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06-20-2007, 11:36 PM #1
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Illegal immigrant, mother of five, continues fight to stay
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article ... yid=257983
Family and friends of a woman who is set to be deported back to Mexico say she'll be able to stay in Minnesota one more week to try and convince an immigration judge to re-open her case.
Sarah Gonzalez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico and mother of five young children, was arrested by immigration officials last week at her home in St. Michael.
Her supporters rallied in front of immigration offices Wednesday in Bloomington. It was a last ditch effort to convince immigration officials to allow Gonzalez to stay in the country she's called home for 15 years.
"We just stay up half of the whole night waiting and waiting to see if they will let my mom go," 13-year-old Joanna Avendano, Sarah's daughter, says.
"We cannot live without our mom. She is everything to us," Joanna's sister, 12-year-old Jennifer Avendano, says.
Sarah remains in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE officials say she was told six years ago by a federal judge that she would have to leave. Sarah decided to stay. That meant she was living in the country illegally.
"We're all heartbroken, we're all destroyed. My kids are scared," Sarah's husband, Nixon Avendano, says.
Immigration officials say there are 600,000 people in the country like Sarah - undocumented immigrants considered fugitives. They've defied a judge's order to leave and it's the job of ICE to arrest them.
"Fifteen years they've been here. They've had steady jobs. They've contributed to the economy," says one of Sarah's supporters, Father Jim Barnett of Holy Rosary Church in Minneapolis.
Sarah's family and other supporters say her case highlights one of the biggest weaknesses of U.S. immigration law - the separation of families with mixed status. While Sarah has no legal status in the U.S., her children are all American citizens and her husband has a visa.
"If you only provide for one part of those members to be here, you will always have family separation. You will always have families torn apart," Kathryn Sharpe, a member of the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Coalition says.
It's a complex system, that's tough to explain to five young children who miss their mother.
"Is that a crime that we love our mom? We just want her back home," Joanna Avendano asks.
Sarah's family claims she's made attempts to legally stay in the country.
At the same time, ICE officials say Sarah has filed immigration papers through the years using different names and false nationalities."Ask not what your country can do for you --ask what you can do for your country" John F. Kennedy
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06-20-2007, 11:43 PM #2
People relocate all the time and I'm sure the kids would adjust to Mexico in no time at all....they're very resillient that way.
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06-20-2007, 11:50 PM #3
I think this is a made up sob story to make us feel quilty, I guarentee you if this lady was being deported, she would have headed to the closed church to hold out for the amnesty or the special interest groups would have been all over this, I am not buying it.
That raid they had the other day, they let all the mothers out of jail!!
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06-21-2007, 12:03 AM #4Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS
Geraldo must've called and let them know the babies were crying for mother's milk.Join our efforts to Secure America's Borders and End Illegal Immigration by Joining ALIPAC's E-Mail Alerts network (CLICK HERE)
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06-21-2007, 12:14 AM #5Originally Posted by azwreathPlease support ALIPAC's fight to save American Jobs & Lives from illegal immigration by joining our free Activists E-Mail Alerts (CLICK HERE)
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06-21-2007, 12:24 AM #6
I missed it.....drat!!! Geraldo needs to just stick with what he knows best which is.........ummmm......hmmmm.......oh yeah!!! Nothing.
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06-21-2007, 12:28 AM #7Originally Posted by azwreathPlease support ALIPAC's fight to save American Jobs & Lives from illegal immigration by joining our free Activists E-Mail Alerts (CLICK HERE)
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06-21-2007, 12:36 AM #8Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS
Would I even imply something like that? It was a vault. And to find anything empty he's got to look no further than that void sitting on top of his shoulders anyway sooooooooo.............Join our efforts to Secure America's Borders and End Illegal Immigration by Joining ALIPAC's E-Mail Alerts network (CLICK HERE)
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06-21-2007, 12:36 AM #9
SOSADFORUS wrote:
Are you trying to say searching empty tombs??"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" ** Edmund Burke**
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06-21-2007, 12:42 AM #10
Oh my gosh that was good wreath LMAO, now we got MW going and and my side is hurting so bad I can't stand it, You to want to read something funny go read what proud wrote in the Hershey thread, I am just busting up!!
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