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Authorities to mother of five: You’re being deported Monday
Ill woman could take her daughters to Armenia — or face separation
Leila Navidi
Anoush Sarkisian, 50, who faces deportation next week, rests Thursday at St. Rose Dominican Hospital’s San Martin Campus after being admitted with heart problems.
Published Friday, July 3, 2009 | 2 a.m.
Updated Monday, July 6, 2009 | 5:37 p.m.
The Sarkisian sisters eat standing in the kitchen of their home in February. Normally, their mother would prepare dinner, but Anoush Sarkisian was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Feb. 3. Facing deportation to Armenia next week, she has been hospitalized with heart trouble. From left in photo: Elizabeth, 16; Michelle, 17; Patricia, 14; Miriam, 21; and Emma, 22.
Anoush Sarkisian holds daughter Emma, now 22. Emma and Miriam, 21, the oldest of Anoush Sarkisian's five children, gained national attention in 2005 when they were nearly deported. Their father, a U.S. citizen, has petitioned for their citizenship.
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UPDATE: Immigration authorities granted Anoush Sarkisian what's known as "deferred action" on Monday, July 6, a postponement of her deportation for at least 90 days, according to her attorney, Arsen V. Baziyants. That means Baziyants and probably Sarkisian, after she gets out of the hospital, must report regularly to authorities during that period. In three months, ICE will decide whether to resume efforts to deport Sarkisian, who underwent surgery Monday, Baziyants said.
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Anoush Sarkisian is not in the mood for celebrating Independence Day this year, nearly two decades after first touching U.S. soil.
This Fourth of July is scheduled to be the last in Las Vegas for the 50-year-old mother of five girls. Authorities plan to deport her Monday.
Sarkisian discovered this last week when she showed up for her monthly visit to local immigration authorities, and an official handed her what attorneys call a “bag and baggage” letter. It dryly informed her that “arrangements will be made for your departure to Armenia” on July 6.
It looks like the end of nearly five years of back-and-forth between the Las Vegas family and the federal government. The outcome will either separate Sarkisian from her daughters, three of whom are under age 18 and born in the United States, or force the girls to build a new life in a land they know next to nothing about, and whose language they neither speak well nor write. It’s also a country that didn’t exist when Sarkisian came to the United States. When she left her homeland, it was part of the Soviet Union.
The family’s U.S. immigration case has involved the highest-ranking U.S. senator; a diocese with 45 parishes in 13 states; officials in Immigrations and Customs Enforcement; local and Los Angeles jails, courts and lawyers; local and national news media; and of course, the government of Armenia.
In January 2005, immigration officials attempted to deport Anoush’s two eldest daughters, Emma, then 18, and Mariam, then 17, to Armenia. After the girls spent several weeks in an L.A. jail amid increasingly intense media coverage, Nevada Sen. Harry Reid intervened at the last minute to stop the order.
But the same outcry hasn’t accompanied attempts begun this year to deport Anoush, and Armenia recently agreed to accept her, though she isn’t really a citizen of that country, either.
Immigration officials say they are just carrying out an order of deportation. An appeal of that order sits unanswered at the Board of Immigration Appeals. On May 6, her attorney, Arsen V. Baziyants, filed a formal request to reopen the case.
Federal officials caught up with Anoush this year when they discovered she was giving a deposition in an auto accident lawsuit. Several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surprised her outside a law office on Feb. 2, ordering her out of her car and into handcuffs in front of Emma, now 22.
Nearly two months in a jail cell followed, including, she said, four days chained to a hospital bed. Anoush suffers from diabetes, migraines and heart problems. The federal government released her March 26 under an “order of supervision,” meaning she had to report regularly to immigration officials in Las Vegas.
Emma and Mariam have been under the same order since their detention four years ago, when they were teens working in their father’s suburban strip mall pizzeria. Their arrests and the family’s pleas for help placed them under the glare of national media attention and in the debate over immigration law.
