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Ga. senator's wife turns self in
AP via Yahoo! News ^ | December 5, 2006 | DANIEL YEE

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; immigrantlist; immigration
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To: zerosix
The woman, who knew she was here illegally, her husband who also knew she was here illegally

Give me a break, will you?

THE WOMAN WAS HERE LEGALLY. L-E-G-A-L-L-Y.


201 posted on 12/05/2006 12:57:38 PM PST by King of Florida (A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.)
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To: King of Florida
I read it, still confused.

So this Notico sent in paperwork for asylum, except she didn't want asylum and when her husband tried to adjust her status she was in trouble for missing court dates on her asylum petition? Is that it? What were the grounds they were using to deport her on?
202 posted on 12/05/2006 1:24:56 PM PST by Recall
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To: subterfuge
"Sascha Herrera, wife of Sen. Curt Thompson."

Just out of curiosity, if she wants to be the Americanized wife of Senator Thompson, why isn't she MRS. Curt Thompson, not Sascha HERRERA? Is taking your husband's name just another American custom she doesn't care to follow? Throw her out!!!

203 posted on 12/05/2006 1:40:30 PM PST by holyscroller (A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but the foolish man's heart directs him to the left)
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To: AppyPappy

Camels.

It will improve relations with Saudi Arabia.


204 posted on 12/05/2006 2:05:34 PM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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To: Dark Skies

like a photo finish in a Zeppelin race


205 posted on 12/05/2006 2:09:59 PM PST by babble-on
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To: raybbr

I think I will grant Jennifer Martin amnesty.


206 posted on 12/05/2006 2:17:54 PM PST by BurbankKarl
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To: holyscroller
On another thread there was mention of the case of our own Bobby Fischer the chess champion. He is facing some ten years by our government because he was illegally in another country for a chess match.
207 posted on 12/05/2006 6:11:09 PM PST by Jane Austen
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To: angkor
Columbia has one of the longest-running political insurgencies in the world.

Well if I recall my great-nephew was down there with the US Army, {He's now in Iraq} for about a year so I think I knew about the little fight that has been going on. But where in our law does it say this is an asylum event. If it is the whole country will be here shortly.

208 posted on 12/05/2006 7:06:48 PM PST by org.whodat (Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
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To: Dark Skies
Wow the wonders of makeup. This is the photo that appeared in the newspaper which is a far cry from the one you posted


209 posted on 12/05/2006 7:23:05 PM PST by StarFan
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To: Recall
I read it, still confused.

So this Notico sent in paperwork for asylum, except she didn't want asylum and when her husband tried to adjust her status she was in trouble for missing court dates on her asylum petition? Is that it? What were the grounds they were using to deport her on?

Yes, you've got it in a nutshell. She apparently went to this notary public -- who represented that his position was like a notario in Colombia, i.e., that of a powerful attorney -- just to extend her student visa. The deportation order came out of her having missed a hearing date with respect to the asylum petition -- not because she had entered the country illegally.

210 posted on 12/06/2006 4:17:10 AM PST by King of Florida (A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.)
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To: StarFan
Well, she'll probably never be Miss Colombia, but she's not a total barker or anything.


211 posted on 12/06/2006 4:23:56 AM PST by King of Florida (A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.)
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To: Moonman62

> I think you are the one being duped. This reeks of a political stunt. <

Oh, it's a stunt all right, just not the kind you think it is. By focusing their energies on this reputable woman, who is clearly no threat to the country, the government is undermining the case for tracking down and deporting illegal aliens who DO pose a real threat to us. It makes ICE look like a bunch of warped Inspector Javert's and the illegals like a bunch of poor Jean Valjean's.


212 posted on 12/06/2006 4:29:23 AM PST by jaime1959
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To: King of Florida

Did her media relations people tell her to make sure she was looking up for all pictures?


213 posted on 12/06/2006 4:37:43 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: jaime1959

The way she was applied for asylum was either stupid or a stunt. Take your pick.


214 posted on 12/06/2006 4:39:52 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: subterfuge
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?

Wouldn't that make the state senator as being an accomplice of a crime? (and liable to disciplining by his branch of the state legislature? Presumably he knew her residency status and that the police were looking for her. (If I remember correctly one doesn't get automatic residency status for marrying a US citizen, you still have to apply for it, but such an application will likely be approved without hassle.)

215 posted on 12/06/2006 5:16:24 AM PST by old republic
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To: King of Florida

Got it.

Yes, you are right. I guess everyone's illegal immigrant radar sounded because she is so recently married (maybe a scam) to a Democrat Senator (maybe a cheat) and had been hiding (maybe illegal).


216 posted on 12/06/2006 7:23:02 AM PST by Recall
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To: Recall
I guess everyone's illegal immigrant radar sounded because she is so recently married (maybe a scam) to a Democrat Senator (maybe a cheat) and had been hiding (maybe illegal).

No, everyone's "illegal immigrant radar" went off because for the most part, many here are simply reactionaries looking for a cause, or any other reason to single out someone else for either death or deportation.

For the life of me, sometimes I think that siesmographs all over the country would register from the knees jerking and hitting the bottoms of computer desks...

Col Sanders

217 posted on 12/06/2006 9:05:31 AM PST by Col Sanders (I ought to tear your no-good Goddang preambulatory bone frame, and nail it to your government walls)
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To: Constitution Day

You are the only person on this thread who is making any sense. :)


218 posted on 12/06/2006 9:07:32 AM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: Col Sanders

LOL


219 posted on 12/06/2006 9:09:42 AM PST by Constantine XIII
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