exchange. Martin?s latest script is called Seven Psychopaths, and isn?t he having a time coming up with seven worthy of screen time.
Martin?s best friend (sorta kinda) is Billy (Sam Rockwell), who has a whole bunch of ideas of his own for Martin?s screenplay. For example, how about a psychopath who just takes out ?middle-to-high-ranking members of the Italian-American Mafia. Or the Yakuza.? It?s almost ripped from the headlines, as the real Seven Psychopaths, the one we?re watching, starts off with a bang, as two hit men staking out a female mark are themselves offed by the masked ?Jack of Diamonds? serial killer.
Who is this killer of killers? Will he or she make it into Martin?s script?
But the Irishman?s at a crossroads, both spiritually and as a writer. He doesn?t want to craft just another shoot-em-up action flick. He wants to explore other themes, like peace and love and reconciliation. So a Buddhist would be a counterintuitive kind of psychopath. As would someone who?s Amish. Or a Quaker.
A story about a Quaker who hounds the born-again-in-prison murderer of his daughter is definitely a winner with Martin. The question then becomes, was the story Martin?s? Or Billy?s?
Or was it Hans? Hans (Christopher Walken) is a 63-year-old con artist who steals dogs in upper-crust neighborhoods only to return them to grateful owners for fat cash rewards. His wife, Myra, to whom Hans is absolutely devoted, is stricken with cancer, and begs Hans to get a job that ?just ain?t stealin?.?
?Doin? what?? Hans asks.
?A gov?mint job,? she replies.
?Gov?mint. A job that just ain?t stealin?. Gov?mint.?
Yeah, we get it.
Turns out Hans is friends with both Martin and Billy. In fact, is that shih-tzu Billy carries around with him one of the fancy dogs Hans has stolen from a would-be psychopath named Barney (Woody Harrelson)? Barney is certainly convinced it is, and has his henchmen chase down Hans and Martin to the kennel where the dogs are kept until it?s time to return them to their rightful owners. But before the bad guys (or, I should say, the badder guys) can put some metal in Hans?s and Martin?s heads, who walks in like the Lone Ranger, or Zorro, or the Green Hornet (take your pick) but the Jack-of-Diamonds killer, who offs Barney?s twosome and disappears into the Southern California scenery.
Well doesn?t this provide more fodder for Martin?s imagination? It seems you can?t throw a rock without hitting a psychopath in L.A. They soon start knocking on Martin?s door. Seems Billy, in another attempt to co-write Martin?s screenplay, has taken out an ad out in the trades: ?Wanted: Psychopaths.? One day Tom Waits shows up with a bunny rabbit in his arms and a story about how he and his wife decided to hunt down and murder serial killers.
But wait? Could this be the Jack-of-Diamonds killer? Could he be the Jack-of-Diamonds killer?
And of course there?s the Vietnamese ?priest? who hires a hooker to help him blow up a veterans? conference as part of a long-simmering plot to avenge the death of his family in the My Lai massacre. But is he real? Or part of a dream sequence Martin?s cooked up? Which psychopaths are in Martin?s head and which one?s are coming after him and his friends?
?This story has a lot of layers,? Hans says at one point.
Indeed it does. Worlds within worlds. But it all comes together as Martin, Hans, and Billy try and resolve this strange screenplay within a screenplay. Will it end with a bloody shootout, as Billy hopes, with Barney and his crew as the villains who ultimately bite the dust, literally in the desert? Or will Martin find a way to end the bloody cycle of vengeance for his psychopaths ? both real and imagined?
And why did Billy steal Barney?s dog?
At first you?re likely to analogize this Matryoshka doll of a plot to a Quentin Tarantino film ??Pulp Fiction comes to mind immediately. But it wouldn?t be right. Yes, there?s a lot of funny repartee, and even some pop-culture references, which are Tarantino?s forte. But McDonagh always has more on his mind. There?s a lot of religion here too.