The family’s mixture of immigration statuses dates to the early 1990s, when Rouben Sarkisian came to the U.S. with Anoush. They had three daughters together. He divorced Anoush and remarried a U.S. citizen, which put him on a path to citizenship. Anoush sought political asylum from the U.S. government, but after nearly nine years lost her case. The government ordered her deported in 1999, but she thought the case was under appeal until 2003, when she sought legal counsel and discovered that her former attorney had never pursued an appeal.
Rouben has become a U.S. citizen and petitioned for Emma’s and Mariam’s citizenship. But that will take years. The daughters won’t be able to file similar petitions for their mother until they are citizens themselves. The eldest U.S.-born daughter, Michelle, can’t petition for her mother to become a citizen until she turns 21 — in four years. Rouben can’t petition for Anoush because they are divorced.
Baziyants, Anoush’s attorney, filed his recent appeal with the Board of Immigration Appeals invoking a law meant, in part, for people from former Soviet republics. Attorneys incorrectly advised her more than a decade ago that she wasn’t eligible for help under this law.
As for the appeal, the board told Baziyants that rulings aren’t made quickly on appeals unless a person is detained. So only bringing Anoush to authorities on July 6 would force the board to make an emergency decision, an official told the lawyer.
A pending appeal “does not, however, preclude removal,” Pat Reilly, a spokeswoman for ICE, noted in an e-mail to the Sun.
Harout Markarian, executive director of the Western Diocese of the Armenian Church, is not optimistic. The diocese, with 500,000 followers in the Los Angeles area alone, pleaded this year with Sen. Reid’s staff to consider the humanitarian issues involved in separating the family.
But now, Markarian said, “We’ve been in touch with prominent immigration lawyers and judges ... and it seems that immigration authorities have cut off all avenues.”
Markarian receives calls from the eldest Sarkisian daughters daily, finding them in tears.
On Wednesday, Emma accompanied Anoush to a doctor, trying to understand the medical implications of putting her mother through the stress and strain of being deported. The family hoped authorities would take this into consideration. The doctor found her short of breath and ordered her admitted to a hospital. On Thursday afternoon, a cardiologist had ordered an echocardiogram and results of an earlier stress test.
Emma was beside herself and red-eyed. This should be a weekend for Armenian shish kebabs and American fireworks in the family’s back yard. Normally it’s a double affair, because her sister Elizabeth’s birthday is the 5th. She turns 17 on Sunday.
This year, Emma said, “nobody feels like celebrating.”
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Sounds like there's more to this story than the Sun is reporting. Why didn't Anoush study and apply to become a US citizen? What has she been doing since the "early 1990s" when her immigration problems started?
It's a little late, but she should have been trying to help herself instead of looking to others.
This sounds like some other sob story I heard about a couple of years ago, at that time we were told the daughters would be "forced into prostitution" if they were sent back to where ever. I bet there is underlying crime conviction involved. Maybe Mexico will give them asylum? They are always calling for compassion for "migrants." They always seem to be healthy enough to get here but not to go back.
According to Sgt Davey of the Eurasian crime task force of Glendale, CA police department, there is quite a network of Armenian-Russian organized crime. The Glendale Mayor, himself an Armenian American, wants more law enforcement directed at organized crime activities that often involve: credit card fraud, identity theft, auto accident insurance fraud, medical/medicare fraud, and immigration fraud.
Many of these organised crime members can go to countries that have no extradition treaty with the US. There are 14 murders in Southern California linked to these Armenian Gangs, and 100 violent assaults. While I have no evidence of crimes related to these people in the article, something does not fit. "Hauled off after a deposition in an accident case?" Sounds like some insurance company dropped a dime on someone in their database?
I'm going to look for docket numbers and information regarding accident litigation.
You want to stay here?....file your papers.Heard a version of this story a million times.What I don't understand is,she and her family is only one of perhaps millions in the same boat. INS latches onto you...they don't let go,period.
