Just don't make a habit out of it
Posted on 03/06/2008 5:20:54 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Sister Cristina Angelini has been called the heart and soul of Shreveport's Renzi Center, an early child development center run by the Catholic church.
But the federal government might be getting ready to tear that heart out. In a country where there are millions of illegal aliens -- and a shortage of Catholic sisters -- the feds are threatening to make her leave and return to her native Italy.
Exactly why, the government couldn't tell KTBS News today. It might be a bureaucratic mixup.
Sister Cristina got a letter from the government last week, telling her she must leave the U.S. by the end of the month.
She had applied to extend her visa and thought she was approved.
Then the letter from immigration officials arrived.
"I was very shocked and confused," Sister Cristina said today. "I don't know why this happened."
Angelini would not discuss specifics pending a conference with immigration officials later this week. But the reason for the deportation could have something to do with Hurricane Katrina and delays in processing her paperwork at immigration's New Orleans office.
But she and her lawyer are having a hard time maneuvering through the government's red tape.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktbs.com ...
Sister Cristina is finding out what’s it’s like to be a “number” in the U.S. bureaucracy.
“I still have three weeks to fight, so I’m ready to do so,” she said.
A spokesman for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in New Orleans said today that two different agencies handle deportations and resident aliens. It could be that the two aren’t aware of what the other is doing, he said. He said ICE will look into her case.
Parents of students at the Renzi Center are also contacting U.S. Rep. Jim McCrery of Shreveport and U.S. Sens. David Vitter and Mary Landrieu, asking them to get involved.
If she is here illegally, she should be deported. Nun or not.
Looks like a delay in her processing has made it come to this.. but I would agree.
It sounds like a screwup to me. Evidently the bureaucracy lost her papers.
But I would add that the immigration authorities just LOVE hard luck cases. If an illegal has ten DUI arrests and a couple of rapes, they let him out in the street. But if it’s a hard luck case—a nun or a widow or someone from one of the countries that used to send us most of our citizens, then they jump on it.
That’s right..and replace her with a 22 year old secular humnanistic liberal nitwit who doesn’t know dumb from dumber... /s
I thought that with the 12 million illegals they have been deporting none?!
“If she is here illegally, she should be deported. Nun or not.”
She came here legally on a visa. She filed for renewal but it fell through the cracks because of bureaucratic snafus, etc. At least, that’s what I’m hearing from my relatives in Louisiana.
If this is the case then of course she should be allowed to stay until an her case is sorted out in an impartial way. If not she should be deported as all here illegally in our house should be.
Meanwhile our government is bringing in radical mullahs to accommodate the muslim "immigrants" we allowed in.
Regards
Just don't make a habit out of it
She needs some kind of sponser maybe? I'd hate to see her go, since we do seem better off with her, and folks like her, than not.
i guess a quicky marriage to gain citizenship, is out of the question, hehehheh...
She had applied to extend her visa and thought she was approved.
Oh, and then there's this little note:
But the reason for the deportation could have something to do with Hurricane Katrina and delays in processing her paperwork at immigration's New Orleans office.
ZOIKS!
Too bad she’s not a Moslem - she’d not only be invited to stay forever, she’d be given employment to lecture the FBI on cultural sensitivity.
Doesn’t matter. She isn’t legal.
:::rolls eyes::: If you say so.
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