?Hans is an old-time Christian,? says Billy. ?Not like those Fox News F?ks.? Hans often comforts himself with thoughts of heaven, especially in light of his beloved Myra?s health problems. But at a signal point in his spiritual life, he begins to doubt the existence of an afterlife. What if there?s no heaven, but just a great, gray room? A terrible place.
?Like England?? asks Martin.
?Not that bad,? replies Hans.
Hans asks Martin if he believes in heaven.
?I put a lot of heaven and hell in my stories. But I don?t know what I believe,? he says. This is the real writer, Martin McDonagh, talking about his own work certainly. Despite the farcical elements and absurd characters, the subtext of his scenarios is always whether there is such a thing as redemption in this life and the next, especially when you know you?ve done the very worst thing in the world and can?t quite wipe the blood off your hands.
And in the hands of a less-gifted writer, you wouldn?t care a lick about these goony, self-destructive characters. But McDonagh doesn?t let you off the hook by distancing yourself from their absurd predicament. Sure, the stupid shih-tzu that crazy Barney coming for is a MacGuffin, you know, a device to bring all the wackjobs into one room. But Jesus is here. Real sacrifice. Real self-giving. There?s a charm and a pathos to these lunatics. It shouldn?t be this way, but it is. There should be another story where these characters reside, one without all the cursing and the gore and the pointless death of loved ones. But this is where their maker has placed them.
So, do they lay down their guns, or do they fight for their lives? ?Gandhi was wrong,? says Billy. ?It?s just that nobody?s got the balls to come out and say it..?
No one will ever say that about Martin McDonagh. Not politically correct, he. Women are not treated very well here, but that?s actually part of the discussion Martin has about his own screenplay. When Hans points out how quickly the females are killed off, Martin becomes defensive. ?Women have it hard in this world,? he says in explanation
?Yeah, women have it hard,? replies Hans. ?But I know some who can at least string a few syllables together.?
I wouldn?t be too quick on the trigger to guess at McDonagh?s politics, however. No right winger, but no bleeding heart either, is my surmise. He?s his own thing. An empathetic realist, perhaps.
Also real is the big-boy language of this film, which is appalling. Not quite Kevin Smith ?OK, I?m leaving the theater now? appalling, because not explicitly sexual, but Quentin Tarantino as fed to David Mamet appalling. And there will be blood. Lots of it. And explicit scenes of violence, as in throat cuttings and head blastings.
And there are boobies.
If that?s a no-go for you, don?t go.
But I was in awe of what McDonagh was able to wring out of such B-material. It?s not the stuff of Oscars, perhaps, but the performances dance very close. Walken is a wonder as he bing-bongs dialogue with the unpredictable cadences of a man just learning the language. His Hans is lost somewhere between heaven and earth, and you believe him when he speaks of Jesus as Lord, even though the very next second he?s mouthing something grossly profane. Farrell is a perfect stand-in for the real Martin, a poet who can also be a bastard. Woody Harrelson is a potent mix of dog-loving eccentric and sociopathic killer.
But Sam Rockwell is from another planet. His performance is tailored to be as surprising as his character, and you want both to hug him and shoot him alternately.
So I guess what I?m saying is, I was wrong. There wasn?t one psychopath too many. It seems we?re all psychopaths of one kind or another, often because we?re blind to the ones in our very midst. At least that?s what Martin ? both the character and the filmmaker ? seems to be saying. Judge not lest ye be judged crazy too.
McDonagh should know. Only a psychopath could have fashioned this fantastic farrago of a tale.
May his tribe increase.
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
Separated by law: Families torn apart by 1996 immigration measure
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In a nation built by immigrants, they thought they could pursue their American Dream ? with loved ones at their side. Instead, they're living an American nightmare that's tearing families apart and forcing Americans into exile.?
Chris Xitco, a native of Los Angeles, never imagined that after marrying his wife Delia in 2002 and trying to legalize her, she'd end up barred by U.S. officials for life, with no pardon even possible for 10 years. She now lives south of Tijuana, Mexico, alone with the couple?s two small children.
