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INS TO BOOT MOTHER-IN-LAW OF
9-11 VICTIM OUT OF U. S.

Not only does the INS want to stop Israeli scientist Dr. Elitzur from coming to the United States, they want to kick 79-year-old Jolanda Sannino out!

What crime has Mrs. Sannino committed? She was specially airlifted to the United States from Italy on September 15th to comfort her daughter, Marinella Hemenway whose husband Ronald was killed at his desk at the Pentagon when American Flight 77 slammed into the building. Petty Officer Ronald Hemenway was survived by his wife and two children, Stefan and Deseree. Mrs. Sannino is of course the grandmother to these children. Her daughter Marinella was born in Italy as well, where she met and married Ronald Hemenway.

Mrs. Sannino will be kicked out of the U. S. within 24 hours of a special ceremony to be held at Arlington National Cemetery in honor of her son-in-law and the other 183 victims of the Pentagon attack. Her daughter has been outspoken about her treatment: "The INS said it doesn't matter that she's 79; the law is the same for everyone. Except for terrorists .... they weren't quite so strict on visas for the terrorists who hijacked Flight 77 and killed my husband and all those other people at the Pentagon."

If her mother would convert to Islam, the INS might have second thoughts. The INS is a perpetually political correct organization that spends most of its time capturing and returning Europeans who overstay business visas while turning their backs to those in the United States unlawfully. Indeed civil bondsmen who bring illegal aliens to INS offices in major cities are often turned away and told just to let the illegals go.

Local and state police do not arrest illegal aliens even when they know they are in the United States illegally. When Florida offered to begin arresting illegal aliens, the ACLU and other civil liberties organizations said they would file lawsuits to stop them. The ACLU is not going to help Mrs. Sannino because she is a law-abiding person who will voluntarily leave the United States this month when her visa expires.