Give her a bottle of antibiotics and SHIP THEM OUT.
Even the father's citizenship was a SHAM!
Such humanitarians can be found commenting here. Always assuming the worst. It couldn't possibly be that this family has been caught up in the stiffened INS regulations that were adopted to stop terrorists.
I would think this story would generate a little sympathy. Rather than think the worst of these people, shouldn't we be compassionate? The INS is a big bureaucracy, immigration laws are hard to understand and immigration lawyers do fail to file papers. This family has lived in the US a long time. They were business owners, tax payers, school students - Americans in all but citizenship. This is a shame and I pray for all of them.
Bye bye
Is she getting free health care and then a free ticket back to armenia after breaking the laws here? I should go to another country with a one-way ticket whenever I need surgery so that I don't have to pay for it and then get a free trip back to the U.S.
You thought wrong if you think that I am sympathetic towards illegal immigrants and wasting tax dollars. All this money could have support actual citizens, kept an extra teacher at a school, etc.
Actually the "stiffened INS regulations" didn't take place until after 9-11, this family has been playing this game since early 90's.
I agree the fathers status is a sham also, divorce one, marry another, get legal, then try to get ex-wife legal?
And LV Sun, you should be ashamed of yourself. Do you want to know why I and so many others have no compassion here?
For you to take this photo you had to have consent, meaning that she was communicating with you, then you stage it to look as pathetic as possible in efforts to solicit compassion. She was no more asleep than I am green.
Try telling the truth, have some integrity, in both word and in deed.
Good bye! Not any sympathy here!
Now we need to deal with the rest the illegal immigrants who are raping this nation!
Obama, McCain and Bush can take "immigration reform"(i.e. amnesty) and shove it.
lvmachead,The facts are this woman and her daughters had nearly two decades to resolve this problem. Humanitarians are not the issue here. Accepting responsibility and quit gaming the system are. This woman was made aware many times this day was coming. There is not one derogatory or personal attack on this woman just the facts.
dahlette The INS is doing it's job. This family intentionally ignored their responsibility and options.
You can bet if Monday she were not being deported she would not be posed in a hospital bed either. More gaming of the system.
"Anoush suffers from diabetes, migraines and heart problems."
This woman is 50????? She sure doesn't look like she is starving. Ah yes....that good American life.
And why did she never try and secure U.S. Citizenship? SHe's been here for years.
PS Bet she gets all her medicines for free, too.
i was born in america and if i get pulled over and get a ticket for expired tags on my car, i want the same "no tolerance" policy toward people who AREN'T citizens.
throw her out.
Have these people been voting, paying their taxes, etc.?
I certainly hope so - then they might have a case if they have been good 'undocumented' citizens...
If they have been leaching on the system (I wonder if the pizzaria has been audited??? All cash business...), getting free medical, filing fradulent insurance claims, then send them packing...
For that matter, we should deport first incarcerate all criminal illegals for the maxiumum amount of time doing HARD LABOR - building roads, mining minerals, farm labor - and then deport them. Second time they cross the border, they should be executed.
Lastly, this punishment should also apply to domestic criminals - we should deport all criminals back to their original 'motherland' after they serve time.
my guess is a lot of you hateful folks are also part of the big old Christian "family values" group. do I sniff a bit of the hypocracity you tend to be known for?
read up on immigration law. it is very flawed. you cannot just drop in an office and file paperwork.
this woman could have gone out and married someone to solve her problem. instead she trusted a lawyer and look what that got her.
I hope you are each at least grateful that circumstance allowed you to be born here. your comments do not offer up the best of what this country is supposed to be about.
Happy Independence Day.
She should also have a judgement against her to repay a portion or all of the expenses the US had for her case and deportation.
I'm thinking of going to Mexico and then hopping the border, change my name to Paco, and finally get the American dream by opening a Full-Service Mexican Restaurant fully paid off the next day!
