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12-30-2010, 01:37 PM #1
Rancho Cordova woman fights imminent deportation
Rancho Cordova woman fights imminent deportation
By Dixie Reid
dreid@sacbee.com
Published: Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 3B
U.S. immigration officials are threatening to send Silva Mamigonian back to Armenia in two weeks, leaving her husband, an American citizen, to decide if he will follow with their two American-born children.
The government says the Rancho Cordova woman entered the country illegally eight years ago and has failed to rectify her immigration status.
A handful of supporters, who gathered Wednesday outside the John E. Moss Federal Building to protest Mamigonian's pending deportation, say she has done nothing wrong and is caught between two federal agencies. They fear time will run out before the matter is resolved.
"It will tear my family apart," Nishan Simonyan said of his wife's possible deportation. "It will be hard on my kids."
Mamigonian, 31, could be deported as soon as Jan. 14, when a government stay on her removal expires.
She was at home Wednesday with the couple's two boys – Maxim, 8, and Michael, 4.
Simonyan and a few family members and friends held up hand-scribbled signs in quiet protest, hoping to get the attention of anyone associated with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is housed in the Moss building.
The couple's eight-year struggle to keep Mamigonian in this country has cost them $100,000 in legal fees, he said.
ICE officials issued a statement in response to complaints about the Mamigonian case.
"When (Mamigonian) arrived in the United States in 2002, she had no legal basis to enter the country. In an effort to gain admission, she presented officers with a passport belonging to someone else and falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen," the statement reads.
Mamigonian's attorney, Gittel Gordon, said Wednesday from her San Diego office: "ICE charged her with that, but it went before an immigration judge. ICE was able to present its evidence that she had made a false claim to citizenship, and the judge decided she did not."
In the meantime, Mamigonian has applied three times for a green card through U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Her application has been turned down twice, and a third attempt is pending.
"The 9th Circuit (Court of Appeals) has ruled that it is contrary to the law for ICE to deport people while they have an Adjustment of Status application pending, as she does," Gordon said.
Mamigonian and Simonyan, who also was born in Armenia, were introduced long distance by family members and corresponded for a while before she moved to Sacramento in 2002. He had lived in Portland, Ore., before moving here eight years ago. He became an American citizen soon afterward.
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12-30-2010, 02:21 PM #2
I don't care in my book if she did not to Ellis island & have a IQ Test & Check Up to if her health was good as for this Green card . I don't by
It . No Amnesty
Close the Border the American are sick Of all the story we also have sad story also but it don't Help us any
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12-30-2010, 02:29 PM #3Mamigonian and Simonyan, who also was born in Armenia, were introduced long distance by family members and corresponded for a while before she moved to Sacramento in 2002. He had lived in Portland, Ore., before moving here eight years ago.
She and hubby were introduced by family members huh? Yep, more of that chain migration.As Aristotle said, “Tolerance and apathy are the first virtue of a dying civilization.â€
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12-30-2010, 02:54 PM #4
Yup legally he deserves his citizenship revoked and sent home with his wife for encouraging Illegal Immigration which is against the laws of our country.
Illegal Immigrants and their Pro Illegal antagonists have lost all respect for the USA and our immigration laws. The only way to stop this is to fully enforce our immigration laws NOW !"A Government big enough to give you everything you want,is strong enough to take everything you have"* Thomas Jefferson
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03-04-2011, 02:56 AM #5
Thursday, Mar. 03, 2011
Rancho Cordova woman facing deportation
By Dixie Reid
U.S. immigration officials have told Silva Mamigonian that she must return to her native Armenia by March 17.
The Rancho Cordova woman faces deportation because she entered this country illegally nine years ago with someone else's passport and claimed to be a U.S. citizen, officials contend.
"The courts dismissed that claim as false but ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) continues to state it as fact," said family friend Russ Reece. "Now the family is falling apart."
Mamigonian and her Armenian-born husband, Nishan Simonyan, a U.S. citizen, have two young sons, who also are U.S. citizens.
Reece said friends and family have helped with the couple's $100,000 legal fees, including a recent $7,000 retainer to Mamigonian's attorney.
A hearing about her deportation is pending before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
"The court is backlogged," Reece said, "and it would be after April before they would schedule a date for the case, and ICE is refusing to extend her deadline."
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03-04-2011, 03:54 AM #6
Bottom line, she's an illegal alien. I'm of the opinion that no illegal alien should be able to change their status to legal immigrant while inside our borders!
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