Since September 2008 I have been following the story of Hotaru Ferschke, the Japanese born Marine wife whose husband died in Iraq. She and her husband were married by proxy while he was serving in Iraq. Hotaru was pregnant with his son. Immigration has since denied the mother permanent residency in the United States.
If you want to read more Hotaru, there are many good articles and blog posts on the internet. I can't recall seeing one that defends the actions of United States Immigration.
The publisher of the newspaper in the Ferschke family hometown wrote an excellent column about how insane immigration is in the United States. I agree with every word he said. An illegal alien might get to stay in this country and the marine widow won't. What is wrong with this country???
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Time for Americans to take over
Monday, June 7, 2010 3:39 PM CDT
GLENN HARBISON, PUBLISHER
A student at Kennesaw State University is being allowed to stay in America illegally so she can finish her degree.
The widow of a U.S. Marine killed in Iraq was deported and is not being allowed to return to this country because she is not a citizen.
The Kennesaw student is Mexican. The widow is Japanese.
Jessica Colotl is the 21-year-old student from the school in nearby Cobb County who has attracted national attention.
She was first arrested in March on the KSU campus and charged with a minor traffic offense. Reports say she told the officer she had a Mexican driver’s license, but could not find it. She showed him a Mexican passport that expired in August 2007 as identification.
Colotl was arrested the next day and turned over to immigration authorities.
The law says she should have been deported.
But, immigration officials agreed to delay her case for a year at the urging of Kennesaw State University officials, Colotl’s friends, and several advocacy groups.
Since those first events, the illegal Mexican immigrant has been charged with a felony for giving false information to police. She failed to put her correct address on a Cobb County police report - she lied to police.
Here is an adult who admits to being in this country illegally. She is charged with two crimes, one a felony.
Further showing her disregard for America and its laws, Colotl has been paying in-state tuition to attend a Georgia college. This too is a crime, since federal laws are clear that it is illegal for those in this country illegally to receive any public benefits. In-state tuition is subsidized by taxpayers. She must have known this was wrong, since she has readily agreed to pay out-of-state tuition to continue her education.
Colotl has no respect for America nor the American justice system. She criticizes the system to make herself sound like a victim.
The normal bleeding hearts, and a few new ones, are rushing to help her. The ACLU, the Southern Center for Human Rights, the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights are all fighting for Colotl to be let off the hook and allowed to stay in the United States.
Now, look at how the widow of a U.S. Marine is being treated.
Sgt. Michael Ferschke of Maryville, Tenn., just outside Knoxville, died in Iraq in 2008. He was killed fighting for freedom, defending America against its enemies.
He and his wife, Hotaru Ferschke, were married by proxy while he was in Iraq and she was in Japan. About five months later, their son was born.
Under normal circumstances, Hotaru has every right to be in America. Yet, tucked away from the Cold War is a U.S. immigration law that says marriages must be consummated before they are recognized.
The couple had a child. The consummation obviously took place. The act just did not follow the law’s time line.
Hotaru’s in-laws in Maryville want their son’s widow and grandchild here. Their son, the war hero, died fighting for his family’s right to be here.
Tennessee lawmakers have sponsored legislation in Washington that would allow the family to be together. But, that legislation is stalled in the U.S. Senate. There is little hope of its passage because the Senate has decided to do virtually nothing during this election year.
Hotaru and the child were allowed to stay with the in-laws in Maryville on a temporary visa, but they have now been forced out of America. They are back in Japan.
They committed no crime. They followed all the rules. Yet, they have been thrown out of America.
Where is the outcry for the family of a dead United States Marine? Where are the voices fighting to remember a fallen soldier by extending rights to his family that he earned by his death? How can an admitted Mexican law breaker have more rights than a war hero’s widow?
It is time for Americans to take this country back from those who are destroying it from within. Otherwise, all law abiding Americans can be expected to be treated like criminals, while criminals are treated like victims.
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My niece is married to a young man from Tokyo
...even with him going through the proper channels and being already married to an American citizen, it has taken him nearly a year to be reunited with her after finally getting the 'correct' immigrations status. My heart aches for the widow and child; I hope at least that the Senate wakes up long enough to vote on this...it won't cost them a dime, unlike so much of the other stuff they okay on a daily basis, and it will actually accomplish something worthwhile.
She was born for all the wrong reasons but grew up for all the right ones.
Con grande amore e di affetto, Andrea Lena
Love, Andrea Lena
Problems in the Immigration...
system are many. A former colleague married a girl from eastern Europe. They've been married 10 years now (maybe more). She initially came here on a visa (which has sense expired). She went through naturalization process, but they moved mid-way through (to follow his job). Their change-of-address letter apparently passed in the mail a letter from the INS directing her to appear for something (I've forgotten exactly what). The letter was returned (not forwarded by the post office). The INS received the change-of-address letter, but apparently the folks that receive these things and those that process the other don't talk or use the same records. The net result is that her failure to appear put a "deport" flag on her. She can't renew her visa. Their 7 year old child IS a US Citizen (born here and one parent is a citizen). Her Brother is a naturalized citizen - and served in the US Marines. Letters to Congressmen, even visits to their offices, have no effects.