T.J. Barbour, a native of San Diego, has been struggling every day to care for a 10-year-old son, since his wife Maythe was deported and then barred from the United States in 2011 for what could be 20 years.
In central North Carolina, Anita Mann Perez has been financially ruined trying to raise three small children since her husband Jorge was exiled for 10 years in 2007. Now she's moved to Mexico to join him.?
Across the country, as illegal immigrants have settled into communities, they have met Americans, fallen in love, married and had children. But when Americans have voluntarily stepped up to sponsor their spouses for legal residency, believing this was the right thing to do, they?ve been shocked to discover their citizenship does not trump mandatory penalties the spouses must face. Far from it.
These penalties, which ?bar? the spouses from the U.S. for years at a time, were instituted by Congress in 1996 specifically to punish immigration-related offenses.
Since then, the law governing such situations ? and the way it?s applied ?has taken a number of twists and turns. Over that time period, waivers have helped many people. And in January, President Obama announced a plan to tweak the procedure by which citizens? spouses apply for residency, a change that could eventually spare many more families from long, painful separations. But the change isn?t likely to go into effect this year, and it isn?t retroactive. And while thousands stand to benefit, thousands of others simply won?t qualify for easier access to ?hardship waivers? that the president proposes ? and will be trapped by the small print of the 1996 law. (SEE SIDEBAR)
Under that law, if applicants for legal residency crossed the border once, and were ?unlawfully present? for more than one year, they must be issued a 10-year bar from living in the United States. They can then apply for a hardship waiver to try to return sooner and take up legal residency. If applicants have a history of entering the United States multiple times illegally, they can be barred for life ? and can only pursue pardons if they remain outside the United States for five, usually 10, sometimes 20 years. Being married to an American citizen may not help at all.
To complete their application process, people ?who entered the United States illegally must go to their final interview at a U.S. consulate back in their home countries. Often U.S. consular officials must simply deliver the bad news immediately. And that?s that. The bar has begun, and the applicant cannot return.
Oklahoma lawyer Douglas Stump, president-elect of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said for every 100 people who approach him to try to legalize a family member, more than half involve undocumented people whose immigration violations would qualify them for the hefty penalties mandated by the 1996 law.
The penalties emerged from Republican leaders in a get-tough Congress. They argued the country had become too easy on illegal immigrants by allowing some with family ties to pay fees, show they had no disqualifying police record and adjust their status without having to leave the country. Congress increased from $650 to $1,000 the fine such immigrants would have to pay. But that wasn?t enough, some members said. Such immigrants should also leave to receive the new bars on re-entering for a certain period.
By getting tougher on these undocumented people, supporters of bars reasoned, others would see that it would never be easy for them to transition from illegal to legal status, even by marriage.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican of Orange County, California, defended the tougher rules during a 2001 congressional debate over their merits ? and whether to extend a pre-1996 statute that was allowing some immigrants to still adjust their status inside the U.S.?
?Yes, there are some heart-tearing cases here,? Rohrabacher said. ?Yes, some people who are in this country end up marrying American citizens, and the American citizens find that their loved one is going to have to go back to their home country [for the duration of a bar] in order to be here legally, because they have married an illegal alien.?
?I am sorry,? he said. ?If someone is here illegally ? then they should go back to their home country to regularize their status.?
Thousands?
Hard numbers are impossible to come by, but the Department of State?s records of immigrant visa rejections suggest that thousands of bars have been handed down over the last decade.
Records don?t single out which of these applicants are spouses of U.S. citizens. Some could be other sorts of relatives. Typically, though, department officials say that spouses are one of the largest groups applying for residency visas globally.
Between 2000 and 2011, visa applicants were able to overcome their disqualification due to illegal presence for more than one year ? which carries a 10-year bar ? about 89,000 times.?However, immigrant visas were denied more than 68,000 times because applicants were unable to get their disqualification for illegal presence waived. The numbers could reflect some volume of repeat attempts by the same people.
