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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Give me a break, will you?
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!!!
Camels.
It will improve relations with Saudi Arabia.
like a photo finish in a Zeppelin race
I think I will grant Jennifer Martin amnesty.
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.
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.
> 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.
Did her media relations people tell her to make sure she was looking up for all pictures?
The way she was applied for asylum was either stupid or a stunt. Take your pick.
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.)
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).
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
You are the only person on this thread who is making any sense. :)
LOL
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