WARNING. This Boston Globe "Cry me a river" piece could cause nausea.

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2007/12/29

WARNING. This Boston Globe "Cry me a river" piece could cause nausea.

@ 07:36 PM (4 months, 18 days ago)

I need to start a "Bleeding-heart, make me puke all over my screen" contest. Whose article, in this last year, was such a pathetically biased sob story that it stinks above all others? That could be a helluva difficult decision. No doubt, this wound rank in the top 20.

Somebody find my crying towel.

With only a first-grade education, he slipped across the border illegally and eventually started his own roofing business, often hiring immigrants like himself from poor villages in Ecuador. He was raised in a dirt-floor cabin, but in Milford he owned a home worth more than $350,000 off Main Street, along with a small fleet of four vans, a truck, and a jeep. Translation: In total disregard of the laws, he was able to cheat and steal his way up the illegal alien ladder. By using illegal and underpaid labor he probably cost American workers untold thousands and countless jobs. Yeah this gate-crashing, law-breaking asshole is certainly my idea of an American hero. (allegedly)

Before dawn on Dec. 7, federal agents burst into Tacuri's home and arrested him and 14 others for being here illegally, according to relatives. A total of 21 immigrants were arrested following a months-long investigation, but only Tacuri is facing federal criminal charges, for allegedly employing and sometimes housing undocumented immigrants. Later in the article his lawyer claims all the people in the house were his relatives. (CHOKE)

Authorities say Tacuri built his business by exploiting illegal immigrants, including one as young as 13. At its peak, they said, he had 80 employees, some of whom rented rooms in his house. A few workers told authorities that Tacuri did not withhold taxes or pay them overtime. Oh, Daniel Tacuri. Say it ain't so. No hero of the Boston Globe could possibly be such a total criminal dirtbag.

Tacuri, who is being held at the Wyatt Detention Facility in Rhode Island, was born and raised in the Cañari province, an area known for its verdant fields and pleasant breezes as well as the government's neglect of indigenous groups. As a child, bullies stomped on Tacuri's bare feet because he was too poor to buy shoes, his family said. His mother worked the fields and raised four boys alone. Her boys became farmers, too. Poor, poor Daniel. Picked on by those evil boys while his poor mother slaved away raising 4 childen, all alone. Because the 4 fathers are still unknown to this day? Girl liked to party? *S*

In October 1998, Tacuri was among thousands of Ecuadorans who were heading north to work. They were driven by severe inflation, natural disasters, and political turmoil in the South American nation, according to David Kyle, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Davis and author of a book on Ecuadoran immigrants. He said the United States is a powerful attraction for Ecuadorans, who adopted the US dollar as the official currency in 2000.

Tacuri's family said he paid about $7,000 to a smuggler to cross the US-Mexico border, but was caught in Texas. Authorities said he told them he was from Guatemala. Eventually, a judge ordered him deported. Ross said Tacuri never received notice of the court hearing or the order. Oh, poor, poor Daniel. And he didn't know he was ordered deported, he was cheated. Poor, poor Daniel. He was able to pay 7000 dollars to smugglers? Yeah, he was dirt poor alright. Hey, asshole. Why didn't you take the money and start a pizzaria in Ecuador?

By then, he had moved to Newark with thousands of other Ecuadorans and applied for residency the first time. He worked as a roofer for Brazilian immigrants and sent money home to build a house for his mother, plus one for himself, and send his 11-year-old daughter to school. Yes, yes, his poor mother and poor little girl. What a great guy. I feel the tears creeping out of my ass. Oh, sorry. It was gas. And he applied for residency, after already being ordered deported years earlier, as he lived in his $350,000 house.

Four years ago, Tacuri followed his bosses to Milford, where Brazilians are a larger immigrant group, and soon managed to open his own business. Last year, he registered Same Day Roofing with the Secretary of State's office and bought his own house. As his business grew so did his responsibilities. Each month he sent home hundreds of dollars to his extended family. If people here needed cash or a part-time job, he helped them, too.

"He liked to help people," said his brother Antonio, who is also facing deportation. "He remembered how we suffered when we were poor." Yes, yes, good Daniel. Good loving, caring Daniel who was so poor and, now, helped other poor people. As he was cheating and stealing from them. (allegedly) hahahaha

Even the town police saw him as a community leader, and regularly reached out to Tacuri for help educating Ecuadorans about the town's rules. But in May, after increasing concerns about his business, police officer Joseph Sherus reported Tacuri's operation to immigration officials. Yes, yes, good Daniel. Even the police used him to reach out to the poor immigrant community, before the rat-bastards reported him to La Migra. EVIL police. Evil, evil. Picking on poor, good neighbor Daniel. I'm feeling those tears, again. Maybe I need to take a dump.

Chief Thomas O'Loughlin said police do not enforce immigration laws, but they reported Tacuri to federal authorities on numerous occasions on concerns that they were exploiting low-wage workers. Also, he said, town officials had cited him two months earlier for using his home as an illegal boarding house. NO!! Not good Daniel. Not poor, poor Daniel who sent money to his poor mommy and daughter and who helped so many poor people. No, he wouldn't violate any laws. The gate-crashing, thieving asshole couldn't be a hero if he did that. Oh, alleged gate-crashing, thieving asshole.