They only want a better life for their families; and they will lie, cheat, steal from yours to get it!
We are supposedly a country of laws, and they should be followed. I am tired of the sob stories. My ancestors came here legally, and dealt with all sorts of hardships.
I am not anti-immigrant, as almost all of us are from immigrants somewhere down the line. Lets close the loop holes in immigration, especially the crap that if you are born here you are a citizen. How about if you are born of US citizens you are a citizen?
I am not christian, nor am I anti-immigrant. I am anti-illegal activities though!! THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR ILLEGAL ACTIVITY. She is here illegally, so she should not only get the boot, but her country should get the bill for her hospital costs, medication costs, transportation costs, and INS costs that U.S. taxpayers pick up.
Another thing about illegals, how do you know if there are sex offenders in your neighborhood if these people are undocumented?
Happy Independence Day.
PKSmith
Go read your history books again. The Revoluntionary War was fought to be free from tyranny and the Constitution was written
for the law-abiding CITIZENS of THESE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. It was not written for illegals, terrorists, detainees at Gitmo, or for any other person who comes here to live and does nothing to become a legal citizen (don't even bring up "well they paid taxes" - we're still supporting them in other ways, ie health care); in other words in plain ENglish - it was not written to protect those who stay here illegally without even making the effort. We owe these people NOTHING. Blood has been shed for this country for the last 233 years so YOU can live a nice life. And if you feel so strongly about these people, than share your nice life with them even though they refuse to abide by the laws of the United States.
hey INS: check the bars, fast food chains, landscaping and all construction companies....
you might catch another one...
nice sob story Pratt, now write about how many americans are out of jobs because of all the illegal aliens that are working in them......then take a good look at california's financial woes caused by all the free medical care and welfare for all these people...
Roosevelt deported 12 million people in the depression to make sure that americans could get jobs....where are our politicians now? all they are trying to do is get more voters for their party....
Glad to see they are throwing her out! Why did it take so long? She should take her family with her. People who break into my country and abuse the system will never get any compassion from me. Pull that IV out of her arm and give her a good beat down for breaking the law. You know what happens when someone breaks into her country...they get shot! Don't let her take anything other than the cloths on her back. Give her a sandwich a bottle of water and the cheapest ticket back as possible. And drop the sandwich on the floor when you had it to her.
Bye! Have a safe trip.
Look how FAT she got in the good ole USA! I bet she dont get feed this good back in her country.
You do not play by the rules bye bye you freeloader!
Obesity is big problem for women in Armenia.
They seem to blow up after ages 35-40. Not only Armenia, but Bosnia and Kosovo alike. It has to be the water.
Lets not stop with this one!
There is at least ten million more that are ready for deportation.
Get with the program AMERICA!
Here is the way for "OBAMA" to afford his nationalized health care for AMERICANS! Get rid of the ones who are not!!!
This message was posted by an independent voter and if I am going to be paying for others medical care, let them be AMERICANS.
If you want to come to the United States come here through legal means. Why is that so difficult to understand? Yes, it takes a long time but do it LEGALLY! America, wake up, California, New York, Florida, and our own state of Nevada have budget deficits going through the roof. How much free food,school,medical care and homes can we continue to dish out. Would some politican have the ba__s to look at what ILLEGAL immigration COSTS the American people. I for one am tired of taking care of everyone else and not our own country first!
PK Smith
Allow me to share some of my "family values" with you.
I am not religious in any way, but respect all of those who have a religion and beleive.
So from my family to you-------
UP YOURS!!!!!!!
