When a Des Moines Iowa Wendy’s manager married one of the workers, it was the beginning of a six year battle to create a family separated by bureaucratic nitpicking, stupidity and what one lawyer calls plain meanness.
Linda and Aaron Ramirez, and their three children are finally back together, living and working in Des Moines. Mike Kilen, who covers the amazing story of two Wendy’s workers beating the odds and overcoming bureaucratic obstacles in the Des Moines Register nicely summed the whole problem with international marriages like this:
Love may not require papers; the government does.
Des Moines Register photo by Christopher Gannon.
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Amy G // March, 26, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Wow, that quote says it perfectly. I wish that my husband could simply be the incredible, intelligent, talented man that I love. But to the government, he is an unwanted illegal immigrant. Sad.
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