It's called 'the widow penalty' when the widow of a soldier not in the war zone or widow of a contractor killed in Iraq faces deportation because their husbands died before their immigration paperwork was finished.
Bill Jempty has been stalwart in supporting those widows with a series of posts on Wizbang, focusing on their plight which is due to a quirk in the immigration law. He died defending our country and now we're going to deport his widow.
That a woman here legally, married a soldier or a contractor who died in Iraq, faces deportation because they were married for less then 2 years seems the height of ingratitude.
There are only a couple hundred of women, some with young children, facing the added grief of the widow penalty. It seems to me that we should do right by them before we debate immigration policy for ten million who have chosen not to take the legal path.
An organization has been set up to demand an end to the widow penalty, Surviving Spouses Against Deportation