Freed student Steve Li returns to S.F.

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

The past three days have been like a dream for Steve Li.

After spending more than two months at a detention center in Arizona, Li, who was on the verge of being deported to Peru, is back in San Francisco - the only place he's ever considered home.

"Finally, this nightmare was over, but it's still surreal to me," the 20-year-old City College student said Monday. "I've been everywhere lately, it's been an emotional rollercoaster."

Since his return Saturday, Li has mostly avoided the media and appreciated simple things - sleeping in his own bed, a sushi dinner, and dim sum with friends and family.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/23/MN8V1GG4ST.DTL

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Steve Li's Chinese name is Shing Ma Li. Li's parents were born in China and immigrated to Peru during the 1980s to work at their parents' restaurant. Steve was born in Peru. The Li family moved to the US on a tourist visa in 2002 and was denied political asylum in the US and in 2004 was ordered to leave. Steve Li was studying nursing at City College of San Francisco.

[mackerel]

1. He doesn't paint a pretty picture of the detainment facility.

[Igel]

3. If he painted a pretty picture of the detention facility,

I suspect that would also deserve a few damning posts.

I feel sorry for him.

His parents screwed up, on purpose. They then screwed up again, on purpose. Probably screwed him a third time, too. On purpose.

And the reason we care is because we're supposed to care in order to help somebody get or obtain power. We're told we're supposed to care because as good, proper human beings we're supposed to care. But an Asian was picked because he's not Latino, and to embarrass all those who hate all immigration by virture of disliking illegal immigration; but he's Latino enough to remind Latinos who owns their votes. He was picked because he's a student, not a rapist or manual labor; he's not at a great school, but working class enough to not be elite.

He's a pawn. He'll most likely be screwed again, this time in the public interest narrowly construed and privately purposed. And this time, dammit, he'd better both scream (and make us think he's orgasming) and then show proper gratitude. Or perhaps not, because after the new Congress is sworn in and he's arrested (sorry, "detained") and deported he'll merit a two-line story on page E23--only in 2nd-string newspapers--and everybody will wonder why the story was even there.

[happygoluckytoyou]

2. send him and all them other asians back to mexico where they came from... (and no masturbating!)