Both lose in aborted immigrant-citizen home sale

[AlphaCentauri]

Like all illegal immigrants, Lorenzo Jimenez knew the knock on the door from immigration agents could come at any time.

Still, he had enough faith in the American dream to buy a house in this Atlanta suburb, even though signing the papers meant raising the risk: He put his 2-year-old, American-born daughter's name and Social Security number on the title.

And it worked, for a while. Jimenez and his family lived happily enough for several years alongside "regular" citizens.

Nicole Griffin's mom lived a few doors away, and when Griffin visited, she said, her kids played with the Jimenez children. When Jimenez put his four-bedroom, two-bathroom home up for sale last spring, wanting more space, Griffin was immediately interested.

A contract was negotiated but when the sale appeared to go sour, Griffin raised a new issue: that she was a citizen and Jimenez wasn't. She told local media, immigration officials, his boss and others that he was here illegally. She even put signs in the yard of the house exposing his residency status.

As a result, agents came knocking last month, and now Jimenez is fighting to keep from being deported. He also lost his job.

"I'm very sad and very worried," said Jimenez, 32. "I can't sleep because I'm thinking about my family. What's going to happen? I don't know."

Griffin insists her intent was to buy the house, nothing else. The 28-year-old single mother of two maintains she was wronged first, so she acted to protect her interests. She has no regrets.

"At the end, do I feel bad the family got in trouble? No, not at all," she said.

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[Lyric]

1. What a spiteful, selfish, evil little fungus of a person.

God I loathe people like that.

:grr:

Edit: I bet that nasty woman is just waiting to buy that house at a fire-sale price now, too. Grrrrrrr.

[RB TexLa]

2. Guess he shouldn't have been stealing from 'Merican workers and lowering their standard of living.

Didn't he think about what he was doing to those "good 'Mericans!"



Since there are people here who think that.

:sarcasm:

Yes, I am making fun of you who think things like that.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

3. What a jerk.

I'm so sick of people who think that being born here is such an accomplishment.

[blueraven95]

4. what an evil woman

I don't know how anyone can willfully ruin someone's life and still live with themselves. It is absolutely beyond me.

[WeDidIt]

5. Wow,, that'll mean foreclosure

That evil woman is looking to get that house as cheaply as possible.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. I condone violent retribution in this case. NEVER TO LIVING BEINGS, obviously.

Only inanimate objects. Like, say, houses. Or cars.

[gollygee]

7. I imagine the family will be deported, but it would make me feel better

if she were somehow at least blocked from buying it. That's just evil.

[AlphaCentauri]

9. According to the article she can't even afford to buy a house

Griffin hasn't tried to buy another home, in part because she can't afford to, so she and her kids are still staying with her mother.

Just pure evil

[w4rma]

8. Illegal immigrants are easy to blackmail. That's why employers like them. (nt)