This might not work out the way they think
Most brides spend months agonizing over floral arrangements, wedding cakes and seating plans.
But one California woman just spent her big day passing through locked doors to say “I do” in a Bakersfield immigration detention facility.
Christina Serrano married her fiance Juan Serrano inside the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Facility, where he has been detained for the past seven months.
The groom, an alleged illegal immigrant from Guatemala, has been held there since a routine immigration check-in — a moment his wife said upended their lives overnight.
Um, here’s the question: is Christina an illegal or a citizen? Even if she’s a citizen the immigration court could easily determine that it’s an attempt to keep him from being deported, even with the child, especially if he illegally entered and/or has a criminal history.
By tying the knot, Serrano hopes to file immigration paperwork that could help her husband remain in the United States or at least delay his removal. Whether it will work remains uncertain.
It’s all so tedious and idiotic.
Judging by her photo, perhaps an illegal is the only husband she could land?
There was an episode of Blue Bloods in which a rather unpleasingly plump woman wanted to marry a ‘migrant’ from some Middle Eastern country, and needed to do so quickly, to keep her very good looking fiancé from being shipped back home. It turned out that the reason he needed to avoid deportation as his visa was expiring was that he was homosexual, and faced death if returned. The ‘happy ending’ was that the got married, so he wasn’t shipped back to Iran(?), but to me it emphasized that the marriage was fraudulent.