This may be one of the boldest attempts we've seen someone make to enter the US illegally

In this June 7, 2001, photo, Mexican national Enrique Aguilar Canchola is found sewn into a passenger seat of a vehicle as part of an attempt to illegally enter the US.

Canchola, 42, was stopped at the San Ysidro, California, border crossing (which you can see out the window). At the time of Canchola's attempted entry, it was the world's busiest border crossing.

According to US Immigration and Naturalization officials, the incident was part of growing trend of undocumented immigrants cramming themselves into intricate and potentially deadly compartments to enter the country.

http://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/may-one-boldest-attempts-weve-185944122.html



He gets an A for creative effort

don't mind me,I am just a Car-seat!

Very creative, certainly looks like he could use some water though,,,

Just a slight correction, NOT AN UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT. He is an ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT as stated in the previous two sentences "attempt to ILLEGALLY enter the U.S." and "boldest attempts we've seen someone to enter the U.S. ILLEGALLY". They are CRIMINALS...period!

Is that your lumbar support?... or are you just happy to see me?

To be a immigrant one needs to go through the immigration system, he isn't an immigrant of any kind. When people cross a border legally they aren't referred to as any kind of an immigrant, why should people who cross a border illegally receive any kind of an immigrant status?
As a legal immigrant myself I find it offensive to refer to an illegal alien with a moniker used to describe me as part of their description, I know that I'm not the only IMMIGRANT that feels the way I do.

But that is just the rant and opinion of a naturalized US citizen who is proud to be a legal immigrant.

Your gun is sticking in my rib!

Lol..."adjust your sword, boy!"
(meet the Spartans)

The only dispute I have with this story is the claim that this is any kind of "new trend."

People have been doing things like this since forever. Shipping themselves inside crates, hiding in aircraft wheel wells, building secret compartments into vehicles. I remember seeing a case about thirty years ago, where someone tried to sneak in by hiding right next to the engine in the front end of a truck.

So this is another "yeah, so what's actually new?" amusements for me.

While I don't believe most things on the I.N. I've heard of "mob rushing" the border. To many people and not enufe cops so some get past. . Nothing clever about that .

Did you read the article???????
"According to US Immigration and Naturalization officials, the incident was part of growing trend of undocumented immigrants cramming themselves into intricate and potentially deadly compartments to enter the country"

Who made any claim, or even mentioned, that that entering the country illegally using unusual methods is "actually new"? The article said "According to US Immigration and Naturalization officials" it's PART of a GROWING trend.

Fine. That means that it is those unnamed, alleged officials, who I disagree with.

No trend. That reads like boilerplate journalese hyperbole.

Now you are in dispute with validity of the article because of the "unnamed, alleged officials" used.

Got it.

Now you are putting words into my text which I did not write or imply.

Before you taunt, please read what I ACTUALLY say.

I did not 'dispute the validity of the article.' I disagreed with one of the statements made in it.

And I continue to do so.

immigrant: a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.


legal status is not a part of the definition of that word,,,



just an fyi

Yes, but you can't live permanently in the United States UNTIL you have gone through the immigration system. ANYONE who is in the country illegally CAN be deported at any time, and according to current immigration laws should be deported when they don't have a legal permanent or temporary immigration status.

Just an FYI from someone who has gone through the immigration process.

I know, so I have I

which is why we have undocumented or illegal immigrants,, those trying to live here with out proper documents or with other than legal means

I know, so I have I

which is why we have undocumented or illegal immigrants,, those trying to live here with out proper documents or with other than legal means

the definition YOU posted.

"immigrant: a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country."

Is your contention is just "trying" to live here gives a person an immigration status???? Not according to the definition of immigrant you posted.

Permanent residency, a condition that is part of the definition of immigrant you used, is ONLY granted by going through the immigration system. People living here without a legal status are foreign national aliens living here illegally, not an immigrant.