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Following a blistering barrage of protests from politicians, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the wife of a missing hero soldier from Queens can stay in the United States and apply for permanent residency. "The sacrifices made by our soldiers and their families deserve our greatest respect," Chertoff wrote to Democratic Sen. John Kerry, one of several pols who lobbied to keep officials from deporting Yaderlin Hiraldo Jimenez. She illegally entered the country from the Dominican Republic in 2001. Her husband, Army Spc. Alex Jimenez, 25, has been missing since his unit was ambushed by insurgents in Iraq on May...