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| With millions in 9/11 payments, bereaved (illegal alien widows) canÂ’t buy green cards |
| 2006-09-06 |
| A heartbreaking story. If you're a New York Times reporter, that is. One widow has more than $2 million but walks or rides the bus everywhere, terrified of drawing attention. Another millionaire widow stopped going to 9/11 support groups because she feared that families of police officers and firefighters might betray her. A widower has enough money to start a business building houses, but cannot buy himself a home. All three lost a husband or a wife when the World Trade Center collapsed. Like thousands of others, they were beneficiaries of the federal Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund, which awarded millions of dollars to families whose loved ones died in the attacks. |
| Posted by:Zhang Fei |
| #9 #7 Besoeker: "No Sympathy Avenue?" Check your map - it's right between Sweat Street and Syphalis Circle. :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-09-06 22:52 |
| #8 #6 - I'm a charter member. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-09-06 22:49 |
| #7 #6 Thanks Barb. Welcome to heartlessbastardland. Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-09-06 16:16 No Sympathy Avenue? First left then a right at the stop sign, you've arrived. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-09-06 16:51 |
| #6 Thanks Barb. Welcome to heartlessbastardland. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-09-06 16:16 |
| #5 OK, mcsegeek1, you're heartless. ;-p (Not really - illegals should have NEVER seen a dime. After all, if they had followed the LAW, as did the legal foreigners, they wouldn't have been there to die.) As for the rich widow, why not take her money, bank it, go back home, live frugally, and apply to come here the right way? Then she'd be rich and legal. Obviously she'd rather whine. Must be a Democrat. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-09-06 14:32 |
| #4 "the officials who drafted the fundÂ’s rules explicitly stated that foreigners and illegal immigrants would be eligible" Call me heartless, but therein lies the problem. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-09-06 14:05 |
| #3 Might as well give here a green card. She can afford to live here and pay taxes. Our imigration policies are all broken and based on contribution $$$ and she can certainly do that. Otherwise the legal sharks will take it all. Oh wait, she's brown and we don't take brown people into this country, no matter how much money she has. She need to change her name to goldstien or Johnson, that would help. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-09-06 13:40 |
| #2 they do not have Social Security numbers Waitaminute! The Feds didn't withhold for Federal Income Tax? Missed a helluva opportunity, there. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2006-09-06 10:44 |
| #1 But their lawyers still worried: That their clients would become marks for hustlers. Mr. Bass, please meet Mr. Trout. Mr. Trout, meet Mr. Bass. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-09-06 07:34 |