Sensenbrenner the pedant

[dragonlady]

From an e-mail I received:

"A bill that would allow a young Japanese widow to move to Tennessee with her toddler son has stalled again in the U.S. House and appears dead for the year. . . .

Hota Ferschke married . . . Marine Sgt. Michael Ferschke, about a month before he was killed in Iraq on Aug. 10, 2008. The wedding took place by proxy: Sgt. Ferschke was in Iraq, his bride in Japan. The couple never saw each other again.

Hota Ferschke was pregnant at the time they wed, and she and Sgt. Ferschke had agreed to raise their son in Tennessee. But she can't move to the United States because their marriage is not recognized under a Cold War-era immigration law. . . .

Last Friday, the U.S. Senate passed a narrowly crafted measure - known as a private bill - that would grant permanent residency to Hota Ferschke."

(The husband's mother has been trying all this time to get her daughter-in-law and grandson to Tennessee. But FJS, despite supporting the bill on its merits, insists it must go through the proper procedures in the Judiciary committee instead of taking it directly to the floor as the mother-in-law's congressman wanted. What a heartless wretch.)

:banghead:

[midnight]

1. I posted this elsewhere last week.. Glad to hear this was

finally cleared up for this grandmother to be united with her son's wife and her new grandchild. Thank you for posting this...