New Mexico Man who saved girl says he's illegal immigrant

Antonio Diaz Chacon, 23, is a Mexican citizen married to an American and has been in the country for four years.
The man who chased down an alleged child abductor and saved a 6-year-old girl from what could have been a horrible fate will be honored as a hero Friday. But he is also gaining a new kind of celebrity: as a poster child of sorts for immigration rights in state and national immigration debates.
The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday that deportations would focus on criminals.
"As exceptional as his story is," said Christina Parker, a spokeswoman for Border Network for Human Rights in El Paso, "It points to the fact that most undocumented immigrants living in the United States are not criminals. He's more than not a criminal now. He's a hero."
Others used it to blast New Mexico GOP Gov. Susana Martinez's ongoing attempts to repeal a state law that allows foreign nationals, including illegal immigrants, to obtain a driver's license. The governor has put the repeal — which was defeated in the regular session earlier this year — on the agenda for a September special session.
The governor's office said it's position was unchanged and accused immigrants rights groups of exploiting Diaz Chacon.
"The Governor believes foreign nationals here legally, whether through work pemits or visas, should be able to receive driver's licenses, but is opposed to giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants," Martinez's office said in a statement.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44206940/ns/us_news-life/

'Scuse me, dudette. You can accuse someone else of exploitation when YOU stop exploiting the economy and people's fears in order to use MY tax dollars to posture in front of the cameras in the hope of attracting attention to your Neanderthal cred for a veeper run.

THEN you can talk about someone else "exploiting" with a straight face.

Until then, keep yer pie hole shut.

disgustedly,
Bright

like sanctuary status for various cities and allowing undocumented workers to have drivers licenses, get their cars insured, and obey the laws.

The governor is a damned teabagger from Texas. I knew her reign would be acrimonious--in one of her first actions she tried to repay her debt to the Koch brothers by overturning environmental restrictions by fiat and got slapped down by the courts--and I'm just hoping my other prediction that she's a one termer will also come true. She's horrible, exactly wrong on every single issue.

I sincerely hope enough of my fellow citizens are paying enough attention to boot Tejana Susana back over the border come 2014.

And I hope the lege remains sane enough to keep every single program she hates.

because She isn't New Mexican. She is from Texas. She has best buddy Rick Perry.
I hope She get out of New Mexico!!!

that we must all join hands as we are ALL in the same boat. I would guess the "illegals" have paid a high price to get inside our borders to do what?

I admit it....I was very wrong in my old thinking! Praises to Antonio Diaz Chacon! and I'm certain there are many, many more who are, if not heroic, contributors to our society-at-large. (It's been a long road for me to FINALLY come to this conclusion.) I am truly ashamed but now grateful to have reached a higher plateau.

on the workers of Mexico. Once the source of cheap labor, they got underbid by slave-labor wages in the orient. They come here because, however bad conditions are for them here, they are worse at home.

Are people who speed illegals?

Crossing the U.S. border without proper documentation is a misdemeanor infraction.

Hell, even murderers in this country aren't labeled "illegals".

Diaz is married to a U.S. citizen. Does that not automatically make him a citizen or at least a legal resident too?

Seem to remember that was the case in the not so way back when.

Wonder if the guy who tried to kidnap the little girl, Garcia, is from NM or from south of the border? Article not clear on that.