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< Back to current issue of Immigrant's Weekly Dear Editor, I just read this in a letter to the editor:
"He never broke the law, he just stayed longer than one year, and he was illegal, and went back to Mexico to the American Consulate in Juarez Mexico to get his Visa because that is what we were told to do. We would have even beat the April 20th 2001 deadline of the 245 (i). What should I be doing now? I need my husband home." Mrs. Serrano, I am not anti-immigration by any means. Quite to the contrary in fact, as I am filing for my girlfriend's K-1 tomorrow, but did you read what you wrote? Although I sympathize with you due to your pregnancy, your husband was in fact breaking the law by being here illegally, and what you should be doing now is either patiently waiting for the next nine years and six months, or you could immigrate to Mexico to be with him there (just don't overstay, as I believe the Mexican immigration officials are much less lenient with persons who willfully break Mexican law than are US officials). Although US immigration laws are full of bureaucracy and red tape, long lines and (often) subject to personal interpretation by immigration officials, the rules for breaking them are plainly spelled out all over the internet and in many other areas well. Your husband has been subjected to the law, not some unfair, dictorial decision made on a whim by an official in our government somewhere who had it out for your husband. Please refrain from complaining when you(or your husband, in this case) willingly break the law and then receive the punishment the law stipulates you (he) shall receive. If you truly love him, may I suggest you pack your things and move to Mexico so the two of you can be together during your soon to be born child's formative years?
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