Green Card For Missing GI's Wife

(AP)  Yaderlin Hiraldo Jimenez, the wife of missing Army Spec. Alex Jimenez, no longer has to worry about being deported as she awaits word of her husband's fate.

On Friday, Yaderlin walked into a US Citizenship and Naturalization Services Office in Buffalo, New York. She left with a greed card in her hand, guaranteeing she can stay in the U.S. for the rest of her life.

"She was moved to tears," her lawyer Matthew Kolken, who went with her to the immigration office, told the Boston Sunday Globe.

"Her immigration problems have been solved in their entirety and now her focus is completely dedicated to her hope and desire that she's going to see her husband again," Kolken added.

The move came after U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said last month that his agency would "terminate" the deportation case against Yaderlin so she could stay in the country and apply for permanent resident status.

At the time, Chertoff said in a letter to Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., that "the sacrifices made by our soldiers and their families deserve our greatest respect."

Jimenez, of Lawrence, Mass., and a comrade, Pvt. Byron Fouty, 19, of Waterford, Mich. have been missing since their unit was attacked by insurgents in Iraq on May 12.

Jimenez had petitioned for a green card for his wife, whom he married in 2004.

Yaderlin illegally entered the United States from the Dominican Republic in June 2001, paying $500 to a smuggler and walking three days from Mexico to California.

Her husband's request for a green card and legal residence status for her alerted authorities to her situation.

On Friday, the Pentagon changed the status of Jimenez and Fouty from "whereabouts unknown" to "missing/captured."

The change reflects an official determination that the two were seized by hostile forces. The earlier designation is typically used when a soldier goes missing but military officials have not confirmed the circumstances.

The change does not mean the military has gained any new information about their whereabouts.

Kolken said Yaderlin hopes to apply for citizenship so she can eventually vote. She also hopes to attend college, he said.

"She commented about how much she loved this country," Kolken said.

[kevinlong125]

I personally feel relieved the wife of the missing soldier got the break. She doesn't deserve the deportation while her husband is missing from his military duty. It also proves how inadequate the current US immigration law is.

I didn't see any immigration reform opponents making any nasty comments on her getting the green card. But if their argument stands at first place, this lady is a criminal. She shouldn't get any break. I am pretty sure she didn't pay any fine before USCIS gave her the green card as those 12 million illegal immigrants would, had the immigration reform bill passed. She didn't have to leave the country then to apply from Dominican Republic
It simply proves immigration law is a civil law because secretary of DHS can simply authorize her legal status even the law says she cannot get legal permanent residency.

If we say the soldier's wife deserving the break, how about those "illegal" immigrants working under sun, in hot kitchen, on cold floors to build houses for Americans, to feed Americans and keep American clean. What they are doing for this country is just noble as the missing soldier is.

[jt92202]

All persons in the Armed Forces should automaticlly be citizens and their spouses and children under the age of 18 should get their green card, PERIOD!!! If they can lay their lives down for the us then we should give them citizenship. Children should go to the front of the line when they have completed their citizenship papers. The family gives up so much for their spouses/fathers/mothers that that is the least we can do for them.

I do not believe in Amnisty, I say we send all illigals back to their country of origin and they can start their paperwork from there.

BUILD THE FENCE!!!!

[lars008-2009]

non muslims of the world unite... fight against the tyranny of the terrorslam imperialism empire of the darkside...

it is fascist nazi imperialist terrorslam stupid%u2026.

I was a fanatic...I know their thinking, says former radical Islamist
By blaming the Government for our actions, those who pushed this "Blair's bombs" line did our propaganda work for us.
More important, they also helped to draw away any critical examination from the real engine of our violence: Islamic theology.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=465570&in_page_id=1770
Bless the Beasts and Children
Fascist nazi terrorslam kills every man woman and child in the village again%u2026 typical mo for terrorslam%u2026
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/bless-the-beasts-and-children.htm

[lars008-2009]

non muslims of the world unite... fight against the tyranny of the terrorslam imperialism empire of the darkside...

wow... look who is the warmonger.... hahahaha

the war that fascist nazi Islamic muslims started rages on 1400 years later...

