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Circuit Court Clerk David Bell tipped off police about the sham marriages, triggering a nearly four-year investigation.

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Some now face the agonizing choice of whether to leave their children born in the United States, who are U.S. citizens, or take them to Africa.

U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee offered a few words of comfort to Chepkwony at her recent plea hearing. But his sympathy only went so far.

"America is composed of -- is a nation of immigrants," he said. "Everyone here came from somewhere else. However . . . there are rules on how one can immigrate to live here permanently.

"You did not follow the rules."

They should be deported. But shouldn't all illegal immigrants?