Think the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service isn’t pursuing illegal aliens?
No, not the 12 million or so blatant illegals from Latin America, Asia and other Third World regions.
Yes, those 40 alien widows of Americans who died within two years of their marriages. They’re being deported.
Or were, until a recent decision by the federal court of appeals in San Francisco, Calif. It overturned the 2004 deportation of a South African woman who had filed for permanent residency after her 2001 marriage.
Although she would apply for American citizenship three years after that, her husband died in a February 2002 car accident. Immigration officials denied her application for citizenship in May 2004—citing the two-year rule.
Complicating the case was the woman’s return to South Africa later in 2004 to care for her aging parents—giving up her right to return to America for 10 years.
Why the official zealousness? Could it be that the South African woman is white—not brown, yellow or black? (14 MAY 2006)
