Senators Wife to be deported?

[Limelight]

ATLANTA - 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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061205/ap_on_re_us/senator_s_wife_deportation

Thompson is a Dem... could this possibly be some sort of retribution. My guess is no, but Lord knows I wouldn't put it past some Neocon out there.

[toshirajo]

1. It's in Georgia

where they lie about war heros, and promote an agenda that is counter to most of the US. No surprises here. I hope all goes well for her.