Why are the politicians so afraid to actually put strict guidelines into effect regarding all these illegals? No amnesty, no free health care, no free schooling, no having babies so the babies will be automatic citizens, no free ANYTHING unless you are legal. What can possibly happen - the illegals get pissed and leave on their own??? They going to start a revolution? And absolutely NO using the Constitution to stay in America. It wasn't written for the illegals. For every illegal cleaning lady that goes back - there are 5 Americans waiting for her job. You know, AMerican women and men can make beds and clean, too!!! But then the casinos would have to raise the hourly rate and we know that will never happen!!
Man up Obama Administration!! And Nevada, too!! Enough already.
Good riddance.
the illegals and the hippie liberal social programs to support all of them is the reason california had to issue IOU's today to pay their bills.
you want to come to america?
AWESOME!
immigrants are the reason we have a diverse country. everything for our dining options, to entertainment, to our scientific knowledge comes from people that came here from someplace else.
it's when you do it ILLEGALLY that is the problem.
i am so sick of the bleeding heart liberals and the holy rollers that always want to paint people against ILLEGAL immigration as hate mongers.
stevem - This liberal (very liberal) would like to see all illegals deported.
ship her COD
No doubt that this is a sad story, however there are a lot of sad stories out there. There are military wives, children and veterans that need care, benefits, and support, there are laid off workers and businesses closing everywhere you turn, there are millions of Americans facing unthinkable hardships right now. This woman probably could have been more proactive, but I would prefer our resources to be spent on Americans before Armenians. No bias intended, but we have limited resources and they need to be used on the right people.
Well, it certainly took long enough. Which leads me to two questions:
1) Given the fact that the Libs always have a reason why we can't solve the illegal situation (12 foot fence? They'll use a 13 foot ladder! Workplace raids? Waaah, don't be so mean to the "families"! Local reprting to ICE by Metro? How dare you racially profile? and on and on), how is it that Roosevelt managed to kick 12
million illegals to the curb where they belong?;
and
2) Why is Dear Leader's fellow Kenyan Auntie still in this country? She is here illegally, getting free housing and other government goodies that we have to pay for.
Also, FYI: Did you know that Dear Leader's forced socialized medicine plan includes coverage for illegals? Well, it does. (Of course, HE and his family, the Las Vegas Land Swindler and all the other Wasington elites are EXEMPT from this program, as is clearly written in the legislation. I can't imagine why...)
bye bye - send them all back - we dont need any more non usa folks here!!! too bad sick - who is paying for hospital??? US??? see ya
Skimming the majority of comments posted here, there's only one thing to say, and someone else said it so much better than I could:
"...how little does the common herd know of the nature of right and truth." -- Socrates in Plato's "Euthyphro" 380 B.C.E.
PKSmith,Quit it. Christianty has nothing to do with this.
Narcissa,Some of your points are valid. You must include the Bush administration,John McCain and many other conservatives who do the biding of the U.S.Chamber of Commerce as well regarding illegal immigrants and their right to be in America. John McCain refers to them passionately as Gods children It is not an all liberal agenda as you make it out to be. The fence along the southern border was stonewalled by the Bush admintration for months as well as enforcement of immigration laws. The Bush administration imprisoned two American border patrol agents who had the audacity to shoot a twice convicted illegal drug smuggler who fired on them first. During the Bush administration many states gave in state status to illegal immigrants to attend their universities while Americans paid the higher out of state tuition.Who was protecting American citizens while this was going on?
KillerB What is rightful and truthful about illegally being in any country o wise one?
This is bullcrap. There is 50 illegals in front of home depot as I speak. Go deport them. At least this woman tried. These home depot illegals laugh in our tax paying faces. Where is the justice. America has its head up its own ass.
Homer, you are absolutely correct and I could not agree with you more. I expressed those same sentiments to the RNC operator calling for money, which happened to be during the last amnesty boondogle with McCain Kennedy. In fact, not only did I refuse to give another dime due to Bush's complete blind spot with regard to illegal immigration, as I also told the operator, I'll vote for Nancy Pelosi for president before I donate more money since it's no different anyway, at least as it pertains to Bush's inaction on illegals and that insane amnesty bill.
