This is what I found looking for an Atlanta based Sasha Herrera....I think this is her.
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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That's not here, it is Jennifer Martin-GCI Group.
Both the tourist and student visas are non-immigrant visas. Applying for one non-immigrant visa after having entered on another is not immigration fraud because there is no intent to remain here permanently. That is the key -- whether they enter with the intention of remaining here permanently (e.g., by marrying someone in particular, etc.).
Help me out here as I have a bet with my wife. You're agasint the WOD, right?
"The deportation order stems from Herrera's repeated failure to appear before a judge on the asylum application..."
The one she claimns she never received.
I'm gonna' give her the benefit of the doubt. Why go to the trouble of a making a phoney application with a phoney notario using a fake address, and then not appear for the hearings.
That makes no sense whatsoever.
Yep.
There was a similar case in Iowa. The lawyer who was suppose to be doing the legal work stuffed the papers in a drawer, did nothing, and charged them for his services.
Senator Chuck Grassley's staff probably has quite a box full of information on the sleezy attorney. They might be of some help in sorting this out.
I have a great deal of sympathy for those who tried to do the right thing but were hung out to dry by inept lawyers who failed to carry out the assignments they are paid to do.
Good morning.
I feel OK, now. I came down with a cold last week and the symptoms weren't so bad but I was totally exhausted; like all the energy had been sucked right out of me. Can't believe it's the 5th of Dec. already. I feel like I'm just coming back to life.
Well, it wasn't the wife who broke them. As the judge himself indicated at the hearing this morning, it was the notario who should be prosecuted. And for the umpteenth time, remaining here after marriage and applying for AOS is not a violation of the law, as long as you didn't enter the country with the intent of entering into that marriage (and remaining here permanently).
I have been far more "up close and personal" than you -- I have personally been through this process, filing all of the paperwork myself -- I didn't witness it through a relative.
If you're talking about war on drugs, Well, actually I'm not. I think it has been taken to extremes, but I live in in an area where meth is a problem, and I see what this does to people, and I have no problem with the government intervening.
The reason why I think this way about immigration is because I've experienced it. I married my wife who came here on a student visa that was actually expired. The process was a pain, and it showed me how incompetent the people at the INS are.
My wife is just now in the process of applying for her citizenship after having had her green card for about 5 years. We went to USCIS a couple of weeks ago, and I did see a huge improvement in how they handle the process compared to 1999.
This is what I found looking for an Atlanta based Sasha Herrera....I think this is her.
That's quite a leap you're taking there green. Comparing hiding out until the liberal lawmaker gets things straightened out to the Holocaust? Not a good comparison. Look, everyone on this board knows that she is going nowhere because she is connected. Your post if full of emotional appeals that have no connection to reality, not the least of which being about MY ancestors raping the land. How utterly clairvoyant of you.
"Your ancestors came to this land and raped it and took it away from the people who were here before, and you have a problem with someone who just wants to live here and doesn't want to wait for 3 years before the government gets back to them with a letter stating that they lost their application or that they can't come legally because of some lame reason."
Spoken like a true America hating liberal newbie.
I'm betting you are right. I've never ever heard a conservative use that phrase. (mean spirited)
And there's no shortage of them to keep the INS busy.
The others to go after are those who came here on a visa and have way overstayed it and disappeared.
If I thought someone was coming to forcibly take me away and deport me, I'd probably hide, too. My understanding is that once you're in that situation, it's near impossible to get back into the country because you're considered untrustworthy. However, the illegals who sneak across the Rio Grande in the middle of the night, well.....
So you chose to be legal, this couple didn't. Blaming the notary is so pathetic a cop out. I'll wait to see what happens as will you, but my son and his wife have never been close to finding themselves in this type of trouble. I wonder why? And have you ever found yourself and your wife in this type of trouble? I'm still laughing out loud.
I for one don't know that. She's married to a state senator, not a U.S. senator or U.S. representative. ICE or the USCIS could give a rat's petootie what a state senator thinks or does. Hell, they frequently could give a rat's petootie what a federal lawmaker thinks, as anyone who has tried to have one intercede on his behalf with these folks can tell you. (I haven't but I know some who have.)
"Spoken like a true America hating liberal newbie."
My voting record says otherwise, so you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
Just because I feel this way about this particular issue because I am in the middle of it and I know what goes on, does not make me a liberal.
And I don't hate America, I'm proud of it. But I have a problem with people who criminalize little things just so they can feel holier than others, while the muslim scum is invading us LEGALLY.
I WOULD RATHER HAVE AN AMERICA LOVING PERSON COME HERE ILLEGALLY THAN AN AMERICA HATING BASTARD TO COME HERE LEGALLY (remember Mr. Atta?)
You should stop LOL-ling because it is apparently interfering with your reading comprehension. I'll say it again: it is legal for an alien who has entered the country legally -- which this woman did -- to meet and marry a U.S. citizen and then apply for adjustment of status -- which this couple did.
So this couple did choose to be legal. How many different ways do I have to say it before you understand?
You have the ability to know which one's hate and which one's love America. I'm impressed!
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