i don't care how one (generally) feels about immigration

THIS is just NOT right.

this woman should get immediate citizenship, period

and if you don't think that - well then i don't think YOU are patriotic
oh and while we're at it, please keep a good thought out and say an extra prayer for her husband. miracles DO happen. i know that for a fact

DHS trying to deport missing soldier's wife

Nick Juliano

Her husband volunteered to defend this country, and he has been missing in the deserts of Iraq for more than a month. Now the US government is trying to kick her out of the country.
Army specialist Alex Jimenez married Yaderlin Hiraldo in 2004. Hiraldo entered the US illegally from the Dominican Republic in 2001, and when Jimenez petitioned for her green card while he was stationed in Iraq it alerted the government to her presence, according to a report on Boston television station WBZ.
Jimenez went missing May 12 in Iraq when he and two other soldiers were captured by al-Qaeda following an ambush. An immigration judge stopped Hiraldo's green card processing when her husband went missing, and the government has so far refused to grant a so-called hardship waiver that would allow her to stay in the country, WBZ reported.............