Posted on 12/04/2006 1:56:29 PM PST by kiriath_jearim
ATLANTA -- State Sen. Curt Thompson has been a strong advocate of immigration rights, once speaking in Spanish from the steps of the Georgia Capitol against the adoption of some of the nation's strictest immigration controls.
Now Thompson's Colombia-born wife is in hiding as federal immigration officials try to deport her.
Sascha Herrera, 28, has been in hiding since Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrived at her home Nov. 28 with an order to remove her from the U.S. She was not home at the time.
Her attorney, Charles Kuck, claims she was duped by a man handling her immigration requests and that her deportation order is a clerical error. He says neither he nor her husband know where Herrera is.
Kuck plans to file a petition to reopen her deportation case, arguing that a man filed an asylum petition on her behalf without her knowledge and before her husband sponsored her green card application based on their April marriage.
The deportation order stems from Herrera's repeated failure to appear before a judge on the asylum application, which Kuck said she did not know had been filed.
The case hinges on whether Herrera received a notice to appear in court, and whether the asylum application could have been filed without her knowledge, said Victor Cerda, former general counsel for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
According to Kuck, Herrera came to the U.S. -- where her parents have been living -- on a visitor visa in early 2004. She applied for an extension to the visa through a "notario" -- a man who claimed he was qualified to handle legal immigration matters -- but did not get it until 20 days before the extension was due to expire.
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Seems like he's got a conflict of interest.
Democrat I presume?
A Dem, by the way.
ping
Is she hot?
She's ten years younger than he is. Not exactly robbing the cradle.
No legal conflict since it's open and concerns a legitimate dispute in which he's not hiding his interest and has representation. There's a curious paradox in the attempt to deport this person while thousands come illegally every day and melt into the populace, have no skills, education or stable relationship to the U.S. in contrast to this lady.
Yes, one can always tell by the media ommission of party affiliation that the culprit in trouble with the law is 99% a democrat.
Yeah, right. /sarcasm
Given the tendency of Colombian women to be hotties I might give him a pass on this one though.
The fact that she's married to him ought to make a difference. The problem is that she did not get married until after the proceedings began.
When I read cases like this one, I suspect that the INS is deliberately being aggressive because they realize that it's a bad case, and they want to highlight what they think is unfairness in the law. The easy cases (drug pusher from Mexico), they let off the hook. Legislator's wife, they go after with a vengence, thinking that it will poison public opinion against immigration enforcement, which is really their goal.
Well...That's just swell! No need to wonder anymore why the federal government will not enforce the laws against the illegals and deport the whole sorry lot of lawbreakers. I'm so tired of these lawbreakers who are fleecing all of our social systems and depriving a good many citizens of the jobs THEY STEAL by being here illegally. And Bush has the nerve to tell us we need them for our economy-I DON'T THINK SO!
If you marry a US citizen, doesn't that grant you citizenship?
No. They still have to go through the process. If they are here illegally then they are supposed to go back to their country of origin and start the process from there.
Well, of course. . .his wife is an illegal.
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