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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; immigrantlist; immigration
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To: Dark Skies

So is she really being deported for silicone smuggling?


61 posted on 12/05/2006 7:09:20 AM PST by Diddle E. Squat (An easy 10-team playoff based on the BCS bowls can be implemented by next year. See my homepage.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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.


62 posted on 12/05/2006 7:09:43 AM PST by indcons (indcons - an enemy of islam)
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To: metmom
worry about those here on visas and green cards.

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.

63 posted on 12/05/2006 7:10:36 AM PST by org.whodat (Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
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To: FMBass

Fox reported him as a Republican this morning. But if it's buried, he must be a Dem.


64 posted on 12/05/2006 7:10:51 AM PST by Melinda
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To: wallcrawlr
No, knowledge about rifles and ballistics.

Besides, dogs look silly wearing those....

65 posted on 12/05/2006 7:11:46 AM PST by Clifford The Big Red Dog (Woof!)
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To: metmom

Good morning, metmom. How are you?


66 posted on 12/05/2006 7:12:06 AM PST by indcons (indcons - an enemy of islam)
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To: org.whodat
The very thought that you should be allowed to apply for asylum from Columbia is stupid.

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.

67 posted on 12/05/2006 7:13:16 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: King of Florida

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.


68 posted on 12/05/2006 7:14:10 AM PST by YellowRoseofTx
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To: Melinda

"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.


69 posted on 12/05/2006 7:14:54 AM PST by FMBass ("Now that I'm sober I watch a lot of news"- Garofalo from Coulter's "Treason")
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To: King of Florida

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.


70 posted on 12/05/2006 7:15:22 AM PST by DancesWithBolsheviks (Fatigued with the party always being in my backyard.)
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To: Dark Skies

Ok, she can stay.


Wow.


71 posted on 12/05/2006 7:15:36 AM PST by rightinthemiddle (Without the Media, the Left and Islamofacists are Nothing.)
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To: Dark Skies

In that case, let her stay. :-D

(Before I get flamed...I'm KIDDING!!)


72 posted on 12/05/2006 7:15:56 AM PST by RockinRight (Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. That's his name, and words mean things. Think about it.)
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To: Dark Skies
I don't think that's his wife... probably just a hot intern.

The photo with the Yahoo story:


73 posted on 12/05/2006 7:17:15 AM PST by Teacher317
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To: org.whodat
She was here illegally.

(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.

74 posted on 12/05/2006 7:17:56 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: subterfuge
She is in HIDING, or was for quite awhile.

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.

75 posted on 12/05/2006 7:18:25 AM PST by ReignOfError
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To: FMBass

I know, I'm just telling you how Fox had him labeled on the screen this morning. Thanks!


76 posted on 12/05/2006 7:18:39 AM PST by Melinda
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To: Redmen4ever
They are among the most beautiful women in the world

Colombian women have nothing over the women from Brazil.

www.latineuro.com

77 posted on 12/05/2006 7:19:06 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The way that you wander is the way that you choose. The day that you tarry is the day that you lose.)
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To: Teacher317

(Sorry to ruin everyone's pipe dreams of Colombian mail-order brides!)


78 posted on 12/05/2006 7:19:06 AM PST by Teacher317
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To: Clifford The Big Red Dog
"Who appointed Cassidy?

That would explain a lot if we knew."

Who cares? Does everything have to be a political battle? Our government does not need to be deporting wives of American citizens unless they've done something really wrong and are a threat to society. Otherwise, let the man have his wife. Go find some bad guys and deport them.
79 posted on 12/05/2006 7:19:37 AM PST by TKDietz (")
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To: Clifford The Big Red Dog
Who appointed Cassidy?

That would explain a lot if we knew.


Why? Who cares who appointed him, he followed the law. There is no separate law for Republicans than for Democrats than for immigrants than for citizens.

She's married to an American citizen, unless the marriage can be proved a sham she is allowed to stay here.
80 posted on 12/05/2006 7:19:40 AM PST by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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