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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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; immigrantlist; immigration
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To: subterfuge
Pelosi will probably select her to head a committee on illegal immigration.
101 posted on 12/05/2006 7:36:15 AM PST by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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To: YellowRoseofTx
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.

Oh, I can stuff it, can I? Allow me to retort and school you in the process.

Full-disclosure: I am married to a Colombian woman, hence my interest in this story. She was here on a non-immigrant visa when we became engaged. We eventually married here -- after she had come and gone to Colombia a couple of times in the process. (Remember this part for when I really school you later, Mrs. Stuff-It-Yourself.)

After our marriage, she returned to Colombia and I applied for her residency visa. That process took six months from the day I mailed the application to the regional USCIS service center to the day she was granted her visa in Colombia.

However, if she had not gone back and forth between Colombia and the U.S. after we were engaged and had just stayed here instead, she "simply" could have applied for adjustment of status (AOS) based upon our marriage and having remained in the country since we met and became engaged.

This is precisely what happened with the senator and his wife here -- they met while she was here and then married. Thus, she never entered the country with the intent of getting married -- which is what my wife would have been doing on her last return trip from Colombia.

Your daughter-in-law could have married your son here and stayed -- it's done all of the time, and it's completely legal, as long as she never entered the country with the intent of marrying him. That's what she should have done.

Don't blame me or the senator's wife because your son was given shabby advice. Feeling stuffed?

102 posted on 12/05/2006 7:36:29 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
Of course this woman should be deported. Why should she get special privileges? She deliberately flaunted our laws by going into hiding.
103 posted on 12/05/2006 7:40:41 AM PST by Jane Austen
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To: King of Florida

Thanks for posting a few facts....


104 posted on 12/05/2006 7:41:27 AM PST by r9etb
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To: King of Florida

I didn't see a party affiliation, so the Senator must be a "D".


105 posted on 12/05/2006 7:42:16 AM PST by Buck W. (If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
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To: From One - Many
I have no sympathy for either of them. They broke the law. My son went through the process with his wife. My son married a lady from Australia. Everything was done legally. For this case, the law was violated. Please don't try to blame the breaking of the law on the notary. Blaming the notary is just plain silly, and suspect at best.

Oh, pish-tush, you have no idea what you're talking about. As I mentioned above, if you meet someone from a foreign country here and marry them, that person is entitled to remain here and apply for adjustment of status. It's only if you met them before they entered the country that they have to go back and then go through the paperwork.

106 posted on 12/05/2006 7:42:27 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: Dark Skies

Looks like she she's smuggling something into the country. 2 things, actually.


107 posted on 12/05/2006 7:43:39 AM PST by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: doc30
In this case USCIS wanted to deport her, but still needed a judge's order.

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...

108 posted on 12/05/2006 7:43:51 AM PST by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: King of Florida
Previous thread. I'm not sure this lady's kept her stories straight.

Ga. Senator's Wife Fights Deportation

109 posted on 12/05/2006 7:44:26 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: toddlintown

Strip search is called for in this case!


110 posted on 12/05/2006 7:44:26 AM PST by Dark Skies ("He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that" ... John Stuart Mill)
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To: Dark Skies
Thant's not her. This is the caption for that pic.

Curt Thompson-Georgia State Senator , Jennifer Martin-GCI Group

This is his wife:

I think you should ask the mods to pull that post.

111 posted on 12/05/2006 7:44:26 AM PST by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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To: Dark Skies

if that's her, she stays. He on the other hand can be sent to Timbuktu.


112 posted on 12/05/2006 7:44:49 AM PST by isom35
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To: King of Florida

So why didn't she follow the law?


113 posted on 12/05/2006 7:44:50 AM PST by From One - Many (Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk)
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To: Dark Skies

Upon further review, the woman stays!!!


114 posted on 12/05/2006 7:46:18 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: raybbr
As I said upthread, those pics are of the same woman (I think). Look at both of them closely. In one pic the woman is made up, has contacts in, is freshly-coifed, and is smiling. In the other, she is tired and not made-up or freshly shampooed.

But both have the same lips, facial structure, nose, and hairline.

115 posted on 12/05/2006 7:47:45 AM PST by Dark Skies ("He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that" ... John Stuart Mill)
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To: 1rudeboy; subterfuge; Constitution Day; Redmen4ever; swain_forkbeard; Diddle E. Squat; ...
That pic is not his wife.

See this post for the pic. She actually looks like a typical feminist/democrat "womyn".

116 posted on 12/05/2006 7:47:53 AM PST by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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To: Dark Skies
Go to the site that carries that pic. It has a caption. He probably likes that look.

Here is the link with the caption.

117 posted on 12/05/2006 7:49:05 AM PST by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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To: Clifford The Big Red Dog

"...The law is the law. No one's above it, not even a state senator's wife..."

The klintons, Swimmer, Jon Scarry, among others would care to differ with your statement. :-)


118 posted on 12/05/2006 7:51:04 AM PST by NCC-1701 (To boldly go where no FReeper has gone before. Live long and prosper.)
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To: King of Florida
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.

I've heard of this before. There's a local tempest in a teapot - roughly the same situation and the illegal is claiming the same thing.

It strikes me as very convenient. Or, is it really common? Can anyone comment?

119 posted on 12/05/2006 7:51:41 AM PST by wbill
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To: Dark Skies
Sen. Thompson is clearly a man of great compassion in his outreach to the needy of Latin America.

And I think he's lost most his female voters.

120 posted on 12/05/2006 7:53:25 AM PST by Tribune7
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