A federal judge ruled in favor of the defendant and has stopped deportation proceedings against a Danbury family.Congratulations to the Pereira family! This post is bump to the top in your honor!
The judge said that deporting Tereza Pereira and Carlos Lima would result in an exceptional hardship on their two American-born sons, one of which is an honor student at Danbury High School.
"Thank God it's over, now we can return to peace," Pereira said immediately after the decision.
About a dozen supporters of Pereira and Lima were in the court room. The room erupted in cheers when the judge ruled in favor of the defendant.
UPDATE: The News-Times Eugene Driscoll did a complete write-up on the case, which can be viewed by clicking here.
This week's edition of the Tribuna includes a follow-up on the case of Tereza Pereira. For those who are not familiar with the story, I strongly encourage you to read Emanuela Lima's piece.
UPDATE: I forgot to recommend that you should read about the Pereira case in the Connecticut Law Tribune, which is noted in the Tribuna's piece.
As a compliment to the portion of the article that describes Pereira speaking about her ordeal with ICE agents at an immigration forum last year, from the HatCityBLOG archives, here's the actual video footage of Pereira's speech.
Posted Originally on Feb. 27 2007.
You read what happened, now you can watch Tereza Pereira describe her ordeal with ICE agents to the audience at Sunday's Stop the Raids forum.Hi-res format PLEASE SAVE FILE ON HARDDRIVE BEFORE VIEWING: (41.5.meg quicktime).
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of day laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
