Father of Dead Soldier Prays for ‘Papers

by NAM (reposted)

Sat, Oct 13, 2007 9:09AM

Originally From New America Media

Saturday, October 13, 2007 : HOUSTON – Enrique Soriano, the father of a U.S. soldier who was killed in the Iraq war, is fighting to stay in the country despite facing possible deportation, reports the Spanish-language newspaper Rumbo. In early October, Texas Democratic legislator Gene Green introduced a proposal to Congress to give the Soriano family legal residency after the loss of their son.

Soriano, whose wife has legal residency, remains in limbo and says he lives in fear of the knock at the door by immigration authorities. A similar case occurred in New York. Yaderlin Hiraldo Jiménez’s husband was reported as missing in Iraq after an attack by insurgents in May 2007. Twenty-three Congressmembers sent a letter to President Bush asking that Hiraldo Jiménez not be deported. She was able to get her legal residency two months later.

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