Happy reunion: What if couple were Mexican?

http://www.suntimes.com/news/brown/6970607-452/happy-reunion-what-if-couple-were-mexican.html

MARK BROWN markbrown@suntimes.com
August 9, 2011 10:48PM

<snip>Perhaps you saw the story this week of the immigrant family that was reunited at O’Hare Airport after living apart four years because our government deported her for being here without authorization, in other words, one of those “illegal immigrants.”

It was a touching story and generally treated as such by the news media, and I was gratified to see the happy ending to a case that had brought great hardship to the couple and their now 10-year-old son, an American citizen by birth who ended up leaving the country, too, to stay with his mom. SNIP

In the end, through the persistence of the husband, the dogged work of the couple’s lawyer, support from two Illinois congressmen and the added bonus of an award-winning documentary film about their predicament, the wife was granted a hardship waiver and allowed to return to the U.S.

What intrigued me, however, wasn’t the couple’s story as much as the reaction to it.

Together 19 years, married in Mass. 7 years ago, primary care giver to partner with AIDS. What are their chances?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/09/BAO71KKPEC.DTL

Wonderful interview. Catch it if you can.