During the same period, there were almost 19,000 disqualifications of visa applications for the offense of being ?unlawfully present after previous immigration violations.? Only five such cases were reversed. The penalty is a lifetime bar, with the possibility of being able to seek a pardon, but, ordinarily, only after 10 years.
There have been thousands of visa rejections for other immigration-related offenses, including ?misrepresentation? of facts during the application process.?
It?s also hard to know how many spouses of Americans and parents of American children could feel threatened by potential bars, and have thus decided to continue to remain undocumented. That means families are living with the risk of spouses being discovered and deported rather than trying to apply for residency.
The Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research center in Washington, D.C., estimated last year that more than 16 million people in the United States are in families with at least one undocumented member.
About 9 million of these people are in families that also include at least one U.S. citizen child. Other adults in the families could be citizens, or they could be legal immigrants.?Most illegal immigrants, Pew also estimates, have been in the United States for 10 years or more ? long enough to start a family.
?We are talking mostly about younger families with small children,? said Randall Emery, one of the founders of American Families United, a national network of citizens whose loved ones have been barred ? or would be.
Emery?s group applauded Obama?s easing of the hardship waiver rules (see "A dizzying series of legal twists and turns"), which could benefit some of its members. Eventually. But the proposed change is not bringing any relief to Americans who are already separated from husbands, wives and children.
The Xitco family
Chris Xitco, 49, says that with everything he and his wife have gone through, life feels like it?s ?her and me, against the world.?
They have two kids, Elisa, 6, and Itzamal, a 1-year-old son.
Chris met Delia, now in her mid-thirties, more than a dozen years ago on the job at a produce-packing company in the Los Angeles area. Chris is not Hispanic, but he spoke some Spanish because he grew up with Mexican workers on a family farm, and he used to surf south of Tijuana as a youth.
The two began to date, Delia taking him to see Latin music concerts. He took her to see him surf.
Delia originally hailed from Nayarit, a state in western Mexico. Chris knew that she had crossed the border illegally, that she?d been caught once in the Arizona desert, detained overnight and then tried again to enter and was successful.
But he knew so many other people who had done the same thing, who were desperate to work. The border, he said, ?was a joke for so long.? And he didn?t think Delia?s offense was unforgivable. He knew it was rare to impossible for Mexicans to get work visas, and she came from a poor part of Mexico where jobs were scarce and many had already blazed the familiar trail north.
When the two decided to marry in 2002, Chris was 38, and he and Delia were eager to get settled and have children. Chris said he knew he had to take care of business by legalizing Delia, but he ?thought it was a lock because I was a citizen.?
He was so na?ve, he said, that he took Delia right into the immigration office of a Los Angeles federal building. He approached a security guard and told him the couple was there because he wanted to ?fix? his wife?s papers.
?He put his arm around my shoulder, did a U-turn,? Chris remembered, and ushered Chris and Delia toward the door. The guard did him a big favor, Chris said he realized later. Technically, his wife could have been taken into custody right then and there. The guard gave Chris the address of a website to consult as they were walking out.
In 2003, Chris contacted an attorney, who explained how the law had changed, and suggested that Chris and Delia save their money and hope that Congress would change the laws again.
But Chris returned to the lawyer in 2004. The lawyer did a Justice Department background check on Delia and found no record of deportation. Perhaps when she was quickly turned back at the border once, the lawyer reasoned, it didn?t count.
So they started the application process.
Delia was pregnant when they got word she had an interview appointment, in Juarez, Mexico. The couple didn?t want to risk any chance that the baby would be born in Mexico, fearing that it might jeopardize Delia?s application. They asked for a delay.
Delia and Chris finally went to Mexico for her interview in October 2007, when Elisa was 16 months old. Chris? parents were thrilled with the new grandchild; Delia?s English was improving and bonds with Chris?s family were growing tighter.
