For Star subscribers: The parents of the GOP candidate for Arizona attorney general were in the country illegally when he was a child. But Hamadeh embraced Trump and the GOP's stand on illegal immigration.
Abraham Hamadeh, the GOP candidate for Arizona attorney general, has said that to know him, you have to know his family.Hamadeh has defined himself as a candidate who wants to secure the Arizona-Mexico border against illegal crossings. But he is also the son of a father who was in this country illegally when Hamadeh was born.
Overstays vs. border crossingsHow, for example, could a man whose parents were in the country illegally when he was born demand that we"punish" those crossing the Mexican border today, as Hamadeh has? Would he want the same for his parents back in the day? In the case of Hamadeh's father, Jamal Hamadah , he arrived in New York City on May 28, 1989 with permission to stay six months, till Nov. 27 that year, court documents show. Like millions of other foreign travelers, before and after him, he didn't leave. Hamadah and his wife stayed, went into the jewelry business in Chicago and had two children who were American citizens by virtue of their birth.
In truth, his parents' experience shows the messy reality of many families' immigration cases, in which people live here in limbo and struggle to avoid deportation. Hamadeh's parents were in the same gray area that millions of people live in who cross the border illegally, or who seek asylum and wait years for a decision to be made.
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