Stupid Immigration Laws

Welcome to the U.S. - You are free to die for us but your family must move!

JACKSONVILLE, Florida (CNN) -- Eduardo Gonzalez, a petty officer second class with the U.S. Navy, is about to be deployed overseas for a third time. Making his deployment even tougher is the fact his wife may not be around when he comes back.”

We should be ashamed of ourselves when situations like this are allowed to happen!
Apparently, for the U.S. government is OK for an illegal to join the armed forces (That’s how Gonzalez entered the country), and even become a citizen like him (He became a citizen in 2005), go to Iraq and risk his life not once but three times (He’s about to be shipped again), but his wife (due to a technicality) could be subject to deportation.

Gonzalez’ wife was brought here as a child under the Guatemalan Refugee program and, while her mother is now a legal resident, Gonzalez’ wife, simply because she married him became ineligible for a visa under the original petition.

An insult to anyone who is serving in the military and an aberration of our immigration laws. Even if this was not the case of someone enlisted, to deny and deport the wife (or husband) of a citizen is akin to totalitarian. While the spouses of citizens may have few rights, at least for a couple of years, where are the rights of a citizen - man or a woman - to marry and live with anyone they want to, regardless of nationality? Is it just and outdated law? Is it racism? Is it stupidity? Aren’t we supposed to have the freedom to choose our mates? Or because some twisted law so dictates we must move out of our own country with our spouses when they are not in the immigration quotas?

Not only this is unfair to someone like Gonzalez, who may or may not come back alive from Iraq, but to anyone who decides to marry and live happily ever after in his or her own soil, the United States.

What an example of freedom we are giving to the World!