Illegal immigrant who saved American boy was thinking of his own children


	Illegal immigrant who saved American boy was thinking of his own children

amgin

12-19-2007 10:07 AM

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12-28-2007 1:23 AM

Honoradele

Hopefully he will be able to stay in this country.

12-28-2007 7:39 AM

jonhatespigeons

Wow... so these illegal immigrants have, like, emotions and feelings and stuff.... OMG... who'd a thought?????

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</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/immigration/entries/2007/11/29/illegal_immigrant_who_saved_am.html"><P>An illegal immigrant who rescued a 9-year-old boy from the southern Arizona desert said Wednesday he was thinking of his own four children when he halted his two-day walk from Mexico to help the boy, the Associated Press reported. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/immigration/entries/2007/11/29/illegal_immigrant_who_saved_am.html"><P>Manuel Jesus Cordova Soberanes told the AP that he never could have left the boy to continue his journey, even though he was just eight hours from reaching Tucson.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/immigration/entries/2007/11/29/illegal_immigrant_who_saved_am.html"><P>“I am a father of four children. For that, I stayed,” Cordova said in Spanish from his home in Magdalena de Kino in the Mexican state of Sonora. “I never could have left him. Never.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/immigration/entries/2007/11/29/illegal_immigrant_who_saved_am.html"><P>If he had left, authorities say it could have meant death for the boy, 9-year-old Christopher Buztheitner, who had an injured leg, was dressed in shorts despite the desert cold and had just lost his mother in a car crash, the article said. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/77B26112-7758-4C71-8B7F-3E7DF3850E24/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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