Posted on 07/01/2007 12:32:37 PM PDT by DakotaRed
BOSTON - A woman whose soldier husband is missing in Iraq has gotten her green card after authorities threatened to deport her for entering the U.S. illegally.
Yaderlin Hiraldo Jimenez walked out of a Citizenship and Naturalization Services Office in Buffalo, N.Y., on Friday with her permanent residency papers, her lawyer said.
"She was moved to tears," attorney Matthew Kolken, who accompanied his client, told The Boston Globe for Sunday's editions.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Kerry Asks For Compassion In Case Of Missing Soldier’s Wife
However, according to earlier reports,
"Procedures that could lead to her deportation began in 2006, but U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials alongside the Jimenez family attorney halted those proceedings before a deportation order could be issued, ICE spokeswoman Jamie Zuieback told FOXNews.com. Yaderlin Jimenez's lawyer says she could still face deportation because ICE could reopen the case, but the case is in an inactive status in a New York immigration court, Zuieback said.
"There would have to be a proactive effort to reopen it, and that's not something that's been done in the last year and a half," and there are no plans to do so, Zuieback said.
"We certainly along with other Americans hope for Spec. Jimenez's safe return," she said."
Feds Say Missing Soldier's Illegal Immigrant Wife Not Likely to Be Deported
Was she really in imminent danger of being deported?
Who threatened to deport her? All I ever heard was the media saying it could happen.
They just want to pretend that this is a hard case. Sounds like a PR setup from Chertoff and Bush, Incorporated to try to embarrass the anti-amnesty crowd.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there weren’t a few who wanted her deported just to have the story to use to promote amnesty.
Realistically there was probably little chance of her being deported and letting her stay is fine with me. It truly wasn’t her fault.
Just the other day I heard Chertoff say that we had better get used to “heart rending stories”.
“Realistically there was probably little chance of her being deported and letting her stay is fine with me.”
According to the letter of the law, she could be deported. As far as I can tell, that option was only really examined by the media who, of course, ran with it to further their own agenda.
As I always say “Justice is supposed to be blind, not stupid.”
That’s what I meant. She wasn’t going anywhere and I guess we all knew that but her.
30 million illegal aliens in this country and they pick on someones spouse who is in Iraq?
They are playing the sympathy card to keep these illegal aliens here. It is all a ploy.
Start deporting the 12 million in this city of the Angeles, and we will start talking.
If everyone would just obey the law there wouldn’t be any special cases.
This from an “immigration” lawyer in the Fox article linked to your post...
“He said he believes that throughout the country, there are between 1 million and 3 million families where one spouse is not a legal resident”.
What a flat out lie...There’s only about 2 million military families..
That would mean ALL 1 to 3 million families has an illegal alien spouse...
ROFLMBO
I swear everyday the number of illegals are growing by the millions, heck 10’s of millions because yesterday I heard there were just 12-14 million. Now according to you there are 30 million, 12 million alone(out of a city of 13 million) in Los Angeles, unless of course you count the greater metro which is 18 million.
I don’t want to hear any more from this gargoyle. I just want him and his hapless boss gone asap.
>> “He said he believes that throughout the country, there are between 1 million and 3 million families where one spouse is not a legal resident”.
This quote doesn’t say 1 to 3 million “military” families ... it simply says families.
Its possible the stat is correct ... not that it makes much difference.
H
This has got to be Chertoff. Wow, if Bush had used this energy and capital for SS reform...!
This b***h is no better than that Cindy Sheehan character by trying to capitalize on her husband’s death in order to stay in America. She should honor her husband and get her Latina butt back to Mexico.
This story’s not heart-wrenching at all. It’s simply how a law-breaker got away with a crime with the help of Bush & Kerry Co.
The number has been 12 million illegal aliens for the last six years despite millions of illegals entering every year.My guess is there’s a lot more than twelve million illegals in this country.
Bush doesn’t care about SS reform. they assume it will not be available so they are willing to let it just run out. I have ex-inlaws who are from Iran. They never worked a day in their life, and they collect SS benes as if they worked here.
That is what we are up against, and it is all legal. We do without while the immigrants get everything handed to them.
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