Chris, as spouse, wasn?t allowed into the interview, which is standard procedure.
When Delia emerged and told him she?d been barred, Chris said it really hit him: there would be no special treatment simply because Chris was an American citizen. And his daughter?s birth didn?t change the situation.
?They don?t seem to think, well, what about the daughter? She doesn?t count?? he says. ?The system doesn?t have a heart. And it doesn?t have a brain.?
Delia took Elisa and flew to Nayarit. Chris went to Los Angeles. In December 2007 they met in Juarez for a new interview, a hardship waiver interview with the consular office there. Chris argued that he'd be crushed to lose baby Elisa for 10 years, but couldn't fathom separating her from Delia. But that argument didn?t work. Chris failed to prove that he, as the American citizen spouse, was suffering extraordinary hardship beyond the pain expected by separation.
From there, things went downhill. Delia returned to Nayarit with Elisa. Chris found himself trying to explain over and over to family and friends what the rules were. He flew to Nayarit every few months, but over time, his daughter failed to recognize him, which broke his heart. He called local congressional representatives, whose staff expressed sympathy but urged him to get a different lawyer.
The Xitcos started the whole residency application process again. This time Chris wanted to be better prepared for what he thought would be a subsequent waiver interview. He amassed letters of support from family, a psychiatrist?s evaluation, copies of anti-depressant prescriptions, his Army discharge records. He paid thousands of dollars more in fees, for Delia?s medical exams, vaccinations and other requisites and travel.
At 10:15 a.m. on April 7, 2010, Delia went to her appointment in Juarez. Chris waited with the baby outside. Delia emerged from the consulate and told Chris she was not eligible for a waiver and would have to ask for a pardon in November 2017.
A records check, she learned, had turned up a report that she had entered the United States after being caught once. It was the first time U.S. consular officials had said anything about her being disqualified because she had crossed more than once.
Devastated, Chris moved Delia up to Rosarito, a beach town 30 miles south of Tijuana that?s developing a community of deportees and barred family members of U.S. citizens.
He has settled into a grueling routine of commuting, but seethes when he discusses what happened.
He is now ?couch surfing,? sleeping at work or friends? places. For more than a year, he hasn?t been able to afford his own home in the Los Angeles area. He?s still working in the produce-distribution business. He manages to beg off work a bit early every Friday and drive down to Rosarito, which can mean brutal, three- or four-hour slogs through bumper-to-bumper traffic.
Returning to the United States at weekend?s end is even worse. Chris is perpetually exhausted because on Mondays he has to sit in three hours of traffic just to get a few miles over the border, and then drive on to Los Angeles, another three hours.
Every penny he makes and nearly all his energy goes into managing this separation, Chris said. He can?t get a job in Tijuana, he said, because the earnings are too low, and he feels he?s too old.
Chris is paying for a private school in Rosarito for Elisa, but the instruction is in Spanish, not English. Chris tries to engage her in English, but she answers in Spanish. She can sing a version of the ABC song with a heavy Spanish accent. She can say ?see you later,? and ?bye? and she understands what the Fourth of July is about.
Chris is worried how she?ll fare later if and when she enters school in the United States. She?ll be ready for junior high by then.
He said his greatest fear, being three to four hours away, is that he won?t be able to protect his family. The house Delia and the children are in has high walls, but thieves broke in once already and looted it. It?s in an area with a lot of transients, people who don?t know one another, and Delia feels she can no longer go out for very long periods of time.
?I don?t trust the neighbors,? she said. She has no friends nearby, nor relatives, and restricts her socializing to other mothers at school.
Still, having the family in Rosarito is better than in Nayarit, Chris said. Delia and Elisa had to hit the floor in a shopping center during a gang shootout there.
Chris said he doesn?t think illegal immigrants shouldn?t be penalty-free if they marry and their spouses want to legalize them. But he thinks a decade-long bar is cruel not just to Delia, but to him and his children.
?She didn?t sell any drugs. She doesn?t know anything about gang signs,? he says. ?Crossing the border to look for a job isn?t that much of a crime to me.?
The Barbour family
T.J. Barbour, a software engineer in his early thirties, knows what he is doing every Wednesday night and every weekend.
The San Diego resident leaves his Rancho Bernardo neighborhood, packs his car with household supplies he can buy for less in the United States, like toilet paper, and drives over the San Diego-Tijuana border on those Wednesdays through heavy traffic to see his wife. Their son Lucas, 10, goes with him. They come back before dawn Thursday morning. And then they return on the weekends, so the boy can spend time with his mother, who lives in a small apartment just south of Tijuana.
After getting a late start one recent Saturday, T.J. pulls up to mom?s place at night, with Lucas asleep in the back. Maythe reaches in and embraces him, and helps him stagger into the house while she asks him, in English, how his American grandparents are doing.
On Monday morning, before dawn, Maythe helps Lucas into the car so he can sleep a bit more ? he has to go to school ? and T.J. checks underneath the vehicle to make sure drug smugglers haven?t attached a box to the bottom of the car, a popular way to get goods across that can later be retrieved.
Maythe drives the car close to the border crossing so son and husband can get some sleep and then she takes two buses home. It is a grueling routine. She cries bitterly in relating how ? despite being married to T.J. ? she was deported from the United States and told she would remain in Mexico for 20 years before being able to join her family again.
?I recognize that one commits an error by crossing [the border],? Maythe said in Spanish. ?But sometimes necessity makes you do things.?
T.J. was just out of high school in San Diego when he met Maythe, at Burger King, about a dozen years ago. He tried out some rudimentary Spanish on his pretty co-worker, and it clicked. ?I definitely saw something special about her,? he says.
Maythe was reluctant to get involved because she already had a young daughter to support, and was struggling to pay off medical bills in Mexico. She was also trying to get away from a threatening experience back in her home in Mexico?s southern Guerrero state, a history T.J. says was so traumatic he won?t discuss it.
Little by little, the two fell in love. ?I have no doubt we were meant to be together,? T.J. said. He admired her hard work, and her devotion to her daughter, whom he adopted and is now also sponsoring for legal status ? a process he hopes will be more forgiving since she grew up in San Diego.
T.J. knew that Maythe had tried to get over the border twice, and was caught the first time. A smuggler told her to sit in a car and not say anything if a guard asked for her papers. She and others were caught. The smuggler then put her into the trunk of a car with tiny holes in it to let in air. She made it that time, and subsequently found jobs at an Olive Garden restaurant and Burger King, among others.
?Like most people,? T.J. said, ?I was under the impression that, well, if she gets married to me, we?re set.?
They consulted with a lawyer before they married in 2002, and T.J. was shocked to learn that it wasn?t that easy. The lawyer explained the complexities of the law, and what they were in for, but thought Maythe might get a waiver. The couple decided to go slow, out of fear.
Eventually, a paralegal reviewing their case told them that Maythe?s previous deportation would disqualify her from a hardship waiver and they?d be better off hoping Congress made changes.
?It was basically back to living in the shadows,? T.J. said.
Maythe gave birth to Lucas, and T.J. graduated from college and started his career as a software engineer. He began a graduate program. They owned a home and Maythe ?did all those mom things,? taking Lucas to school, participating in his class activities and cooking tasty meals.
It all fell apart when Maythe was stopped in 2010 by a police officer in the San Diego community of Escondido who wondered why she was driving slowly. She had been looking for a friend?s address. The officer called immigration agents.
T.J. said he had contacted the office of his congressman, Rep. Brian Bilbray, a Republican known for tough talk on illegal immigration. T.J says an office staffer assured him that Maythe would probably not be deported.
