Well, I would guess it's moot, now. She can stay, decide which 3 of the last 5 years of income she wants to pay taxes on, qualify for the earned income tax credit if she currently doesn't make enough and probably qualify for several different small business loans. I, for one, am very proud that my tax dollars aren't being wasted on xenophobic goals like actually striving to secure the border!
I like how the pro-illegal groups pull out the 'tear jerker' stories to justify the crimes of illegal criminals.
BTW, I think we both have something in common! You probably find yourself apologizing to people for John McCain being the Senator from your state. I do the same for Arlen Specter! I'm not sure which of us needs to feel the most guilty!
I say let the woman stay. She married a Dick just to stay in this country. That's enough sacrifice.
She's too short to be deported.
Nothing is stopping her husband/child from going back with her while she waits.......
She entered the country illegally twice. Once when she was 12 and her parents brought her in...and again when she was 23 years old. She went back to Mexico to attend her grandmother's funeral and lied to the border patrol when she reentered the country. She would have continued to lie about her status if she hadn't been busted. She never once tried to "make things right" so I have no sympathy for her.
"Now that the Senate has reached an agreement on immigration reforms, the plight of 31-year-old Myrna Dick could also become part of the contentious debate under way in Washington, her lawyers say."
Seems like the government could have come up with a better case to prosecute than this one, unless of course, they were hoping to use this case as a rallying call for liberal immigration reform. And that is why I think they really brought this case. There are millions of illegal immigrants who are better cases for deportation than this one, and they do nothing.
Dick's lawyers have argued in several federal courts that she never claimed she was a U.S. citizen, but instead told officials she was attempting to enter the country illegally.
"In declining States the leadership intuitively choses the most harmful course of action."- A great historian 1888
Since she has been here several years, is married to an American and had a kid here, and there are millions of other illeglas they aren' targetting, WHY are they targetting her???
Perhaps to try and discredit people who want to deport illegals, that's why. They are making a trial case of an unusual circumstance and then will apply the result to all the illegals infesting our respective states and plaguing the border.
Don't underestimate the Byzantine thinking of Alberto Gonzales.