There is immigration reform legislation before congress. It's far from perfect, but if enacted AND enforced, it goes a LONG way toward fixing problems. It's supported by very diverse groups. HRC and many other LGBT groups; Church World Service; etc.
But, back to my colleague, so far, his wife hasn't been deported, but they live in constant fear that any day may come the knocking at the door, any day her medical benefits may evaporate, etc. And, this is not someone that TRIED to break the law. This is someone that tried to follow every letter of the law, and got caught in a paperwork loophole that nobody wants to fix.
Anne
P.S. Another example (but one that had a happy ending - but only because the person pushed the right button). The spouse of one of my cousins is a Portuguese national. She was born at Walter Reed Army Hospital (yes, here in the US) but was not a US Citizen (reason will follow). After they were married and had resided here for a few years (two kids & husband not traveling over seas with the Navy any more), she attempted to become a US Citizen. Her application was rejected. Why? The people processing it insisted that she was a US Citizen. It took a personal visit and insistence that she talk to the processor's supervisor and then a LOT of work to get them to acknowledge that she was right. She wasn't a citizen so she could become one (& things went properly thereafter). What was the problem? Her father was here on diplomatic duty. Apparently that's the "exception" accepted globally. Children of diplomats are not granted citizenship in the countries they are born, unless they happen to be back in their home country at the time. That little "loophole" came close to putting her at risk. It took finding someone that would listen to her, and then DIG through the regs to confirm her story and then facilitate things thereafter to become a citizen.
problems in the Immigration
I retired end of May 2003 here in Minn/StPaul from Immigration( which by the way does not exactly exist anymore). The last 5 yrs I worked in the Bloomington office even though I was assigned to the airport, the office had one airport officer assigned on a temp basis to handle cases that were refered to Mn from other ports of entry and any issues that applied to issues relating to Inspection generally, most INS offices had a similar posting. My bosses discovered that I had a very broad level of experience and kept giving me more and more difficult cases to unwind and solve which they had not the time to involve themselves with, much like the case you mention. Long story short, the position really does not exist but a few of us had a loose unofficial network over the entire USA and since we were all old timers(I hate that label)we worked to help many that could not be helped by the SYSTEM. The system places stress on approvals with very little room for complicated or denials. Management bonuses are based on making goals and goals are based on approvals and speed, and problem solvers were getting rarer and rared as time went by. I had contacts in many offices local and in other countries. my local Distric Direct laid down a set of simple instruction to me, any one with a problem not capable of being handled by the information section was directed to me and I was to personally interview that person or persons myself promply, only my many years of experience and contacts in the organization allowed me to accomplish anything and I did help many people both locally and in other cities around the country. Back to your problem. As the officers I worked with have retired and the INS was broken into pieces by both the Clinton and Bush administrations and Homeland Security reorganized Customs and what was left of INS the ability of the people left to handle the case load has suffered and there is to my knowledge none of the problem solvers left. We did not like policy and buracrats but we were the last of the reliably honest loners and now all the people left are hamstrung with checks and balances which make even easy cases hard with little time for the cases like yours to be handled. I worked once in Helena, Mont. with an adjudicator for about 3 to 4 months and he let me do as much as I could do to help him but he still had 3 full file cabinets of problems and denials as backlog. The congress is really to blame for most of the problems every time a congressman gets a notion a new law comes out and many cause such major ripples you would not belive it, and then the courts get involved(heck Calif Fed courts used to refuse INS cases because they declared them political not judicial)and you can see how the officer corps is run ragged..I really do feel your pain Retired Special Operations Inspector Bruce L, Meier Minn/St Paul
This is a real case
A few months after I was assigned to staff the Duty Officer position(unoffical remember)one of the third floor bosses came to my office and said to me that he heard I could get some things done faster that the system allowed, and orally told me of a family in Intl Falls that had somehow contacted him about a replacement for a lost "green card" which he had tried to investigate for the last 18 months, Not only could he not find the application he could not find the subjects alien file. As he concluded his statement I pressed a speed dial button on my phone pressed intercom waited a few rings and a fellow officer answered at the Nebraska INS center. Quick chit chat and I asked if this person had the file, yup, asked if he had the application, yup..I them authorized the phone approval(no such approval is auth then or now...hehe) asked how long till the card would be mailed he said next wed ok? I said fine...hung up total time less than ten mins,,,bosses jaw was down around his knees and I won a convert to my contacts...lololol
Damn I could do this all day, please forgive me
>> which by the way does not exactly exist anymore
Indeed.
I think it's a plot. My sister used to work for the Veteran's Administration in charge of "difficult cases." She was constantly pressured for speed, speed, speed, and they were just beginning the "outsourcing" project, which cut all the civil service jobs and replaced them with "private contractors" (gangs of minimum wage idiots) off the street who promised to "bring down costs" by making sure veterans didn't collect much of anything not mentioned in the Bible.
A lot of people think that the government messes with people's lives, without realizing that most of the messing these days is done by good old private enterprise on the public dime.
Cheers,
Puddin'
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--- The Chicago Manual of Style
Keep it Simple
Why try to spread the blame to the wrong people? You may not understand what I am saying so maybe I can make an analogy.
