Deportation - A True Story - does the penalty fit the crime

DOES THE PENALTY FIT THE CRIME:

In year 1999 a young lady named Luz Marina from Medellin, Colombia met a young american man who sponsored her for a USA K-1 fiance visa so that she could enter the USA for the purpose of marring this man.

In year 2000 with the finance visa in hand she boarded an airplane alone (speaking little english) to make a long trip to a place called California in the USA. After arriving in California she found that her boyfriend was living with another woman and she was not welcome. She seeked refuge with a friend of her family and prior to the K-1 VISA expiring she met and married an american man in California and filed for a change of status.

BIG MISTAKE......First of all her K-1 Visa only allowed her to enter the USA to marry her sponsor and no one else. She nor her husband realized that they were violating the law or any rule otherwise they would have exited the USA married outside the USA obtained the necessary documents and returned or even gone through the K-1 process again.

4 years have passed and this happily married couple now has a 15 month old son (american citizen). Because they married in the USA in violation of the K-1 restrictions the family (as they are a unit) is being deported from the USA. Sure technically the son and husband are USA citizens and they can legally stay but this young woman may be deported without the ability to return to the USA for 10 years.

I ask you what kind of country would see this punishment fitting their crime. She did not murder someone, she did not steal from someone but rather through igorance (and not design) she violated her K-1 visa. Is this really what the USA has became a cold, heartless dictator of non-sense.

As we speak a letter could come at any day with a final date to exit. Luckly, the husband works for a multinational firm (as an engineer) with worldwide office so he is seeking political asylum from countries like Canada and elsewhere asking them to accept their family. Two USA citizens and a Colombian wife having to seek policial asylum from a foreign country because the heartless USA kicks them out on their ass for what ???

This day I am ashamed to admit that I am a USA citizen.

By pointofview on Oct 3, 2004, 05:15 in Friendly Talkzone.

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CarlGoingtoPeriera says on Oct 4, 2004, 01:17: Sam Sad Sad Sam keeps talking about keeping borders intact and the rest of that ignorant persons speech line. You are able to travel on your american passport and live well just about anywhere in the world and yet you are so venemous about other people trying so settle in "your country". when god made earth he certainly did'nt make borders. Borders are man made and are still causing problems around the world. Try thinking outside your little box for once. I hope that couple get the to stay albeit quite frankly I dont know why they would want to stay in a country that has people like you. However thank god her husband is american - it is people like him that make america great and people like you that undo the good that people like him do. America is America because of its tolerance and intelligent use of foriegners who have settled there - colombian,italian, cubans,English, German. so by your standard you are also a foriener. Live and let live man!!Stop being selfish and child like. God bless the world and indeed from my heart god bless you too Sam!!!! Cheers!! 0 funny, 0 helpful.

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