Senators wife may be deported

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Senator's wife faces order to leave U.S. By DANIEL YEE, Associated Press Writer

12 minutes ago

The Colombia-born wife of a Georgia state senator emerged from hiding and turned herself in Tuesday to face a deportation order.

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.

The deportation order stems from Herrera's repeated failure to appear before a judge on the asylum application, which Kuck said she did not know had been filed.

The case hinges on whether Herrera received a notice to appear in court, and whether the asylum application could have been filed without her knowledge, said Victor Cerda, former general counsel for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Thompson, a Democrat and attorney, has been a strong advocate of immigration rights.

According to Kuck, Herrera came to the U.S. — where her parents have been living — on a visitor visa in 2003. She applied for an extension to the visa through a "notario" — a man who claimed he was qualified to handle legal immigration matters — but did not get it until 20 days before the extension was due to expire.

The notario then suggested an asylum application, which Herrera signed, but she got a "bad vibe" from the man and decided not to proceed, Kuck said.

Later in 2004, she was accepted as a student at Kennesaw State University, which got a student visa for her. She then told the notario she did not want anything to do with him.

She met Thompson last year and they got married in April, when he applied for her to become a permanent resident.

But in the meantime, the notario filed the asylum application, listing his address as hers.

Cerda said the deportation order in the asylum case would trump any pending green card application and trigger mandatory detention.

Her decision to hide could hurt her request for a judge's stay on deportation, Cerda said. Now that she has turned herself in, she could remain in the U.S. while her petition is pending, either in jail or released on bond.

[Reba 2]

Well, if even a Senator's wife can't figure out this immigration #######, what's that tell you?

I wonder what his stand is on illegal immigrants?

[Canuck Carrie 1]

Well, if even a Senator's wife can't figure out this immigration #######, what's that tell you?

I wonder what his stand is on illegal immigrants?

Not much info...

http://www.curtthompson.com/comments/index.php?news_id=78

http://www.curtthompson.com/comments/index.php?news_id=76

Edited December 5, 2006 by Canuck Carrie

[Fandango 1,439]

What a cluster! I dunno what to make of all this, but this:

But in the meantime, the notario filed the asylum application, listing his address as hers.

is very telling and does substantiate her claim that she didn't rec the notices. That paperwork has a paper trail that can be followed.

Edited December 5, 2006 by LisaD

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Well, if even a Senator's wife can't figure out this immigration #######, what's that tell you?

I wonder what his stand is on illegal immigrants?

Anytime you see the catch phrases "immigrant rights" and "comprehensive immigration reform" they are code words for "amnesty for illegal aliens".

No matter how you slice it...allowing foreign nationals that have sneaked illegally into the USA illegally and are working fraudulently and illegally against US law...allowing them to stay is amnesty. They cut in line ahead of everyone trying to do it legally and are circumventing the numerical immigration quotas that our nation has agreed to by law. That is the bottom line without the sugar coating.

Like most Senators...he is likely in the hip pocket of modern corporate America and his campaign war chest $$$ is heavily dependent on pleasing the corporate interests that profit handsomely from cheap plentiful illegal labor and immigration quotas in excess allowed by law.

[AnaAndDaniel 0]

I am curious to see what solution is rendered in this situation. Will it differ from rgular Joe Bloe's (ewi/overstay/or whatever legal infraction occurred)wife?

Daniel

:energetic:

Edited December 5, 2006 by AnaAndDaniel

[summersolstice 0]

I am curious to see what solution is rendered in this situation. Will it differ from rgular Joe Bloe's (ewi/overstay/or whatever legal infraction occurred)wife?

Daniel

:energetic:

I just read that an immigration judge lifted the deportation order and a government lawyer said the judge's review of her residency status could put her on track for a chance to become a U.S. citizen.

Rank and power does indeed have its priveleges...

The Democratic senator from Goergia is listed as being a supporter of "immigration rights". As a previous poster said, this is a catch phrase for blanket amnesty of illegal aliens.

[AnaAndDaniel 0]

I am curious to see what solution is rendered in this situation. Will it differ from rgular Joe Bloe's (ewi/overstay/or whatever legal infraction occurred)wife?

Daniel

:energetic:

I just read that an immigration judge lifted the deportation order and a government lawyer said the judge's review of her residency status could put her on track for a chance to become a U.S. citizen.

Rank and power does indeed have its priveleges...

The Democratic senator from Goergia is listed as being a supporter of "immigration rights". As a previous poster said, this is a catch phrase for blanket amnesty of illegal aliens.

why am i not surprised?

Daniel

:energetic:

[almaty 19]

I am curious to see what solution is rendered in this situation. Will it differ from rgular Joe Bloe's (ewi/overstay/or whatever legal infraction occurred)wife?

Daniel

:energetic:

I just read that an immigration judge lifted the deportation order and a government lawyer said the judge's review of her residency status could put her on track for a chance to become a U.S. citizen.

