Thread: Steps Set for IA Kin of 9/11 Victims to Stay in U.S.

Steps Set for Kin of 9/11 Victims to Stay in U.S.
By JULIA PRESTON
Published: April 25, 2008

Federal officials on Thursday opened a path to temporary legal status for illegal immigrants whose spouses or parents died on 9/11, a step the families’ supporters called a breakthrough in the effort to allow them to remain permanently in the United States.

Lawyers for the immigrants said a concession by Homeland Security officials would help to bring the family members out of the shadows. They also said the measure should help clear a political logjam that has stalled bills in Congress that would grant the immigrants permanent legal status.

“For the first time there is a program for these widows and widowers and orphans to change from being undocumented to having a legal presence in the United States,â€

Their spouses, including those who were themselves illegal immigrants, were listed by name as heroes on memorial rosters of the victims. The families received payments from the Victim Compensation Fund, ranging from $875,000 to $4.1 million.

Yet they have lived in uncertainty and fear of deportation, their lawyers said, and could not easily invest the compensation payments because they lacked Social Security numbers and other identity documents.


Yet they had NO problem putting in for the money, did they? They got more money than most Americans will ever see, they should still be deported.

this is just insane . Do Not subject our Nations Soverignty by making Fools of us !! ILLEGAL is ILLEGAL . Can you not say NO to a immgration attorney ? I CAN , it's the law
maybe we need some french men over here . They just took the illegals on stike there to shut up or get out