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Who issued the order to remove her frome the country? Also If you can, please tell me which laws, as a legal citizen, I am allowed to ignore. One last question, if Sascha Herrera is so intent on becoming a U.S. citizen, why doesn't she feel the need to assimilate and take her husbands last name? Something like Sascha Thompson or Sascha Herrera-Thompson? I'll bet she never leaves Senator out when speaking of her husband!
...Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrived at her home Nov. 28 with an order to remove her from the U.S. ...

The deportation order stems from Herrera's repeated failure to appear before a judge on the asylum application...

For your first question, she is entitled to due process under the law. TO deport someone, you need an order to appear. And you are entitled to appeal a deportation order.

Secondly, what does changing her last name have to do with the price of tea in China? I know many people, immigrant and U.S. Citizen that do not change their surnames for a variety of practical reasons. That's their business, not your or mine. It is not a legal requirement and it is irrelevant to this case. And she did the proper thing by turning herself in. Botched paperwork, the root cause of this situation, is not something anyone with common sense would hold against someone. I don't see any wrongdoing here. What would you do if you believed you were doing everything properly in a complex legal situation and then found out everything was a mess and your future and your family were on a precipice as a result?

For your first question, she is entitled to due process under the law. TO deport someone, you need an order to appear. And you are entitled to appeal a deportation order.

I am confident that those issues were addressed at the hearings at which Herrera's repeated failure to appear before a judge on the asylum application was an issue.

what does changing her last name have to do with the price of tea in China?

It has nothing to do with tea, China or monetary exchange rates. I was using it to show the extent she is willing to (not) go to assimilate. If you can’t handle that concept, let it go, it is not that important.

What would you do if you believed you were doing everything properly in a complex legal situation and then found out everything was a mess and your future and your family were on a precipice as a result?

I am not sure what I would do, but I am sure I would not go into hiding for 7-8 days while my lawyer dreamt up some flimsy ‘it’s not me it was the other three’ scenario.