Missing GI's Wife Won't Be Deported

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Missing GI's Wife Won't Be Deported

Thursday June 21, 2007 5:16 AM

BOSTON (AP) - The wife of a soldier missing in Iraq no longer
faces deportation, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security
spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Army Spec. Alex Jimenez, who has been missing since his unit
was attacked by insurgents in Iraq on May 12, had petitioned
for a green card for his wife, Yaderlin, whom he married in 2004,
Boston's WBZ-TV reported.

Their attorney, Matthew Kolken, said Yaderlin illegally entered the
United States from the Dominican Republic in 2001. Her husband's
request for a green card and legal residence status for her alerted
authorities to her situation, Kolken said.

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The deportation case was closed in May 2006, and there are no
plans to reopen it, said Jamie Zuieback, a DHS spokeswoman.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6724825,00.html

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Earlier LBN thread: Missing Soldier Wife ( says she may be deported as an illegal alien)

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. So many things wrong in the world. One small step. K & R.

:-) for doing the very right thing.

MKJ

[DeSwiss]

2. Homeland Secuirty finally got something right....

...that's one.

[Javaman]

4. Only because the blog-o-sphere got of hold of this. it was virtually absent in the msm. nt

[karynnj]

8. Not true - it was covered extensively and both MA Senators were working on it

- in the government and by speaking to the press. Kerry and Kennedy had far more impact in getting this story out than the blogosphere. There are many things the blogosphere can claim - but here the Senators were working on it.

[Melynn]

3. Good

It's the least they could do. Poor woman has probably lost her husband.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. If the case was closed in May 2006, and there were no plans to

reopen it, why did this sound like they were currently hunting her down? Did someone exaggerate this for emotional appeal?

[Marrah_G]

6. Bingo

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. God, I hope it wasn't our side that did this.

You lose credibility when you try to stir people's emotions using false information, to rally them to your cause. Look what happened to Bush and his color-coded terrorist alarm.

[Recursion]

10. Or

All the attention from having an MIA husband piqued somebody's interest at DHS

[brentspeak]

9. Kudos also to John Kerry and Ted Kennedy, who lobbied hard on Mrs. Jimenez' behalf