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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Another article and a pic of the Dem senator and his new bride in the country illegaly.
http://www.examiner.com/a-437682~Senator_s_Wife_Faces_Order_to_Leave_U_S_.html
An immigration judge on Tuesday scrapped a deportation order filed against the wife of state Sen. Curt Thompson, allowing her to remain in the country.
Federal officials went into court Tuesday morning and supported Sascha Herrera Thompson's bid to block her deportation.
"Based on the unique facts of this case, we agreed not to appeal reopening the case," said Terry Bird, chief counsel for the Atlanta office of Immigration and Custom Enforcement.
Bird said that Judge William A. Cassidy expressed concern that Sascha Thompson's deportation appeared to be the result of bad paperwork filed by a notario. The judge urged that the notario be prosecuted, if possible.
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/gwinnett/stories/2006/12/04/1204metdeport.html
"The law is the law. No one's above it, not even a state senator's wife."
River swimmers sure as hell seem to be above it.
No.
---Why don't they go after the rest of the illegals? The drug dealers, the gang members, the cop-killers, the rapists....---
Well, one version has it that it's because the law is a whore...
Anyway, what fun would it be enforcing the country's laws in the broadest, most effective fashion?
Oh the pain and the shame of obeying the law
Deport both of them, both broke immigration law.
I have no sympathy for either of these two.
Our countries laws allow her permanent residency if she is married to an American citizen unless ICE officials wish to challenge the legitimacy of the marriage which I would be very surprised if they pursued that avenue.
The senator must let her go back to Columbia. If she really loves him, she will eventually return. Democrats must live their lives according to Stings songs.
I wish they would but every time they try to do it with the real illegals, we hear all kinds of whining about their *rights*. I wish they'd take care of those first and then worry about those here on visas and green cards.
However, this is not the first time by any means that I've heard of this kind of problem with people who have green cards and are married to American citizens. If she's been trying to do it the right way, she shouldn't be penalized for the system screwing up. Those here legally with green cards live in constant fear of doing something wrong and getting deported for good. Those who follow the rules are the ones penalized and they shouldn't be.
No. She gets a better place in line, however.
She is in HIDING, or was for quite awhile. I have no respect for people who HIDE from the law! Are you aware that it costs us TAXPAYERS money to hunt lawbreakers down?
On top of the fact that she was in HIDING, she's married to a State Representative!! I guess you support having a protected class of elites for whom the laws don't apply eh?
Citizenship immediately granted. On national security grounds. :)
And you should see their babies. Colombian babies are some of the cutest on the planet.
Small amount of irony in that statement, seeing that she turned herself in.
I figured she was a young hottie the Senator scored. Sure enough...
Yep. Not guilty of anything. I would even give her a preemptive pardon for future crimes.
No, not a bully. Just observant.
This whole thing confuses me. I thought that if you married an american, you were allowed to live with them in the US indefinitely. Am I missing something?
Not Guilty!
She's way too hot to be deported.
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