Deportation Reprieve for Senator's Wife

By DANIEL YEE
Associated Press Writer
AP Photo/RIC FELD

ATLANTA (AP) -- The Colombia-born wife of a Georgia state senator emerged from hiding and turned herself in Tuesday to face a deportation order, but an immigration judge lifted the order and she was expected to be freed.

Sascha Herrera, 28, who had gone into hiding after the order was issued, arrived at the Martin Luther King Federal Building shortly before 8 a.m. and met with the judge and attorneys for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office.

The deportation order stemmed from Herrera's repeated failure to appear before a judge on an asylum application, which Kuck said she did not know had been filed.

Kuck claims she was duped by a man handling her immigration requests and that she never received the immigration notices.