Rank and power does indeed have its priveleges...

The Democratic senator from Goergia is listed as being a supporter of "immigration rights". As a previous poster said, this is a catch phrase for blanket amnesty of illegal aliens.

why am i not surprised?

Daniel

:energetic:

same here....

[Artegal 1]

So this Victim of Immigration Fraud supposedly by this Notorio person will get her Citizenship probably well before my wife does--who came here legally and meets all the conditions of her residency status etc.

This case really stinks--the way I understand it she Sasha Herrera came to the US on a Tourist visa, asked for an over stay extension, got the extension then asked for an Refugee/Asylum visa but then having enrolled in Kennesaw State, then gets a Student Visa, and now she is married to Surprise a State Senator who is also a Immigration Rights advocate--and now she wants to have a CR1/K3 visa. Whoa! And she beats the rap for the first round on Deportation hearing!

Okay so it looks like Ms. Herrera--why she didn't change her last name to that of her so-called-husband--is like a bona fide expert on all the various visa options. Well she does lack the Work Visa I suppose--if she joins VJ I guess she could make Yodrak and Aussiewench look like Newbies with her vast knowledge of the visa process!

Too bad Ms. Herrera is not a world class Canadian Ice Skater or a Cuban Baseball Pitcher that has a 99 mph fast ball--she would have a Green Card immediately--or better yet her US Passport quicker than even a native born citizen.

[sparkofcreation 0]

So this Victim of Immigration Fraud supposedly by this Notorio person will get her Citizenship probably well before my wife does--who came here legally and meets all the conditions of her residency status etc.

This case really stinks--the way I understand it she Sasha Herrera came to the US on a Tourist visa, asked for an over stay extension, got the extension then asked for an Refugee/Asylum visa but then having enrolled in Kennesaw State, then gets a Student Visa, and now she is married to Surprise a State Senator who is also a Immigration Rights advocate--and now she wants to have a CR1/K3 visa. Whoa! And she beats the rap for the first round on Deportation hearing!

Okay so it looks like Ms. Herrera--why she didn't change her last name to that of her so-called-husband--is like a bona fide expert on all the various visa options. Well she does lack the Work Visa I suppose--if she joins VJ I guess she could make Yodrak and Aussiewench look like Newbies with her vast knowledge of the visa process!

Too bad Ms. Herrera is not a world class Canadian Ice Skater or a Cuban Baseball Pitcher that has a 99 mph fast ball--she would have a Green Card immediately--or better yet her US Passport quicker than even a native born citizen.

I don't see how that puts her ahead of your wife? Unless her I-485 was filed before yours. I thought the only thing the judge's decision did was allow her I-485 to be adjudicated. She never had a K-3/CR-1; she met and married her husband while in the US legally on a student visa and filed for AOS from the F-1 or J-1. Which many, many people here on VJ did.

If you'd ever had the misfortune to meet a notario you'd know how much fraud they perpetrate. Working in the courts, it was a nightmare trying to sort out all the trouble they cause--normally the problem was charging people hundreds of dollars, doing the paperwork all wrong, and then absconding and refusing to fix their mistakes, but there were all sorts of things they did and I have no trouble believing at all that there are some who steal the personal data of their clients. And there are many cultures where women do not change their names upon marriage--including in parts of the United States. In New Jersey I hardly knew anyone who changed their name after marriage.

I bet if your wife was accidentally put into removal proceedings because someone filed a change of address without her knowledge [and there have been people on this board who have had that done to them] you'd be raising holy hell about it. But no, just because it happened to someone else--someone who was here legally and followed all the rules and regs, but was unfortunately a victim of identity theft, and someone who is married to someone whose politics you disagree with--you're against it.

Edited December 8, 2006 by sparkofcreation

[Artegal 1]

So this Victim of Immigration Fraud supposedly by this Notorio person will get her Citizenship probably well before my wife does--who came here legally and meets all the conditions of her residency status etc.

This case really stinks--the way I understand it she Sasha Herrera came to the US on a Tourist visa, asked for an over stay extension, got the extension then asked for an Refugee/Asylum visa but then having enrolled in Kennesaw State, then gets a Student Visa, and now she is married to Surprise a State Senator who is also a Immigration Rights advocate--and now she wants to have a CR1/K3 visa. Whoa! And she beats the rap for the first round on Deportation hearing!

Okay so it looks like Ms. Herrera--why she didn't change her last name to that of her so-called-husband--is like a bona fide expert on all the various visa options. Well she does lack the Work Visa I suppose--if she joins VJ I guess she could make Yodrak and Aussiewench look like Newbies with her vast knowledge of the visa process!

Too bad Ms. Herrera is not a world class Canadian Ice Skater or a Cuban Baseball Pitcher that has a 99 mph fast ball--she would have a Green Card immediately--or better yet her US Passport quicker than even a native born citizen.