So, I will rephrase the question to include all the evil Rockefeller Country Club Republicans who put profit over what is best for America. Traitors all!!
Everyone needs to play by the same rules. That way legal immigration will work if they don't spend nine years trying to get some one out of the country. Once they catch them, send them back, it's not fair to everyone whom is coming in the right way. jmo
homer -- your answer is on the plaque in the Statue of Liberty's mount. Where did YOUR ancestors come from?
Send them back. My greatgrandparents came through Ellis Island, only spoke Scottish. followed the rules, learned American, took the classes, but followed the laws to imigrate. Why should this family or another be different? Why should they have the easy way out - they have had almost 2 decades to file the paperwork and follow it through. If it was important to them, they would never THINK!!!!! that an appeal was filed but make sure it was. They are hoping for a free ride. The government - yes ours. have a program called the 1011 Trailblazer program to provide emergent medical care for these illegals. Yet because of what is provided to them our OWN legal residents have trouble getting care and do not get their bills paid by the government. SHIP THEM ALL BACK to their home countries and let them follow the rules! Not just this family but all illegals in our country including children born to them while they are here. Those children should be children of their parents, not granted immediate US citizenship because their parents gained access to our country illegally. This family was LAZY! We have enough problems in our country with our legal citizens. Let their countries care for them. I think that anyone coming to our country illegally should have a immediate 5 year waiting period before they can return at the very least. let those who have followed the rules for citizenship get first crack living here
If they are going to tell SOB stories then how about telling ones where our school and medical and prison and emergency systems are spread thin to support illegals.
I hold my breath.
That will go against the Sun's political goals.
They are illegal so let's shoot them,all of them.
Why not?
Plus, "alien" qualifies them to be thrown into a gas chamber,Yeah.
These comments above sound like a Nazi era propaganda,so I thought to be more authentic.
Also for all of you that have no idea about immigration laws,she is not an illegal since she came to the States legally,applied for asylum which was denied hence the deportation.
There's the rule of law and then the spirit of the law that governs with compassion which is unsent in here.
This family is a good law abiding family, they are NOT illegals. Their only crime was not filling out the proper paperwork. The 3 younger girls are citizens because of birth in the USA, the father is American because he married an American woman. Hence the mother and two oldest girls got their paperwork shuffled around especially after the divorce.
The USA has over 12 million in illegal immigrants in this country, that knowingling and willingly jump our border. Our prisons are bulging with illegals who have committed crimes. Heinous drug cartels, etc.,
Those girls have never been in trouble and want to contribute to the USA. In Nevada, Mr. Reid is very good friends with one of the wealthest Armenians Kirk Kerkorian, owner of MGM and other well-known businesses.
Mr.Kerkorian's Lincy Foundation has just donated $14 million to UNLV. This is the first time his money has gone to non-Armenian groups.
We are a giving ethnic group that has contributed much to our society in patents, music, sports you name it. most of you that celebrate your freedom and democracy do so because Armenia was the first Christian Democratic Nation in 301 AD, and worked very hard with through genocides to be crusaders and spread the word to the new world.
Don't punish this family or tear them apart, it is a crime. These girls might grow up to be like Dr. Amadian who discovered the MRI, or Andre Agassi (an Armenian who is the worlds best tennis player) or a fantastic entertainer like Cher(Sherilyn Sarkisian)
They deserve to be in America. They are more American than most of us. Through all of this they still love this country immensely.
The American government needs to rid our country of the Illegals that siphon money off of our social services, health care, criminals. Do something about that.
i dont understand why a lot of racist rednecks talk obout america like if they really belive they have been here from the begining of the time, let me remind you that your parents came from the same continent of this poor woman (r.i.p.)and after bit the hands that feed them (native americans) they took control of this land. so come on people and think with your brain and if you are human beings, with your heart as well no with your feet or even worse...with your red neck lol!!!