Dear Editor:
I thought I'd share this with you as at the moment the whole situation of being classed illegal is frustrating.
I have been in the USA from England since 1997 always legal. I married in March 2002 a man I loved and we filed the I-130 only. We were in the process of sending in the other paperwork but sadly he died August last year leaving me a widow and now subject to deportation. I made this country my home and I love it here but now I'm waiting hoping for a miracle so I can stay but also selling my stuff to survive every day without him and the means to live. I cannot work. I'm not entitled to his disability. I've become a nobody alone trying to cope with his death at 48 and a world without him. I keep reading reports about the Mexican illegals and maybe giving them citizenship but I don't believe it includes me. As a human being I felt the despair of being handcuffed like a common criminal, taken to be fingerprinted and photographed and now awaiting my sentance. My country are allies to the Americans but believe me we are thought of no better because of it. There is no lenancy. I just wanted to get it off my chest and maybe someone out there will read this and give me hope. Its a lonely life alone in a country that doesn't always welcome you. Come home my family tells me but this is home to me but whatever avenue I take there will always be a great hole inside me not only for my American husband I lost but for a place I do call home. America.
Barbara Lefevre-Smith
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