Besides, dogs look silly wearing those....
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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So is she really being deported for silicone smuggling?
She is an illegal. Once the full story comes out, we might well find out the said notario in question only followed the instructions he was given. That is, before this lady lassoed her Dim state senator "husband" to help her out.
If she had had a visa or green card she wouldn't have applied for political asylum.
She was here illegally.
The very thought that you should be allowed to apply for asylum from Columbia is stupid.
Fox reported him as a Republican this morning. But if it's buried, he must be a Dem.
Good morning, metmom. How are you?
Actually, no. I know several Colombians who have been granted asylum. There is a civil war going on there, despite the situation in the big cities improving immensely since Uribe took over.
She should go through all the legal hoops no matter who she's married to.
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.
"Fox reported him as a Republican this morning. But if it's buried, he must be a Dem."
The tenth paragraph of the linked article lists the party affiliation of the Senator as Democrat.
The notario thing is suspicious. If he did file an asylum claim without her knowledge and consent than he needs to be prosecuted (hopefully there are laws against that).
Not sure why an asylum claim would be appropriate anyway. Colombia has it's problems, but I don't understand why they would rise to the level of asylum.
Ok, she can stay.
Wow.
In that case, let her stay. :-D
(Before I get flamed...I'm KIDDING!!)
The photo with the Yahoo story:
(Forgot to reply to this part.) No, she was not. She was originally here on a tourist visa, got an extension for that, considered filing for political asylum (and got entangled with the evil notario as a result), then she got a student visa from the college she started studying at, during which time she married the senator. The deportation order was solely a result of the paperwork filed by the notario -- it was a separate process in which she was deemed to be deportable because she failed to respond to the notices sent by USCIS. Deportation orders trump all, however -- usually.
She hid for a couple of days. After agents came knocking on her door (when she wasn't home) saying they were there to deport her.
I think that's an acceptable circumstance to freak out a little bit.
I know, I'm just telling you how Fox had him labeled on the screen this morning. Thanks!
Colombian women have nothing over the women from Brazil.
(Sorry to ruin everyone's pipe dreams of Colombian mail-order brides!)
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