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Ga. [State] Senator's Wife Fights Deportation
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Dec 04, 2006 07:36pm |
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| Category | General |
| Media | TV News - Columbia Broadcasting System CBS News |
| News Date | Tuesday, December 5, 2006 01:35:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | State Sen. Curt Thompson has been a strong advocate of immigration rights, once speaking in Spanish from the steps of the Georgia Capitol against the adoption of some of the nation's strictest immigration controls.
Now Thompson's Colombia-born wife is in hiding as federal immigration officials try to deport her.
Sascha Herrera, 28, has 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 her deportation order is a clerical error. He says neither he nor her husband know where Herrera is.
Kuck plans to file a petition to reopen her deportation 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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