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02-10-2009, 02:30 AM
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Gisell Torres is a recent Rutgers grad with a finance degree, a stack of academic awards, and countless kudos for community service. She married her college sweetheart. He wants to be a doctor, she a lawyer.

Torres would seem to be writing her own American success story, except she was born in Peru and a happy ending rests in the hands of U.S bureaucrats she has never met.

Barring government intervention, the 22-year-old with a long face and tired eyes must report to immigration officials Tuesday with a one-way ticket to a country she has never seen, a place her father fled when terrorists threatened his life.

The Torres family arrived legally in the United States in 1990 when Gisell was 3. In 1999, the family was denied asylum and ordered to return to Peru in 2002.

But Gisell's parents didn't leave. And they didn't tell their children about that fateful decision to stay.
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02-10-2009, 02:54 AM
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omg. that made me cry . No it really did, i am not kidding. That is so not fair. Why? She has been here since 3. just why?

Another reason why dream act should pass. To stop these tragedies.
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damm that's Just sad.
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02-10-2009, 12:47 PM
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The guy she married wasn't legal either?
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The guy she married wasn't legal either?
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Gisell Torres and her husband, Yoniel Lopez, a U.S. citizen, at their home in New Brunswick, N.J.
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02-10-2009, 02:27 PM
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^There must be something i'm missing because I still don't get why her husband couldn't petition her to avoid all this... Even if she had to face a ban for ignoring a deportation order he still could've helper her out with her papers.
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02-10-2009, 07:13 PM
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I've heard of something like this happening in an TV show that talks about immigration law. The girl got deported back to her home country, the guy followed her but couldn't get her a Fiancee visa cause of the the bar or ban. They asked a lawyer what they can do and the only solution was to get married. I don't know if the same rules apply because this happened about 10 years ago.
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im very angry, i hope 1 day i dont break... and to all those who did this, who aprove of these things, i hope their day will come and suffer... i hope they feel the pain of waking up in the morning without a goal in life.

those who dont know what pain is, will never know how to love...
damn it just damn it, what hurts me the most is that those 2 people love eachother, the most beautiful feeling in the world.
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