Ok, this kinda pisses me off. If she were just some average schmuck who wasn’t married to a politician she’d be outta here. This isn’t fair to the immigrants who aren’t married to State Senators, and who would be deported.

ATLANTA (WXIA) — The Colombia-born wife of a Georgia state senator surrendered to authorities in Atlanta Tuesday morning after finding out she will not be deported to her native country after all. Speaking in Spanish, Sascha Herrera, who is married to Sen. Curt Thompson of Norcross, denied reports that she went into hiding after immigration officials appeared at her home with a deportation order.

“That hurts me a lot,” she said. “Reading on the Internet, they said I was hiding out, so as not to go to jail. But at no time was I trying to hide out. I was just trying to buy some time to see what was happening and the best way to deal with it.”

Herrera said she surrendered Tuesday morning prepared to go to jail, realizing she could end up there for weeks while her lawyer straightened out her residency status. It was a tough decision, she said, “because I didn’t do anything to deserve jail.”

Herrera turned herself in about 8 a.m. at the immigration office across the street from the federal courthouse in downtown Atlanta. She then met with an immigration judge and attorneys for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office and got the deportation order against her lifted.

Herrera’s husband, as well as her attorney, were with her when she appeared before the judge to seek permanent residency in the U.S.

Herrera blamed the confusion on a notario who she said defrauded her after claiming he could help her gain permanent residency. The deportation order stemmed from Herrera’s repeated failure to appear before a judge on an asylum application, which she said she did not know had been filed. She had been out of sight since Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrived at her home Nov. 28 with an order to remove her from the U.S. She was not home at the time.

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