A Grandmother’s Fight To Stay!
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Norma Borgono is a brave woman who embarked on a journey with her two small children to live the American Dream! She legally migrated to the US in the early 90s from Peru and worked hard all her life to provide for her children. In 2007, Norma gained her US citizenship and to this day it is one of the proudest accomplishments of her life. Now at the age of sixty-four, suffering from a rare kidney disorder that requires a kidney transplant to survive, she is facing not only denaturalization, but also deportation to a country she hasn't called home for almost thirty years. She received the news just a week after her first and only granddaughter had been born.
The government claims that Norma lied on her citizenship application about her assistance to a crime she was not even aware was being committed. This was brought up due to an unprecedented push by the Trump administration to revoke citizenship from people who committed criminal offenses before they became citizens.
Even though Norma had fully cooperated with the government, despite the government’s knowledge that Norma had never taken any money and did not know the full scope of her boss’ actions, they proceeded to press charges against her for the crimes her boss committed knowing that she was not only a sickly woman, but knowing full well she could not afford to fight them in Court in Washington DC, a place far away from her home in Miami, Florida. She simply became one more conviction to add to their tally. Norma had no choice but to take a plea in 2011.
Norma put all her trust on our judicial system, in its transparency, and in it’s fairness. She followed and completed everything she was told to in order to pay her debt to society. She took responsibility for her actions (or rather inactions). She paid her dues.
Now over a decade later, the government claims that Norma lied in her citizenship application about her assistance to a crime she was not even aware was being committed.
In Norma’s case, denaturalization would be followed by detention, and eventual deportation, which would deny her access to a new kidney and be equivalent to a death sentence.
She put her trust in her boss, in federal agents, in federal prosecutors, and in our judicial system. In every instance they have failed and betrayed the trust she put in each of them.
Our laws were not intended to allow for such injustices! Naturalization was always intended to be final! Her case may be the first of its kind, but unless the current administration’s limitless denaturalization efforts are stopped, it certainly won’t be the last. This time Norma is not only fighting for her freedom and her right to remain in the country with her family, she is fighting for her life!
Norma has long and expensive legal fight ahead of her. Please help us fund Norma’s legal fight for her life! Please don’t let her suffering be in vain. This case can and will set important precedent that could affect many in the future!
Any little bit counts! Any little bit will go a long way! Thank you for being a part of change!
For more information on this:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article214173489.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/us/denaturalize-citizen-immigration.html
The government claims that Norma lied on her citizenship application about her assistance to a crime she was not even aware was being committed. This was brought up due to an unprecedented push by the Trump administration to revoke citizenship from people who committed criminal offenses before they became citizens.
Even though Norma had fully cooperated with the government, despite the government’s knowledge that Norma had never taken any money and did not know the full scope of her boss’ actions, they proceeded to press charges against her for the crimes her boss committed knowing that she was not only a sickly woman, but knowing full well she could not afford to fight them in Court in Washington DC, a place far away from her home in Miami, Florida. She simply became one more conviction to add to their tally. Norma had no choice but to take a plea in 2011.
Norma put all her trust on our judicial system, in its transparency, and in it’s fairness. She followed and completed everything she was told to in order to pay her debt to society. She took responsibility for her actions (or rather inactions). She paid her dues.
Now over a decade later, the government claims that Norma lied in her citizenship application about her assistance to a crime she was not even aware was being committed.
In Norma’s case, denaturalization would be followed by detention, and eventual deportation, which would deny her access to a new kidney and be equivalent to a death sentence.
She put her trust in her boss, in federal agents, in federal prosecutors, and in our judicial system. In every instance they have failed and betrayed the trust she put in each of them.
Our laws were not intended to allow for such injustices! Naturalization was always intended to be final! Her case may be the first of its kind, but unless the current administration’s limitless denaturalization efforts are stopped, it certainly won’t be the last. This time Norma is not only fighting for her freedom and her right to remain in the country with her family, she is fighting for her life!
Norma has long and expensive legal fight ahead of her. Please help us fund Norma’s legal fight for her life! Please don’t let her suffering be in vain. This case can and will set important precedent that could affect many in the future!
Any little bit counts! Any little bit will go a long way! Thank you for being a part of change!
For more information on this:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article214173489.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/us/denaturalize-citizen-immigration.html
Fundraising team (5)
Terry Frost
Organizer
Miami, FL
Norma Borgono
Beneficiary
Urpi Rios Borgoño
Team member
Julia Bales
Team member
Alina Valle
Team member
