Save Vets’ spouses

This is similar to one of the issues that IAVA hit hard early on and was mostly fixed by  some rule and regulation twiddling.  It would seem that the same could be done now.  I don’t even think the problem is so wide as to require a revision of the whole immigration code – just grant an amnesty to those few spouses it applies to.  A little policy change and quick admin action should be able to save these people while safeguarding against fraud.  These Vets have paid this price.  They should not have to pay for a parent’s long ago transgressions:

Struggling Iraq vet may lose his anchor

His wife, brought here illegally at age 6, is about to be deported. ‘She’s my everything,’ her husband says.
By Teresa Watanabe  October 26 2009

The nightmares still plague him. The terrifying mortar attacks. The loss of an Albanian soldier and ally, mutilated by shrapnel. The Iraqi children, bloodied and battered, lined up for medical care at the U.S. base at Mosul.

The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-immig-soldier26-2009oct26,0,144983.story