Cojones Mas Grandes
Local radio host Michael Graham has been having a field day this morning with this story:
A Framingham man who told police he can’t afford to return to his native Guatemala, turned himself in Saturday on identity theft charges so he could eventually be deported, police said.
Carlos F. Boc, 29, told officers he had no job or money and was worried about surviving the winter, police spokesman Lt. Paul Shastany said.
Just after 8:30 Saturday night, Boc went to the front window at the Framingham Police station and spoke to Officer Joe Godino.
“He said he needed help in returning to his home country,” Shastany said.
Boc then showed documents, including a birth certificate and a Social Security number of another man, as well as a driver’s license with his picture but the other man’s information. Boc said he had stolen his former roommate’s identification after the man moved back to Puerto Rico two years ago, Shastany said.
Boc also provided proof of his real name. Boc told police he came to the United States from Guatemala 13 years ago, but could not afford to return. Illegal immigrants convicted of a felony are subject to deportation. He entered this country illegally through Mexico, police said.
“He said he had no job and no money, and he was afraid for his safety in the winter,” said Shastany. “He said the only way to get home was to tell the truth and prove who he was. Godino told him ‘Due to what you just advised me, you committed a crime.’ Boc said, ‘I know.”‘
So after all the crimes he committed, the only questions we have for him are window or aisle, chicken or pasta, beer or wine?
I think this is actually quite complimentary to our country. In what other land would a man from Guatemala learn the true meaning of chutzpah? He’d better hope his deportation doesn’t come before Friday, though. I just checked the weather for Guatemala City, and they’re going to have rain and thunderstorms over the next couple of days.
Since he’s such a paragon of honesty, is it too cynical of me to wonder if he’s got a nice bank account waiting for him back home, stuffed with earnings made illegally at the expense of legal immigrants and citizens? How is it possible he made enough money there to get here (paying smugglers and bribing the constabulary as he went), but not enough money here to get there?
And if his story is true (which I doubt, if you couldn’t tell), what does that say about the Obama stimulus plan, when even hardened criminals of 13 years can’t make a dishonest buck anymore?