A man walking his dog is run over in the street by a drunk driver and killed but his dog survives. The city does not spend any time trying to find out who might take the dog but simply decides to euthanize it. Someone protests to the city, "You're going to kill this dog but every night a cat comes into my yard and craps in my flowerpots. Why don't you hunt down that cat and kill it?"
Cat haters read this and get incensed. Some of them propose building a fence to keep all cats out of the city. Others want to call the army in to hunt down the cats with rifles and tanks. A few sit on rooftops with their own guns hoping to get a chance to shoot a cat illegally taking a crap.
Meanwhile, the drunk driver gets re-elected to city council.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
One Way It Should Be Settled
If the idiots at INS have any question about whether the child is the son of a Marine, there are DNA tests that will prove it. The mother and child will be eligible for survivor benefits and the child deserves to be considered an American. Every time an illegal alien comes here from Mexico and has a baby, the child is automatically considered a citizen. Most of the fathers aren't even American and still their newborns qualify. The child and wife of this Marine are even more entitled to benefits. It is time the U.S Senate gets off their asses and actually do something right for a change.
>> the idiots at INS...
Are enforcing "get tough on illegal immigrants" laws passed by the idiots in Congress to appease their idiot constituents who wanted the laws as tough as possible. Garbage in, garbage out.
Cheers,
Puddin'
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How about
Putting the various branches of the military in charge of the spouses of serving military personnel? At least they'd understand a little better the situation faced by this young woman. Couldn't be any worse than the civilian bureaucrats. IIRC, the military has to approve the marriage of active duty personnel, they could issue the proper documents the spouse would need. At that point they could take citizenship classes or remain with permanent residency status.
Karen J.
"Being a girl is wonderful and to torture someone into that would be like the exact opposite of what it's like. I don’t know how anyone could act that way." College Girl - poetheather
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
Okay...
I'm a Canadian and even I think this is wrong on an large level. I'm much more in agreement with Erin's comment. I'll say this though in my view there's a lot of BS that the servicemen and their families go without the same level of help from the same organisations that helped the young Mexican girl just because of a political bias.
I'm not saying the Mexican girl didn't deserve her chance at education but she did break a law that's supposed to be serious. Maybe someone should get her legal team to help the Japanese lady.
Bailey Summers
What the problem is that the
Samirah M. Johnstone
And the officials and legislators in Arizona...
...are actively thumbing their noses at our treaty obligations, the highest law of the land, under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which guarantees all American Citizens the right to speak the Spanish language in schools, courts of law, employment, and every day existence in California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and parts of Wyoming. The State of Arizona flouted that law by establishing English as the official state language in 2006, thereby demonstrating their racist hatred of Latin Americans and their lawless hostility toward persons of colour. Shall we arrest and deport them all? While we're at it, why don't we do the same to the bigots who voted for it? We could call it neighborhood improvement.
Cheers,
Puddin'
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Shabby Argument
The idea of promting English (or actually American) as the official language does not automatically make anybody in favor a racist. For one thing, in the current economic recession it simply makes good economic sense. Countries withdraw from treaties all the time, for many reasons, but usually spurred by self interest.
Wanting to control immigration does not automatically make someone evil or bigoted. The current immigration laws suck and are in bad need of overhaul. And of course we trust the people in Washington to do this fairly and impartially, after which the laws will be enforced in a fair and just manner.
What I do know is that inflamatory rhetoric on both sides makes it difficult for men and women of reason to sit down and try to settle things properly. Calling people names isn't going to help. I don't recall who said it, but I am reminded of a saying: "Always leave room for your enemy to become your friend".
I went outside once. The graphics weren' that great.
>> Countries withdraw from treaties all the time
States don't. Since the treaty sets out the southwestern boundaries of the USA, it would be a difficult treaty for the USA to withdraw from, since it would require negotiating the return of California and most of the SouthWest to Mexico.
The Atlantic
The group behind the law in Arizona, the Immigration Law Reform Institute (ILRI) is affilaited with Federation for American Immigration Immigration Reform (FAIR).
This is the same state that had white drivers driving by an elementary school shouting racial epithets at the children because the school had the shocking bad taste to include Black and Hispanic faces on a mural featuring the actual faces of some of the children attending school. Good golly, though, no racism there. The drivers were just exercising their free-speech rights to terrify small children using random words selected from a very small dictionary.
Cheers,
Puddin'
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Bit of a stretch
A quick look at Wikipedia* show that this 160+ year-old treaty was substantially and unilaterally modified before being ratified by the U.S. Senate. Also it was a peace treaty imposed by the U.S. on Mexico. The clause about language is not mentioned on Wikipedia (which doesn't surprise me) but given the other provisions (many of which were subsequently removed before ratification) it looks as if the Spanish language provision might have been intended to apply to the then "current" Mexican residents of the territory annexed by the United States. If so, then it would no longer apply, I suspect.
Then you go to the AZ law. Just how does this affect the situation involving the Japanese wife of U.S. Marine killed in the line of duty and their child? Answer: it doesn't. I think Erin made that clear in her little story/parable.
Just in passing, the are plenty of laws already on the books that make the behavior of those drivers a criminal act. There certainly isn't any provision in the Arizona law that offers more or less protection to these children than they had before.
In short, you keep attempting to drag in the situation in AZ when it clearly has no bearing on the widow of a U.S. soldier.
