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“To protect and serve” themselves.

“means of support” for a temporary visit could include affidavits from whoever she’ll be staying with that they have incomes and/or property enough to house and feed her while she’s visiting. (my mother-in-law signed such for me when i filed for my green card and work permit. they should be expired by now, finally… she had to put a ten-year time limit on her affidavits, because i was immigrating.) if your niece is staying in hotels, then proving she holds enough cash to pay for them should do it. return tickets, if arriving by air, are good too.

When Al Gore debated Ross Perot over NAFTA and Perot gave his famous line about that sucking sound being American jobs disappearing he was half-right. Manufacturing jobs have disappeared overseas. But the trade deals have destroyed the small Mexican farm by undercutting the price of corn. The oligarchy of Mexico is protected by siphoning off a potential source of social unrest, the undocumented workforce coming into America further weakens the American working class. Both ruling classes win!

As an aside, from my personal experience as a labor organizer in San Francisco (admittedly not the same as the Deep South) most whites (as were most of any ethnic or racial background) were quite agreeable to being unionized and readily recognized their lot as the same as other workers. There were always a few immigrants who thought they could do better by cutting their own deals, but it had more to do with their individual class presumptions from their former status in the old country. In the eighties there was some hesitation from people who had come from a country (like Central America) where union-organizing was a capital offense, but mostly people understood how unions could protect them on the work floor and in contract negotiations.

The sixty-year war against organized labor in this country, of which trade law is a major part, destroys both the working class here and the working class in foreign countries. When we end up debating just the execrable treatment of a woman who is here “illegally” we have avoided all the history that has put the woman in the position we now find her. Instead of seeking to blame southern whites for feeling their value as workers is being reduced (why is supply and demand so hard for some to understand?) better to understand and attack the real problem.

Wha?

She wasn’t staying, she is just visiting for 1 month.

But I thought ICE wanted aliens to vist and then go home. Are they saying that they think she’ll skip?

She’s 21, in college and living at home. She has a life back home - And she’s devestated.

Almost everyone else got visas but her. My BILs passport hasn’t come back yet. But even if he does get a visa he is not going to use it and stay with my niece as a supportive move. He is requesting his passport back so he can get visas to go “some where else” - so she get’s to do something special.

They only care if your white . . . how many other girls have disappeared since Holloway but have received no little to no coverage and are non-white? Yelling about being undocumented is only a cover . . .

Is there anything pending on the ex about haboring an undocumented illegal alien? Just marrying a US citizen does not make a resident alien legal - as my exhuband found out. For all his faults as soon as he understood what the law was he busted his tail to get his Mexican wife’s status changed to Legal resident alien …

He even threatened me to give him copies of our divorce papers cuz he has “lost” them. I would have given him copies anyway, he didn’t need to threaten me.

If you bothered to read the original post, Miller, the issue wasn’t that the police dealt with the assault but were unfortunately obligated to throw this woman back into the Kafkaesque immigration system afterward.

Part of the pain of breaking the law is people who know you are breaking the law get to take advantage of you

If we follow the implied rule here that if you make a crimminal complaint you are “safe” from arrest, then all one has to do to avoid a warrant is to claim a crime was committed against them.

Think about this guys.

It’s not that she was a woman, or brown, or illegal.

It’s that she was a police officer’s abused spouse.

Most of the information regarding Emelina can be found here:
> http://www.thesqueakywheel.com/complaints/2007/JUN/complaint14800.cfm and
> by following the links
> at the bottom of the complaint. You may also get info from:
> http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-deport29jul29,1,147… ,
> http://www.atlantalatino.com/detail.php?id=7732 ,
> http://www.cbs46.com:80/video/13560651/index.html ,
> http://www.mundohispanico.com/locales/content/locales/articulos/0705_art…
US Constitution / 14th Amendment: “…nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Also note that Under the new Georgia law SB 529, it requires that a person booked into jail on a felony or DUI charge be verified for lawful status in the United States. Emelina was not booked on a felony, she was booked on domestic violence. Also, Immigration and Customs Enforcement will put a hold, not to extend beyond 48-hours, on any person of interest, but Emelina was held for 2 weeks in Carrollton before ICE took custody and moved her to Alabama.
We have an attorney for her and her attorney is looking at the Violence Against Women Act angle. The problem with that is the proof. Remember, her x-husband was a cop and therefore she did not call the cops for help. We do however have a couple of witnesses that witnesses various acts against her, like when he threw her and their daughter out of the car for example. But we still don’t know if that will be enough without police reports to back it up. Catch 22 unfortunately.