T.J. said an immigration agent suggested to him, informally, that the couple accept Maythe being deported, and that maybe she could come back soon with a waiver. T.J. kept thinking he had additional rights as a citizen, and refused. He decided to fight to keep Maythe, and filed a petition in a last-ditch bid to get her asylum based on trauma she?d been through in the past.
While waiting for a hearing, Maythe was confined to a detention center in San Diego County for five months. She didn?t see her children once because she and T.J. agreed it would be horrible for them to see her there.
When Maythe had her asylum hearing, T.J. packed the immigration court with co-workers, family and friends. Lucas sat with him in the front.
?I always thought, ?Look, they?ve got to be going after criminals, after the narco-traffickers and everything,? ? T.J. said. ?What are they going to do with a little housewife??
The judge denied Maythe?s bid for asylum, which would have let her remain in the United States. The judge, T.J. said, rushed from the court with no explanation. He said lawyers told him that judges fear that if they give too many Mexicans asylum, too many more will ask for it.
Maythe was deported in early 2011. Agents left her in Tijuana, she said, with nothing but the clothes she was wearing when detained and a cell phone with a dead battery. She had to beg for people to let her call T.J.
Because of her two deportations, T.J. said he?s been advised, she will be barred from trying to obtain legal residency and re-entering the United States for 20 years.
Maythe spent her first nights alone in Tijuana standing on a border bridge, she said, crying so hard a guard told her he was concerned she would kill herself.
Her health deteriorated, and the whole family began to put on pounds. Maythe got a job that paid about $10 a day to hand out fliers for business. She began to turn to her parents? Jehovah?s Witness faith. She found a congregation in Tijuana, and T.J. joined as well. Now when he visits they spend part of that time dressed nicely and making rounds to spread the faith.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
T.J. is concerned about the long-term impact of the separation from his mother. Both parents worry about the draining physical and psychological impact of Lucas being packed into the car and spending hours inching through traffic as they cross the border every weekend.
Lucas can?t really participate in sports or weekend activities now, T.J. says, and he?s so busy balancing job and home that all he can do is throw together a quick dinner for his son and keep the house from being a mess.
Maythe says it wouldn?t be right to pull Lucas, who doesn?t speak Spanish, out of school and move him to Mexico to be with her. He doesn?t like the food in Mexico, she said. He doesn?t feel comfortable. ?His life is there, everything he knows,? she says. ?I still feel he loves me. He makes an effort to come, and he says he misses me. But I am not a part of his total life now.?
Mandatory bars, T.J. says, don?t fit the crime, and they?ve stripped immigration judges and other officials of the discretion to consider the entirety of a person?s life and family situation.
?I want people to know that, hey, we U.S. citizens are really hurting here, and our children are,? T.J. says. ?The family ramifications of this have to be taken into account. We need to deal with the fact that people have become a part of the fabric of our society.?
The Mann Perez Family
It took 10 minutes for the consular officer in Juarez, Mexico, to look through Jorge Perez?s application packet for residency and tell him he was barred for 10 years from re-entering the United States, starting that very day in 2007.
?He said, ?Ok, that?s it. You can go now,? ? Perez, reached by phone in Mexico, remembered.
When Jorge, now 42, told wife Anita what had happened, her world collapsed.
?When I tell people what I?ve gone through, they?re shocked. They think it?s crazy that an American citizen would have to live in another country for 10 years to be with their spouse,? Anita said. She grew up in Graham, North Carolina, not far from Durham, and most of her close-knit family still lives there.
Since Jorge?s barring, she?s lost the home they were buying, spent all her retirement savings and had to move in with her parents.
This month, Anita, 34, quit a job she enjoyed at a local hospital as an aide in a clinic and packed up some belongings. She moved with the couple?s 7-year-old twins and nearly 2-year-old daughter to join Jorge again. This will be Anita?s third attempt to live in Jorge?s remote town near the Guatemalan border. But she knows it will not be easy.
?At least [in Graham] I know my girls get three square meals and a snack,? she said. Jorge has been trying to get by growing tomatoes. He built a house there with money he saved working in the States, but what he and Anita really wanted to do was build a life for themselves in Graham.