It would appear hatred and intolerance is not strictly the province of the Radical Right. The Liberal Lefties spout plenty of it also. What part of "Always leave room for your enemy to become your friend" needs clarifying? If both sides continue to spew hatred at each other, the divide in this country will only grow worse.
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo
I went outside once. The graphics weren' that great.
The relevant article
The relevant article is:
ARTICLE IX
The Mexicans who, in the territories aforesaid, shall not preserve the character of citizens of the Mexican Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States. and be admitted at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States) to the enjoyment of all the rights of citizens of the United States, according to the principles of the Constitution; and in the mean time, shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty and property, and secured in the free exercise of their religion without; restriction.
and the relevant passage is: shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty
There was a US Supreme Court decision in 1848 that held that in the context of the treaty, "liberty" included their language and customs. Shortly after ratification, the new States of California and New Mexico passed laws confirming this understanding by making Spanish and English co-equal, and New Mexico wrote a requirement into its Constitution that required all school teachers to be fluent in Spanish as well as English.
http://www.quaqua.org/guadalupehidalgo.htm
This has rankled the racists for years, and you can find white supremacist sites by the score "proving" that, because the word "language" is not used, the guarantee meant nothing. California, once a hotbed of KKK activity, passed the "Greaser Act" in 1855, which aimed to make Mexicans and American Indians second class citizens at best. Numerous local ordinances attempted to do the same.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greaser_Act
There's a saying in American Indian circles to the effect that the promises of the white men are like the reeds in the waters or the sighing of the wind.
And there's a difference between describing the law and describing the actions of lawless criminals and liars.
Most people aren't proud of being thugs, but it takes all kinds, one supposes.
Cheers,
Puddin'
They made us many promises, more than
I can remember, but they kept only one;
they promised to take our land, and they did.
--- Red Cloud
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There's a similar case here in California
Fremont woman, son face deportation to Russia
05/26/2010
FREMONT (CA) — Russian-born Tatiana Miroshnik came to Fremont 13 years ago with her then-3-year-old son to marry a California man she had met in her homeland. But the couple divorced after Miroshnik caught her husband writing to other women and it became clear he was not interested in being a father to her son, she said.
Friends of the family hope the government will pardon Miroshnik and her son, Eugene Kotelnikov, who have received orders to return to Russia by June 18. If deported, Miroshnik would have to leave behind her U.S.-born daughters, Tatiana Martinez, 10, and Nastasia Martinez, 8. The daughters are from Miroshnik's second marriage, which also ended in divorce.
In addition to ripping apart the family, a deportation would mean throwing Eugene, now 16, back into a world where the language and culture is unfamiliar and where, in two years, he would be forced into the Russian Army.
"I feel like an American. They want to deport me to Russia, which is foreign to me," said Eugene, whose favorite bands include Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith and Journey.
An honors student at Fremont's Washington High School, Eugene volunteers regularly at a retirement home and ran track and field for his school this past season.
"We're not a liability to society," he said about his family. "We're not breaking any laws. We pay our taxes."
Miroshnik said her first husband never told her when she was to appear in court when she was applying for a green card. That failure to appear in court hindered her chances of obtaining permanent residency, a process further hindered after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
"My court date was postponed and postponed and postponed," she said.
After Miroshnik's second divorce left her as a single mom, she launched her own music company, giving private piano and violin lessons.
"All this time, I was able to support myself. I built up my business. I was never on welfare. I was able to pay my bills, pay for my car, pay for my apartment," Miroshnik said from her Centerville apartment, where she walks around with a GPS ankle bracelet.
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I've never met her, nor corresponded with her, but I have written to both my old congressman, and my new one ( I'm moving ), and my US Senators. I feel this is another travesty of justice. It does not appear she came her to get married, just to get into the US. And THAT is what the law she ran afoul of was meant to stop.
Holly
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Holly
The "Real Story" By the man who brought her to the US
What you don't know..... The deception needs to stop! It is hurting those who have come in contact with Tatiana, How? By this woman who is so naturally adept to pulling the wool over the eyes of others by taking advantage of the generosity, goodness and sympathies all while playing her full scale violin and a sad, sad song of encountering "horrible husbands, bad luck, an unfair US govt", and more... all the while saying with her big brown eyes a natural face of innocence in her Russian accent "What did I do wrong; we did nothing wrong, we re good people" Well... let me (her first American husband) share the side only a husband would know. As they say on Fox news... "We report the facts, you decide" For those of you who know her? ..what I share with you may seem 180 degrees in contrast to the person you know. This is why it is so hard for the truth to be accepted and should only as a testimony to you just how good this woman really is in her deceit and lies. Of course all of what I now say can be verified by those who were involved in the story I now share.
I (ME) was the one who filed for divorce from this woman 6 months after I brought her and her son (Eugene)to the US. We were married in Oct of 97 and by April of 98 the divorced was finalized. My friend and I went to Russia to look for a wife (along with some 80 other American Men all on the same plane) who all read brochures on how Russian women were very family oriented, loving, caring etc. and but for bad circumstances (shortage of Russian men due to many wars, drunk abusive husbands etc.) these women were single. Could this be true? Its not. It is the ploy these agencies use to get American Men into Russia at a cost upwards of $5000.00 for a 12 day stay where you are introduced to hundreds of Russian women in a large banquet room of a large hotel.