The Truth about Islamic Crusades and Imperialism

Historical facts say that Islam has been imperialistic%u2014and would still like to be, if only for religious reasons. Many Muslim clerics, scholars, and activists, for example, would like to impose Islamic law around the world. Historical facts say that Islam, including Muhammad, launched their own Crusades against Christianity long before the European Crusades.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/11/the_truth_about_islamic_crusad.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/2004/08/the_muslim_crusades.html

Islamic origins
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/compass/hico_058.pdf
Origin of Islam
http://www.allaboutreligion.org/origin-of-islam.htm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Origin+of Islam%3A Secular History

Muhammad suicide attempts
http://www.answering-islam.de/Main/Silas/suicide.htm
http://www.answering-islam.de/Main///Silas/fatrah.htm

[agnim]

Isn't it nice when every once in a blue moon the government leaders become alert enough to do the right thing, and cause an overwhelming majority of Americans to stand up and cheer?

That soldier is most likely dead victim of the bushwar and maniac muslims.
However, if he's alive and a prisoner some place, and learn of his wife's Greed Card, you know how uplifting of his spirit that would be for the prisoner? LOL

[agnim]

"I AM NATIVE AMERICAN gonna hate me too???
Posted by clawson44 at 08:49 PM : Jul 01, 2007"

LOL
We want to help you take back your land; but would you be willing to trade in some of the alcohol in order to get back some of your native land? LOL

[randalds]

While reading the commets with ***** I feel like I should be speaking like a robot. What are you guys doing? lol
Posted by dmk3 at 01:08 PM : Jul 02, 2007

It's not the posters fault. The CBS website does that sometimes when it's messed up (which is often). They really should hire some old computer geeks to run the thing for them as the administrators they have now really don't seem to know what they're doing sometimes. It's like when they put up a news story and have a comment section, but nothing that's ever written in it ever gets posted. They're probably a bunch of kids whose high school counselors told them that the future was in in website management, not withstanding the fact that some kids are always going to be awful at it. Computers just ain't what they used to be. Too many people doing it as a job instead of doing it because they like it.

[crystalblue3]

I'm glad she gets to stay. She had petitioned for a green card...at least she's doing something to become "legal" unlike countless others.

The ***talking*** ***like*** ***this*** is VERY annoying...***?

PS: to the poster below me...let me once again point out that "Islam = the relgion of perpetual outrage"

[lars008-2009]

non muslims of the world unite... fight against the tyranny of the terrorslam imperialism empire of the darkside...

FASCIST NAZI ISLAM TO ENSLAVE NON MUSLIM WORLD

HAMAS MICKEY MOUSE SAYS
Islamic rule will benefit Christians and Jews
by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook - May 14, 2007
The force behind Hamas TV%u2019s controversial Mickey Mouse clone said today that his children%u2019s television program will continue to promote worldwide Islamic supremacy, for everyone's benefit, including Christians and Jews.

In a long interview on Hamas TV, Hazim Al-Sha%u2019arawi, Deputy Director of Al-Aqsa TV and one of the creators of the Hamas children%u2019s TV show Tomorrow%u2019s Pioneers, said that using the program to promote Islamic rule over other religions is actually promoting %u201Cjustice, goodness and world love.%u201D

Al-Aqsa TV and the Palestinian Authority have been under fire since PMW reported last week that Tomorrow%u2019s Pioneers was using a character named Farfur, a knockoff of Disney%u2019s Mickey Mouse character, to convey messages about Islamic supremacy as well as hatred of Jews, Israel and the U.S. Despite public statements by PA Minister of Information Mustafa Barghouti that the show would be taken off the air until it could be reviewed and revised, a new episode of the program %u2013 featuring Al-Sha%u2019arawi as one of the hosts %u2013 ran Friday.
http://pmw.org.il/bulletins_may2007.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S995NCeaUg

[dmk3]

While reading the commets with ***** I feel like I should be speaking like a robot. What are you guys doing? lol