I don't see how that puts her ahead of your wife? Unless her I-485 was filed before yours. I thought the only thing the judge's decision did was allow her I-485 to be adjudicated. She never had a K-3/CR-1; she met and married her husband while in the US legally on a student visa and filed for AOS from the F-1 or J-1. Which many, many people here on VJ did.

If you'd ever had the misfortune to meet a notario you'd know how much fraud they perpetrate. Working in the courts, it was a nightmare trying to sort out all the trouble they cause--normally the problem was charging people hundreds of dollars, doing the paperwork all wrong, and then absconding and refusing to fix their mistakes, but there were all sorts of things they did and I have no trouble believing at all that there are some who steal the personal data of their clients. And there are many cultures where women do not change their names upon marriage--including in parts of the United States. In New Jersey I hardly knew anyone who changed their name after marriage.

I bet if your wife was accidentally put into removal proceedings because someone filed a change of address without her knowledge [and there have been people on this board who have had that done to them] you'd be raising holy hell about it. But no, just because it happened to someone else--someone who was here legally and followed all the rules and regs, but was unfortunately a victim of identity theft, and someone who is married to someone whose politics you disagree with--you're against it.

Where did I make an objection to anyone's politics--and this case has little to do with politics, its a case of a young woman from Colombia trying to Visa Shop in order to live in the USA with her parents. I mean come on, first you try to extend your tourist visa, then try an asylum visa, then a student visa, and then you get married and try and stay here by virtue of your marriage to an American citizen. And of all the possible men in the USA she just happens to meet a State Senator that is also a Immigration Rights Advocate--this is clearly a case of someone playing the system--and getting a way with it--and she will because she is now connected, oh and not bad looking--don't forget about that ugly and the poor get deported--and beautiful, talented, and rich um well they are held to a different standard.

Edited December 8, 2006 by Artegal

[Ban Hammer 13,340]

So this Victim of Immigration Fraud supposedly by this Notorio person will get her Citizenship probably well before my wife does--who came here legally and meets all the conditions of her residency status etc.

This case really stinks--the way I understand it she Sasha Herrera came to the US on a Tourist visa, asked for an over stay extension, got the extension then asked for an Refugee/Asylum visa but then having enrolled in Kennesaw State, then gets a Student Visa, and now she is married to Surprise a State Senator who is also a Immigration Rights advocate--and now she wants to have a CR1/K3 visa. Whoa! And she beats the rap for the first round on Deportation hearing!

Okay so it looks like Ms. Herrera--why she didn't change her last name to that of her so-called-husband--is like a bona fide expert on all the various visa options. Well she does lack the Work Visa I suppose--if she joins VJ I guess she could make Yodrak and Aussiewench look like Newbies with her vast knowledge of the visa process!

Too bad Ms. Herrera is not a world class Canadian Ice Skater or a Cuban Baseball Pitcher that has a 99 mph fast ball--she would have a Green Card immediately--or better yet her US Passport quicker than even a native born citizen.

I don't see how that puts her ahead of your wife? Unless her I-485 was filed before yours. I thought the only thing the judge's decision did was allow her I-485 to be adjudicated. She never had a K-3/CR-1; she met and married her husband while in the US legally on a student visa and filed for AOS from the F-1 or J-1. Which many, many people here on VJ did.

If you'd ever had the misfortune to meet a notario you'd know how much fraud they perpetrate. Working in the courts, it was a nightmare trying to sort out all the trouble they cause--normally the problem was charging people hundreds of dollars, doing the paperwork all wrong, and then absconding and refusing to fix their mistakes, but there were all sorts of things they did and I have no trouble believing at all that there are some who steal the personal data of their clients. And there are many cultures where women do not change their names upon marriage--including in parts of the United States. In New Jersey I hardly knew anyone who changed their name after marriage.

I bet if your wife was accidentally put into removal proceedings because someone filed a change of address without her knowledge [and there have been people on this board who have had that done to them] you'd be raising holy hell about it. But no, just because it happened to someone else--someone who was here legally and followed all the rules and regs, but was unfortunately a victim of identity theft, and someone who is married to someone whose politics you disagree with--you're against it.

Where did I make an objection to anyone's politics--and this case has little to do with politics, its a case of a young woman from Colombia trying to Visa Shop in order to live in the USA with her parents. I mean come on, first you try to extend your tourist visa, then try an asylum visa, then a student visa, and then you get married and try and stay here by virtue of your marriage to an American citizen. And of all the possible men in the USA she just happens to meet a State Senator that is also a Immigration Rights Advocate--this is clearly a case of someone playing the system--and getting a way with it--and she will because she is now connected, oh and not bad looking--don't forget about that ugly and the poor get deported--and beautiful, talented, and rich um well they are held to a different standard.

it's not just who you know, but who you ___________

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she's not what i'd call a looker

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[Killer_Clown_2009 0]

Well she's lucky it worked out. We had to contact our Congressman here over an issue and they were very helpfu (and I didn't have to sleep with anyone but my husband)!

Edited December 8, 2006 by jane2005