I had seen Tatiana's photo in a catalog (among others) and began to write her... which led to phone calls and an eventual meeting in Moscow's Cosmos Hotel. When I first laid eyes on her, she look so sad and down trodden. I thought "this will never work". Compared to the other women she was not much to meet the eyes. But I said I would meet her and I did and on top of that (my mistake here) I didn't want to turn her away and hurt her. I FELT SORRY FOR HER... (as have all of you) after all, she traveled 8 hrs by train to see ONLY ME!
She told me in her Russian Accent" I come from Nishney Novogorod only to meet you and no one else. (yea... right!) We men can be so gullible when it comes to someone who falls all over us... we loose the capacity for rational thought (as do many women)
As time grew close to the tour ending and having different dates to get to know various women, Tatiana wanted to come to my hotel room. Before I say anything else, let me tell you I am a devout LDS Christian who believes in sexual relations only within the bonds of marriage!
I didn't think there would be harm in allowing her into my room, knowing my standards and that typically, if anything would take place, it is usually the man who initiates. So I had no reason to think different would take place. Regardless, I was tired and wanted to have a short nap before the next tour. She said she was tired too so to the room we went. In no time at all, she was attempting to unbutton my shirt, which I objected to and prevented. However this did not detour her... she persisted and pushing me back flat on the bed, continued. Still I resisted. Finally since she could not get my close off, she proceeded to take hers off and got on top of me. At that point I gave in... I am after all a man and human... DARN IT! (I am not one who likes to give in to physical lusts but allow my spirit to control physical appetites.)
Were I stronger, I should have got up and left the room. However, in the hind site of my marriage to her, know that would have been disastrous too for she would have stole me blind then as she did later.
These Russian woman are schooled in may ways by the Russian dating agencies on how to be successful in getting an American Husband. After all, how can the agency expect to get the Russian women to join their dating agency if the women have little or no success? While many men are pigs and would screw anything that was presented to them, there are equally as many who are only looking for that "one" and are very content in building history, experiences and a future with them. There are men who, having made love to a woman (giving all that they are to another) also includes giving their heart... and this describes me.
After this, I felt the thing to do was to go forward with her. I took the train with her to her home town where found her mother and her 3 year old son living in a poor area and in a run down high rise apartment, flanked on all sides by other high rise apartments all in a state of disrepair. Entering the building one cold smell rotting garbage and other odors... again I felt sorry for her.
Her mother was old school Russian... I still have photos of the interior of the apartment, it was a two bedroom apartment and Tatiana slept on the sofa with Eugene (3) sleeping in a large crib.
Sorry, I digress. We parted at the Airport with me telling her I would arrange everything in the states... including a wedding. STOP. Think for a moment... why would I PAY over 5000.00 to travel to Russia, arrange all her papers, plan and execute a wedding among my friends, only to divorce her six months later? I read her lie in the article above that I continued to look at other women...This has caused me to re-enlist back into the wost period of my life that I had been happy to forget...and set the story straight in defense of myself against her lies and the deceit she has cast over you who feel sorry for her and have joined her cause.... not to mention the many personal friends she turned against me due to her ability to beguile them against me.
The day she and her son arrived in the States, I took her to the little 70 yr old cottage I lived in on 7 acre apricot orchard. Her attitude immediately changed from that of loving, kind, sweet, submissive and innocent (a "Polly Purebred" if you will) to that of mean tempered, selfish, unreasonable individual... a side I had not seen till then. I suspect she was so used to seeing what America was like on TV and Hollywood that seeing she was not in some mansion or high rise condo, she was ticked off. Did she love her mother, friends and colleagues at the conservatory enough to say "will you move to Russia? No. Did she marry me because she loved me? Or did she marry me because I was the first one to come along and offer her a ticket to the States and citizenship under the marriage umbrella?
The wedding took place in my friends back yard a couple of weeks later. (note) during this time in between we did not have premarital sex) And based on her new (rotten) attitude, I should have called off the wedding...but STUPID ME... it would have been too embarrassing for me. NOTE: Lesson to the youg and dumb from the learned and experienced... a little embarrassment is nothing compared to how complicated and tangled things can get with the wrong person; TRUST ME!
I thank GOD we didn't had kids the half dozen times we did have sex. That was a real bullet He re-directed.
With in a month or two of being married... she demanded a credit card with unlimited funds saying that all the other Russian women get this from their husbands. She was in constant phone contact with other Russian women who were in the States... they networked together sharing tactics for getting what they wanted from their husbands... TRUE as the air you breath!
The Credit card was followed up by withholding sex for getting what she wanted. She would stand in front of the mirror in panties only and ask in her Russian accent... "Do you like my body, do you think I am sexy?" In replying yes and approaching her, she would reply... "dont touch me". Giving her money was what it took for me to "have sex with her beautiful body" (all her words are given in quotes)
The next thing to come was her demanded for me to buy her a car. I told her she had to learn how to drive (most Russians don't own cars and thus, don't know how to drive) I got her a DMV book to learn... but this was not good enough or fast enough for her. I had sitting under a lean to a red 63 T-bird that prior to resting there sat in my mothers back yard for over 13 years. The the alternator was frozen, the battery dead, the front end bushings shot and the brakes gone. I got it started and limped it 5 miles to the lean to very carefully where it sat un registered, un licensed, and definitely not road worthy. I cant tell you how many times I found the keys missing, and the car gone, only to have died a few hundred feet away from the house! Most of the time she was no where to be found,,, only once was she found sitting in the car running down the battery trying to re-start it.
