NewsWhore
06-08-2009, 03:50 PM
The US Consul General in the DR says that sociologist Lourdes Contreras, director of the Gender Studies Center at Santo Domingo's INTEC University, was deported when in transit in Miami on 13 May on the way to a conference in Jamaica because her husband Narciso Isa Conde "has links with terrorism." El Dia reported that Narciso Isa Conde's links to the FARC in Colombia are the main reason the US State Department revoked his wife's visa and deported her to Santo Domingo.
Contreras told Hoy newspaper that US General Consul Michael Schimmel told her that the State Department's decision was based on the US Anti-Terrorist Law. The law establishes that spouses and children of people considered inadmissible because of terrorist activities may also be excluded from the US. One of the couple's sons is economist Pavel Isa, who heads the local representation of the United Nations World Food Program.
"I understand that with that statement, the consul general of the US is saying a whole family is condemned," she told Hoy. She said that Schimmel handed her the reasons for her deportation in writing, in response to a diplomatic note to the US authorities from the Ministry of Foreign Relations.
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Contreras told Hoy newspaper that US General Consul Michael Schimmel told her that the State Department's decision was based on the US Anti-Terrorist Law. The law establishes that spouses and children of people considered inadmissible because of terrorist activities may also be excluded from the US. One of the couple's sons is economist Pavel Isa, who heads the local representation of the United Nations World Food Program.
"I understand that with that statement, the consul general of the US is saying a whole family is condemned," she told Hoy. She said that Schimmel handed her the reasons for her deportation in writing, in response to a diplomatic note to the US authorities from the Ministry of Foreign Relations.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)