Curt Thompson-Georgia State Senator , Jennifer Martin-GCI Group
This is his wife:
I think you should ask the mods to pull that post.
Posted on 12/05/2006 6:37:20 AM PST by King of Florida
ATLANTA - The Colombia-born wife of a Georgia state senator, who had been in hiding as federal immigration officials try to deport her, turned herself in Tuesday to face an order to remove her from the country.
Sascha Herrera, 28, arrived at the Martin Luther King Federal Building shortly before 8 a.m. to face authorities in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office.
"I'm very nervous right now," Herrera said. "I think I'm doing the right thing. I hope my name and my husband's name is clean."
Her husband, State Sen. Curt Thompson said, "The main goal is to make sure after the interview that they will allow Sascha to go home."
She had 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 she never received the immigration notices that triggered her deportation order.
Kuck filed a petition Monday to stay her deportation order and reopen her 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.
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My Japanese daughter-in-law was here legally as a university student until she graduated, at which time she honored her visa and went home. My son followed her, married her, and they went through all the legal steps for him to live in Japan while they went through all the legal steps for her to return to the US with him. They spent thousands of dollars for applications and attorney fees, several trips for interviews with rude Mexican INS employees, filled out pages and pages of legal paper work, and everything else required for her to be in the US legally. I have no sympathy what so ever for anyone who breaks our immigration laws, or any other laws. So you can take your bleeding heart and stuff it.
Oh, I can stuff it, can I? Allow me to retort and school you in the process.
Full-disclosure: I am married to a Colombian woman, hence my interest in this story. She was here on a non-immigrant visa when we became engaged. We eventually married here -- after she had come and gone to Colombia a couple of times in the process. (Remember this part for when I really school you later, Mrs. Stuff-It-Yourself.)
After our marriage, she returned to Colombia and I applied for her residency visa. That process took six months from the day I mailed the application to the regional USCIS service center to the day she was granted her visa in Colombia.
However, if she had not gone back and forth between Colombia and the U.S. after we were engaged and had just stayed here instead, she "simply" could have applied for adjustment of status (AOS) based upon our marriage and having remained in the country since we met and became engaged.
This is precisely what happened with the senator and his wife here -- they met while she was here and then married. Thus, she never entered the country with the intent of getting married -- which is what my wife would have been doing on her last return trip from Colombia.
Your daughter-in-law could have married your son here and stayed -- it's done all of the time, and it's completely legal, as long as she never entered the country with the intent of marrying him. That's what she should have done.
Don't blame me or the senator's wife because your son was given shabby advice. Feeling stuffed?
Thanks for posting a few facts....
I didn't see a party affiliation, so the Senator must be a "D".
Oh, pish-tush, you have no idea what you're talking about. As I mentioned above, if you meet someone from a foreign country here and marry them, that person is entitled to remain here and apply for adjustment of status. It's only if you met them before they entered the country that they have to go back and then go through the paperwork.
Looks like she she's smuggling something into the country. 2 things, actually.
Who issued the order to remove her frome the country? Also If you can, please tell me which laws, as a legal citizen, I am allowed to ignore. One last question, if Sascha Herrera is so intent on becoming a U.S. citizen, why doesn't she feel the need to assimilate and take her husbands last name? Something like Sascha Thompson or Sascha Herrera-Thompson? I'll bet she never leaves Senator out when speaking of her husband!
...Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrived at her home Nov. 28 with an order to remove her from the U.S. ...
The deportation order stems from Herrera's repeated failure to appear before a judge on the asylum application...
Strip search is called for in this case!
Curt Thompson-Georgia State Senator , Jennifer Martin-GCI Group
This is his wife:
I think you should ask the mods to pull that post.
if that's her, she stays. He on the other hand can be sent to Timbuktu.
So why didn't she follow the law?
Upon further review, the woman stays!!!
But both have the same lips, facial structure, nose, and hairline.
See this post for the pic. She actually looks like a typical feminist/democrat "womyn".
"...The law is the law. No one's above it, not even a state senator's wife..."
The klintons, Swimmer, Jon Scarry, among others would care to differ with your statement. :-)
I've heard of this before. There's a local tempest in a teapot - roughly the same situation and the illegal is claiming the same thing.
It strikes me as very convenient. Or, is it really common? Can anyone comment?
And I think he's lost most his female voters.
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