Did she care that she did not know how to drive, that she did not have a license, that the car was not registered, that it was not insured or licensed? Hell no. She does not recognize any authority other than her self serving wants! Do I need to say she could have wrecked it or killed some little kid? There is not enough skin on my butt to pay that price tag short being cast in Prison for life!
Later I found her a job opening with the San Jose Symphony... which she could not keep due to her reluctance to follow the orchestra leaders rules and instructions of NOT wearing perfume as it was disturbing to members (no one could wear it) BUT SHE WANTED TO WEAR HERS! Or showing up with her sheet music NOT in order of rehearsal and the orchestra having to wait while she fumbled though her music to get the next piece. And lastly, never showing up on time... which I had to drive like hell to get her there due to the fact that she would stand in front of the mirror admiring herself to the point of it didn't matter if I had a jet to fly her in...she would be late! The Orchestra leader scolded her by saying "I don't care if you need a limo to drive her here on time... if your late one more time, your chair goes to another!"
Oh... did I mention she seldom if ever wore the $10,000 wedding ring she received at the wedding? The main stone (.88pts and colorless) was taken from a ring that belonged to my father who had died in the early 80's. Giving it to my bride who I felt would always be PART of MY FAMILY! But as I said she seldom if ever wore it and because she WANTED TO BE AMERICANIZED so badly, explains perfectly why she DID NOT take MY LAST NAME.
After a few months into the marriage seeing that she did not marry Howard Hughes son, the mutual flirtations of her and a good friend of mine gave way to me finding a second car of mine (78 Cad Seville) at my "Friends" house at night and during the day(by now she had her drivers license) She would come home drunk after having done what anyone would suspect. She later told me she did not love me. Now, I am a forgiving fellow... had she told me she went to visit, they had a little too much to drink and passions went wild... BUT she showed remorse, asked for forgiveness and professed her love for me, I could forgive. But tell me she loves another... and that's the end for me.
When I told here I was filing for divorce, was when things really got ugly. On Her Russian Network of friends, she was told to agitate a fight in hopes to bring about physical abuse on my part and be able to say to the INS... 'The divorce was no fault of my own but brought about due to an abusive husband' would in her thinking, clear her to stay in the US. I have never been abusive... its just not my nature even after I found her having obtained entrance into my locked office stealing my passport and other personals. I had to wrestle the papers from her amidst her kicking me, hitting me and pulling my hair. (What a double standard we have in the states on abuse... who believes a man should he report an abusive WIFE? )Off to jail I went! She dropped the charges a day later and I was released cause they were trumped and she was messing with a law enforcement agency that could end up biting her in the ass.
When she had moved out...I noticed the wedding ring that I had since taken possession of was missing. Yes, I gave it to her in reciprocal good faith of our wedding vows... only to find out she had none to begin with.... so I took it back. One evening I found it missing. I noticed the double hung wood framed window over the bathroom sink and the curtains over it not right. She had climbed up to a window over 8 feet high and broke in. I called the police and they came to make a report. I took photos of the officer dusting for prints and gave a copy of the photo to a friend who was in touch with her with the instruction that if the ring was not returned, I would then offer her name to the police. With in two days my friend gave me the ring she reluctantly gave up.
Oh and by the way... while all this was going on, this same friend of mine whom I went to Russia with and who also married a Russian lady, had a restraining order placed on him on his own home. He had to move in with his mother for over a year while his Russian Bride took possession of his home after he had bought her a BMW, flew her to Russia at least 6 times for her to visit her family there.. oh, and did I mention they got into an argument over using the phone where she went into the bedroom and self inflicted a bruise to her forehead claiming to the police "He hit me"? Off to jail he went! He was a Real Estate Broker who worked out of his home and needed to use the phone constantly. She was a Russian Immigrant who's only friends were the other Russian women in the States who were trying to dupe the system. Did I mention in all, it cost him over 60 thousand dollars before he was rid of his sweet innocent Russian Bride?
Of the 80 men who went to Russia to find wives, one man was a reporter for the Philadelphia Times. He ended up doing a story a year later to find out what had transpired in the lives of these 80 men... did they meet someone in Russia, if so did it lead to marriage. If they got married did it end happily or in divorce? It was all told in percentages. Let me sum up the story by telling you briefly Jerry (the reporters) story. His Russian Bride actually placed a hit on him... yes that's right! Paid someone to have him killed so she could collect his large life insurance policy.
As GOD IS MY WITNESS and as a DEVOUT LDS CHRISTIAN, and if needed, would testify before an HONEST body of Congress or Senate, these statements are TRUE.
The six months I spent with Tatiana was the worst time in my life. Never before nor since have I seen a jail let alone hand cuffs (except for a short stint working as a Prison guard)
This woman managed to turn long standing friends against me in a community I and my family had long standing ties to...not to mention my family owning and operating several business there.(Fremont Ca)
Do not be subject to this woman's lies, deceit and deception. She is calculating, deceptive, very cunning and does it all behind a face that exudes innocence while playing her violin to the sympathies of others and the tune of "poor me... I have bad luck with such horrible, abusive men and marriage" Oh.... shes good!
