Wis. Rep. Sensenbrenner blocks fast track to unite killed soldier's Japanese

[midnight]

wife and son with his family here in America.

A Maryville woman who is trying to bring her widowed Japanese daughter-in-law and infant grandson permanently to East Tennessee said Thursday that she feels like her family is caught in the middle of a political game in Congress.

'It's insane,' said Robin Ferschke, whose Marine son was killed in Iraq shortly after he married the young Japanese woman. 'They just don't care how much pain they are putting us through, what they are doing to this family. They are tearing us apart.'

Ferschke's two-year battle to move her daughter-in-law, Hotaru 'Hota' Ferschke, and 22-month-old grandson, Mikey, to the United States suffered another setback this week when a bill that would give the young woman permanent residency status stalled in the U.S. House.

U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., and a key member of the House Judiciary Committee, is stopping efforts to fast-track the bill and move it directly to the House floor for a vote. Sensenbrenner's objections appear to doom the bill's chances of passing this year.





http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/dec/09/ferschke-bill-halted-again/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Republicans are just plain mean. Sometimes I think they do stuff just to be assholes.

[Mass]

2. Totally inept. What difference does it make if the marriage has been consummated BEFORE or AFTER the

ceremony? Can we live in the twenty first century?

[wtmusic]

3. I wonder what proof of consummation is acceptable...

timestamped video? Stains on sheets? Witness testimony? :crazy:

[Mass]

4. That is an interesting question too.

[dragonlady]

5. If you've ever seen Sensenbrenner at a town hall meeting

you know that this is perfectly in character for him. He's rude and condescending to constituents and loves to lecture on every topic under the sun to show how much he knows. In this case it's more important to him to make this bill go through all the channels in his committee than to give these people some peace, even though he agrees it should pass! Being reelected from a supremely safe district for over 30 years is a big part of it.

:hi:

[madrchsod]

6. wisconsin`s finest!

the dumb fucks who vote him get what they deserve and for these who are sane...i know who you feel. the illinois 14th is also a republican hell.

[RandySF]

7. I'm calling it out for what this is really about

First Sessions, now Sensenbrenner. They don't want a non-white woman and a bi-racial child entering the US when they can prevent it. I promise you that if she came from a predominately white, Christian European nation, there would be no trouble getting in.

[midnight]

8. It is so scary that people see other people as being lesser if they are not

predominately white, Christian, blah blah blah....

[burning rain]

9. It would be Sensenbrenner. He's long been a super-anti-immigration guy.

:eyeroll: