She came to the United States with her husband in 1991 to seek better health care. Last year, the Southgate woman's husband was deported. This month, she was due to be forced out as well before U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, introduced a rare bill on her behalf that has suspended deportation proceedings.

Holy crap!  They hid out for 19 years squirting out kids and mooching off the healthcare system teat before even one of them was booted out for being illegal aliens?  WTF!  And, Communist Conyers brings forth a bill to protect lawbreaking gatecrashers?  Double WTF!

The bill comes amid national debate about immigration reform for the nation's 10.5 million undocumented residents. Supporters say her case demonstrates that the system is broken. But foes counter the law is clear, Hernandez broke it, and Conyers' bill is inappropriate.

Inappropriate?  Absolutely right.  Conyers swore an Oath of Office to protect and defend our laws and our nation.

"Here we have a family that's working really hard, paying taxes, contributing the community," said Ryan Bates, director of the Alliance for Michigan Immigrants and Reform.

Oh, bullsh!t.  They are no harder working than any others in this nation that pay their taxes and aren't illegals.  That "family that's working really hard" didn't even attempt their first task as honorable immigrants of entering America legally.  Hard workers my ass.

"The immigration laws we have don't make allowance for their children, and the contributions that they've made. A congressman shouldn't have to intervene to make sure that children with cerebral palsy are able to stay with their parents. What we need is Congress to address this issue in a serious way and begin the process for comprehensive immigration reform."

More bleeding-heart Liberal the "system is broken" nonsense trumpeted for the barrio.  Where the system is truly broken is that the Dimocrat Party since The Floater pushed through his Hart-Cellar Act of 1964 creating a bait-pile for anchor babies and a never ending chain of family cling-on immigrants.

William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration, said bills written for individuals are "political propaganda" designed to influence the debate about immigration.

"It's anti-American. In America, the rule of law says we are all treated equally," said Gheen, whose Raleigh, N.C.-based group is fighting amnesty for illegal immigrants.

"For Congress to selectively make a case for someone gives the appearance that some people have special friends in Congress and can have laws changed for them specifically."

But of course, that's how Dimocrat Party voters are recruited.  They vote in their own gummint entitlements.  What better way is there for the Dimocrats to expand their base than amnesty.

Conyers' bill delayed Hernandez's deportation that was to be this month and would make Hernandez eligible for an immigrant visa. The private bill was referred to a subcommittee and died when Congress ended its session. When Congress reconvenes Jan. 5, Conyers plans to reintroduce it. But attention caused by the bill, along with pressure from the community, led to Hernandez last week getting a one-year extension from immigration officials.

Didja catch that.  The Mexican community pressured and won an extension.  They don't give a rats ass about our laws here the same they don't in any other state.  Their Mexican nationality supersedes our Constitutional law.  House Republican leadership had better not check their spines at the door with their coats on this issue or it'll be the shortest control of the House they've ever seen.

Either way, Conyers' bill is offering hope that Hernandez's 18-year-old son, Adrian, will continue to get treatment for cerebral palsy, a disorder affecting the brain and nervous system with very difficult to find and expensive treatments in Mexico.

"Without the treatments, I don't think I could do anything," said Adrian Hernandez, a Southgate High School student who gets physical therapy two days a week and takes pain medication for his back and ankle. "Without treatments, I can't go to school."

Yep, yet another documented story of American citizen taxpayers on the hook for illegals mooching on the healthcare and education system.

Now, here for the real kick-in-the-ass...

"I'm very happy because it's Christmas time," Hernandez, 40, said in Spanish through an interpreter, the Rev. Kevin Casillas, pastor of the First Latin American Baptist Church in Detroit. "I was very worried I was going to have to leave for Christmas and my children were not going to be with me."

Ain't that a b!tch?  A 40-year-old Mexican mother of 5 living here for over 19 years, and still hasn't learned one goddamn lick of basic English for her press interview.  Must be because illegals, as well as lazy legals enjoy the redundancy publication cost of gummint forms to state taxpayers.

And, why have the following businesses that aided the Hernandez family to break our laws been prosecuted?

During the 20 years that she has lived here, she and her husband have always worked and paid taxes, and only recently began relying on Social Security to help with her son's care. Her husband had worked for an auto manufacturer while she worked for Mexican Industries, sewing car mats and tire covers.

Really?  Which auto manufacturer was employing an illegal?  I know that 20+ years ago when I hired into Ford Motor, I had to show birth certificate/citizenship and my SS#.  By the way...Mexican Industries Detroit plant went teats-up in 2001 when the Latinos tried to force the UAW on them, prolly because the illegals were undercutting the legal Mexicans.  Mmmmmnnnnyah,  those hard workin' folk like Celina Hernandez and her deported hubby.