NPR: Missing Soldier's Wife Gets Green Card

Missing Soldier's Wife Gets Green Card

Here's an update to the story of the missing soldier's wife who had been facing deportation.

Yaderlin Hiraldo Jimenez, whose husband, Army Spec. Alex Jimenez, has been missing in Iraq since his unit was attacked May 12, has been given a green card after all.

Hiraldo Jimenez entered the U.S. illegally and was facing deportation until those proceedings were stopped. Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry had written a letter to Department of Homeland Security asking that she be given her green card under the circumstances.

5:37 PM ET | 07- 2-2007 | permalink

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Congratulations!

Sent by Sandy | 10:39 PM ET | 07-02-2007

Nice. And she deserves every word on that green card!

Sent by George Kloss | 11:08 AM ET | 07-03-2007

Congratulations to Ms Jimenez, I am glad that she got her green card and can stay in the US. However, imagine how it would make you feel if like myself who entered the country legally, it took the Immigration Services 13 years[yes, thirteen years]to grant myself and my family our green cards. Every time the US Government gives a green card or citizenship to somebody because they can hit a ball or run fast or for that matter get off a boat from Cuba just imagine how that makes you feel when you get up and go to work [legally] pay your taxes and contribute to your community...now that is what a second class "citizen" feels like. Immigration needs to be a level playing field with no special favors or clauses ...everybody should be equal

Sent by julie | 3:41 PM ET | 07-06-2007

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