He filed for his mother over a year ago . . . . US immigration law permits “immediate family” to get Green Cards in the United States unless there other factors, crime, etc., that prevent a particular person from receiving that benefit. US law and policy often makes special consideration for active military, and most politicians claim to support “family values” ie. respect the value of keeping a family together, helping each other, supporting each other, due to the fundamental ties of love that binds a family together.
You would think that once an application has been filed, the government would not grab a person and try to deport them before processing a valid application. But you would be wrong. Under this administration and the desperate need of our unpopular President to make good on his massive deportation efforts, they grabbed up the working mom and put her in jail, quickly sending her off to a detention facility many states away, lessening her ability to communicate with family or her attorney. When family friends engaged an attorney to help her, no explanation or rationale was provided, and communications became almost impossible.
The remedy is to enforce the law against a government that ignores it for political reasons. So you file with the Board of Immigration Appeals, or with an Immigration Court that might be able to reopen a wrongly decided case. Often the victims of overeager immigration officers are those that have no means to resist their quick unlawful or brutal policies, but sometimes neighbors or friends step in to help.
They claim to target the “worst of the worst” for their enforcement focus, yet their definition bears no scrutiny. Is the mother of a US Navy sailor so defined?
We are now led by a small group of individuals, who by virtue of electoral success, fueled by lies, misinformation, fear-mongering, and well-spent money on social media, occupy the highest offices of our nation. Previously, countless patriots have worked tirelessly to improve our society, to build up institutions that all can respect: to test, to research, to invest, to build, to persuade, to legislate, pass laws all can respect, to educate and to train our civil servants at all levels. Our leaders have not always been effective or inspiring, but they have always tried to lead us towards a better society. It is not easy. Complex, years of work, collaboration, negotiation, compromise, remembering what works and what does not.
We have always sought to elect the “best of the best.” We call them “public servants” believing they serve us all, so many, at all levels, in communities, cities, states, our armed forces, the many agencies, the police, and public organizations designed to support the complexities of our individual lives, our families, our schools, our security domestic and international, our compassion for others, and our sense of justice. Not so, anymore. Now we must confront, we must resist, we must sue, report and expose what we can now truly, and unambiguously, call “the worst of the worst” . . . not a mother languishing in detention, but those who purport to lead.