Nbadan
03-11-2006, 07:14 AM
Mom deported after 18 years
U.S. gets tougher on immigration violations
BY DAN HORN | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Fatima Raziuddin called her husband and children from an airport Tuesday night to say goodbye.
After 18 years in the United States, she was being deported to Pakistan for violating a student visa in 1989 by working at a fast-food restaurant. She had lived quietly, but illegally, in West Chester Township for the past decade.
Raziuddin sobbed as she talked to her husband about all she was leaving: Her two teenage sons, friends and neighbors, the doctors who treated her cancer and the children she taught at the local mosque.
Her life in America was over....
News Enquirer (http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060311/NEWS01/603110432)
U.S. gets tougher on immigration violations
BY DAN HORN | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Fatima Raziuddin called her husband and children from an airport Tuesday night to say goodbye.
After 18 years in the United States, she was being deported to Pakistan for violating a student visa in 1989 by working at a fast-food restaurant. She had lived quietly, but illegally, in West Chester Township for the past decade.
Raziuddin sobbed as she talked to her husband about all she was leaving: Her two teenage sons, friends and neighbors, the doctors who treated her cancer and the children she taught at the local mosque.
Her life in America was over....
News Enquirer (http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060311/NEWS01/603110432)