Of course time has a way of substantiating the truth. When it was only me and a single divorce she experienced with an American man... many would say (and many were my friends) Its HIS fault... he was terrible to her... having listened only to her. But now... there are two additional failed marriages she has credited to her name.... The other "friend" (Edgardo)who was having sex with her... ended up marrying her and having the two girls with her. Trust me... the two kids were only to serve her self interests to remain in the States! That marriage ended when Edgardo found her having an affair with another "older man". I don't know anything about this third man other than that marriage ended as well.
So.. you tell me? What kind of a woman is this? It sickens me to have viewed so many tv news videos of people holding a candlelight vigil to "save Tatiana from Deportation" and "Immigration is confused on criminals and illegal aliens... shes a good person" to "Our Govt is screwed up making this poor woman go back to Russia while leaving her two naturalized born daughters to stay behind'
This lady is anything but the sweet, Polly Purebred she portrays herself. Yes, it is not only a shame what her innocent kids are having to go though, but a CRIME. And it has come about due to the self serving interests of a selfish woman who cares only about getting what she wants...even at the expense of her kids... Ah, but that is where she hopes to tug on your heart strings... so the rules wont apply to her. ...."Please don't separate my family... What did I do wrong; we are good people...my children go to bed each night in tears thinking we will be split up" Are you not tired of the Violin yet? Please wake up and see this individual for the duplicitous, cunning, deceiving, self serving individual that she is.
Yes, its unfortunate that this country IS made up of people like her, playing on a system that has a way too lenient immigration policy that is now leading towards AMENISTY for ALL at the taxpayers expense of free medicare, social security and the like where it cant even take care of its own who have paid into the system all our lives due to corruption and greed for money and power(another topic hot button) How much of your money has she used trying to subvert the system with her lies?
It is also unfortunate that others have to pay the price for her reckless behavior, and her lack of morals and values... in this case her very own kids, and those of you who have fallen prey to her lies.
Because I can no longer sit back and allow this woman to spread lies about me, herself and fool the public with all the media attention she has been able to stir up, I have come forward, If you are a journalist or reporter, I am happy to do an interview to set the record straight allowing you to know "the rest of the story"
In the mean time SEND HER BACK TO RUSSIA, before she ruins innocent lives by bringing in more kids into the unfavorable cruel world she has created for them.
Incidentally when we were married, I called her mother and wrote her letters that she had to have translated to understand letting her know the actions of her daughter. Oh man did this make Tatiana angry that she would not speak to me as she often would do for days...and it caused her mother to be very upset and angry at Tatiana who did her quick dance of lying to her mother to save her face and relationship.
If there is truly a victim here it is NOT TATIANA, it is ME, it is you and it is you the public. I went though hell and back with this woman. I lost my reputation amongst my friends, I suffered humility, PHYSICAL ABUSE, anguish and emotional pain. I went to jail because of her lies and I spent thousands of dollars to bring here here and make a home with her. Does a person go to such great lengths to find a wife only to file for divorce? Incidentally, I am in no means un attractive, having successfully modeled in print as well as been in several A rated films and TV (Bicentennial Man, High Crimes, Nash Bridges to name a few. My father was also a successful (attractive) figure in the industry with many credits to his name... of which I bear an uncanny resemblance to him.
As for me, I am as of this writing 49 yrs old (12 yrs older than the subject of this article) I have a 20 yr old son serving a 2 year mission for the LDS Church and a 21 yr old daughter who is in the Bay Area and married for two years now. I am happily remarried and in the process of opening a brick and mortar business.
For comments, questions or interviews, I can be reach me at [email protected]
Sincerely,
Bill (not real name but for privacy)
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Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
As Erin Intimated...
...I think, the student at Kennesaw State doesn't have anything at all to do with whether the laws are fair to the Marine widow. All its inclusion is doing here is gratuitously demonizing somebody who's not as American as the rest of us.
Having the temerity to pay in-state school rates in Georgia because she pays her taxes there. Imagine! Next thing you know she'll be burning the flag. And check the column again: it doesn't say that she lied to police by giving them a wrong address; it says she "failed to put her correct address on the form", allowing these xenophobes to trump up a felony charge against her. They don't have to worry about actually convicting her since the mere charge triggers a deportation investigation, so they can pretty much do whatever they please -- but SHE's the one who's "thumbing her nose at the legal system."
Deport her or don't -- but don't pretend that what you do about her is relevant to Marine widows, or that it "proves" that "right-thinking Americans" need to tell all those lollygagging politicians to get on the mandatory ID bandwagon.
Sorry. Go ahead and delete this post (or better, chop off everything after the first paragraph) if you think it crosses a political line, but I believe that quoting the original column crossed it already.
Eric
Edit: Hadn't seen Erin's second post with the cartoon and blog comment when I wrote this. "Intimated" in my title referred to her first post, with the dog-cat analogy.
Direct your outrage where it belongs
And that isn't the publisher who wrote the column but the immigration system that treats innocent people like criminals. I have personal experience with how Immigration and the State Department treats those who want to immigrate legally to this country. One example- My wife of 21 years was born in the Philippines and I had to petition for her to be allowed to live here.