Anita met Jorge at a restaurant in Graham, where he had arrived in 2000 after getting across the border on foot, with a smuggler. Anita had studied Spanish in high school, and he was learning English. She kept going back to the restaurant and he kept talking to her.
They dated, and in 2002 they were married. It was the kind of cross-cultural union that was becoming more common in Graham, where Mexican workers have been drawn to work in roofing and in poultry-packing factories.
Jorge, who learned English quite well, blended in with the family and built a roof for her parents? house. Anita?s mother still talks about what a good son-in-law he was. ?Some people can walk off and leave their children. They don?t care,? said Nancy Mann, Anita?s mother. ?But their daddy does care.?
Shortly after they married, Anita hastened to file in 2003 to make Jorge legal. ?He didn?t even want me to do it,? she said. ?He didn?t want anybody to think he got married to me just to get papers.?
In 2004, the couple received confirmation from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that Jorge did qualify to continue to pursue legal status based on his marriage to her. They took that acknowledgement as a good sign and thought they were on their way to Jorge getting a green card. The next step was to file paperwork with the State Department, which is tasked with issuing the visas following an interview in Mexico.
The couple?s twins, Fabiola and Fatima, were born in 2005, and all seemed well. But shortly thereafter a deadly hurricane struck Central America and southern Mexico, and Jorge lost all contact with his parents. He told Anita he had to go south to check on them. So he left, for a total of three weeks, and then re-entered illegally.
Nancy Mann, Anita?s mother, believes Jorge?s actions were noble. ?They have to go check on their families,? she said. Nancy was under the impression that if U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services sent a document acknowledging Jorge?s eligibility, he was all but approved.
When Jorge was finally summoned to his 2007 interview in Mexico, however, he acknowledged that he had crossed the border twice. Lawyers warn applicants that if they are not honest about their history, they risk a lifetime bar. But that revelation of a second illegal crossing made him ineligible for a hardship waiver that could have reduced his penalty for living illegally in the United States for more than one year. Instead, Jorge was told he?d have to pursue a pardon in 2017.
?I believe that he was punished for being honest,? Anita said.
From April through August of 2007, Anita took the toddler twins to Mexico to try to live there with Jorge, but returned after one of them developed a fever so bad she had a seizure. The staff at a small clinic in the Mexican town was very attentive, she said, and put her sick child on an IV and administered medicine. But the experience frightened Anita.
She wrote to congressional representatives, asking for help. They all basically said the law was the law, although some were more sympathetic and said they?d keep her case in mind, Anita said.
She visited Jorge on occasion, and in 2010 Anita tried to live in Mexico again with the twins. She and Jorge ultimately agreed she should return to North Carolina because she had a high-risk second pregnancy. She used up all her retirement savings so she could comply with doctor?s orders to stay off her feet and not work.
When her third baby was born, she traveled down to the Texas-Mexico border once and crossed over just so Jorge could see the baby. Then she returned to Graham, and put the twins in church school and thought long and hard about what to do.
She scattered photos of Jorge around the room she and the girls slept in, and they talked every day with him. Last Easter Sunday, she hit a painful moment when one of the twins leaned over and whispered to her. ?All the daddies are here. Why can?t my daddy be with me??
As Anita was preparing to go to Mexico this month, the twins talked about being excited to see their father. ?He?s going to paint my wall with horses,? Fabiola said. ?He?s going to make me a toy box.? But the girls said they were anxious about having to speak Spanish and adjust to school there.
Anita is worried about how they?ll survive. She hopes she can earn some money teaching English. But she knows tough times are ahead, and she understands that she might not be able to stay in Mexico.
?When they give out these bars, they?re not just giving them to one person. They?re giving them to a family,? Anita said. ?It?s actually worse than a prison sentence. People in prison can do a lot less time, and do a whole lot worse things.?
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