About a week ago, I blogged about the plight of soldiers who have immigrant spouses, specifically referencing an article about Army Spc. Jack Barrios, who was agonizing over his wife’s pending deportation, while dealing with post-traumatic stress. The LA Times had a positive update on his story today, noting that Frances Barrios, wife of Jack, received humanitarian parole and will be able to apply for a green card. This is a positive step for our troops who have immigrant spouses. Hopefully, the other situations like this will be worked out similarly.
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1 Reyfeo // Nov 7, 2009 at 4:03 am
First, I’m glad this has worked out for the Army Spc.
Second, it was a non-issue to begin with…the Army (US Gov that is) is in no mood to have immigration black eyes in these times especially with thsi issue (c’mon they may be ignorant at times, but they ‘re not stupid).
That said, I like how this website (and left of center Liberals) likes to exploit these issues for the sake of highlighting “immigration reform”…nice try. I don’t think there is one case where any wife of any Armed Services Member has had a spouse deported (while deployed to war).
2 theKaiser // Nov 7, 2009 at 1:48 pm
You are definitely the picture definition of ignorance Reyfeo. Thank you, Latinopoliticsblog for shining a light on this subject. It was probably the blogsphere who drove public opinion in that direction.
3 Reyfeo // Nov 9, 2009 at 5:48 am
I assure you this website and or any other you can point to had absolutely nothing to do with the Army (and NObama) keeping itself out of the media spotlights on immigration (BTW, I’m sure there’s a CSAR for this specific case)…if you don’t at least give that a thought, then perhaps you’re not as bright and I’ve been giving you too much credit.
This, albeit a sad and true case of immigration dilemmas, are the nuggets you and your cronies keep trying to surface to get this incompetent congress and it’s inexperienced leader (NObama, just in case I lost you somewhere) to act on immigration reform at any level, especially immigration reform. Good luck with that.
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