I know the Hotaru Ferschke story as well as anyone who has never met the mother in person. To show, I'll link here, here, here, here, here, here, all blog articles written by me. Now everyone at BC knows what my real first is. The first of those articles is dated October 15, 2008. A documentary was made telling Hotaru's story. The producers at one time tried contacting me to discuss possibly my appearing in the film.
Anything you thinks I'm a nativist or xenophobe needs their head examined. I've railed against the likes of anti-any immigrant Mark Krikorian, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and their poor or criminal treatment of immigrants in their custody and much more. I used to write at a big conservative blog and my deviance from 'kick them all out of the country' stand regularly got me called names by commenters. Ever had your wife referred to as an Asian Sex Slave? I have. If someone would like see some of this, privately message me. My full name is on the posts at that blog.(Which I don't write at any more)
Back to Hota. The obstacles thrown in this poor woman's path began almost immediately. Let me quote Stars and Stripes.
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Her Okinawan daughter-in-law, six months pregnant with the couple’s child, tearfully called earlier this week and said she was having problems getting a residency visa to live in the United States.
“She was crying so hard, it was hard to understand what she was saying,†Robin said in a telephone interview Thursday from her home in Maryville, Tenn. “She said she was told she could not get a visa because of something called the two-year rule.â€
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The so called two-year rule, also known as 'The Widow Penalty', does not apply to spouses of United States Military killed in combat. What kind of incompetents does the US consulate in Okinawa Japan hire to work there? An island with multiple United States military installations should have this law drilled into their heads the day they begin working.
The consulate back pedalled from that but that's one of the few victories Hota has won. Read the countless articles I link to in my posts or read my posts. Then answer this question Why is Hota Ferschke not allowed to legally live in the United States and raise her son here when a Jessica Colotl or fill in the blank with any other person who isn't supposed to be in this country, is doing just that and this shouldn't be called an outrage and a miscarriage? The agency that is treating these two people have it the wrong way around
Daniel, author of maid, whore, bimbo, and sissy free TG fiction since 2000
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.- Oscar Levant
Outrage
You say direct your outrage where it belongs. Yes, do so. The treatment of legitimate and legal immigrants and the non-white children of US military men is a disgrace in this country and has been so since we first fought a foreign war.
But bringing in some one else's story is not directing the outrage where it belongs, that was my point. It distracts from your position and provides ammunition for other outrages in the name of some sort of -ism that is actually the fuel behind the outrage you want to protest.
To be clearer -- one reason Hota Ferschke is being denied the right to legally live in the US is because people are being inflamed against other cases that are completely different but share one thing -- someone in the story is non-white, non-native-born. Don't distract from reporting on a tragedy to complain about a completely different play on another stage. Putting the two cases together does not make them distinct, it makes them more the same.
Mrs. Ferschke is being discriminated against because she is non-white, non-native-born. Pointing at some other non-white or non-native-born as getting an unfair advantage is not going to help her. You can't win justice for one by feeding crumbs to the hatebirds who want to shit on someone else.
What has worked in the past in such cases as Mrs. Ferschke's is pressure brought on Congress, one member at a time. Private bills can be enacted to resolve immigration disputes. This is actually the wrong way to solve the problem in the long term but it can relieve individual suffering.
But remember in my parable of the dog and the cat that the drunk driver keeps getting re-elected.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Jessica Colotl
Erin wrote: But bringing in some one else's story is not directing the outrage where it belongs, that was my point. It distracts from your position and provides ammunition for other outrages in the name of some sort of -ism that is actually the fuel behind the outrage you want to protest.
Indeed. The author of this column offers no proof of his alleged "facts," and makes a lot of wild assertions that are factually untrue. Jessica came to this country as an eleven-year-old girl, so she's hardly the "criminal" she's painted as in this hateful article. After intervention by her sorority sisters and the officials of her college, the Feds agreed that she was a model student who would be a credit to her community and the country as a whole and stayed her hearing until after graduation.
The local Sheriff -- I believe he may be distantly related to Sheriff Buford T. Justice -- not content with mere humanity, launched his own little pogrom to try to "get her" like Smokey got the Bandit.
The case has the stink of racial profiling about it, as she was targeted by the original arresting officer for "impeding traffic" by driving too slowly with a cop on her tail.
As it happens, I know how this trick works, because it was once played on me, a cop who doesn't like your looks, or a bumper sticker on your car, pulls up rapidly behind you and tailgates you. Sooner or later this dangerous and aggressive manoeuvre makes you so nervous that you do something wrong and he turns on the lights and writes a ticket for whatever comes to mind.
They especially like to target women, because women are the ideal victims, unlikely to shoot or stab their persecutors.
The columnist's bias is clear in the title of the piece, since he wants to "take back America" by persecuting despised minorities, just like in the Good Old Days when the Good Old Boys could "teach *those* people their place" by murdering a few whilst dressed in those becoming white sheets and hoods.
Last I see on the case, she's again been granted a reprieve by the INS, and has been released pending graduation, when another hearing will be held.
The college in question, and the Sheriff, are in Georgia.
Puddin'
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Cheers,
Puddin'
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