Thank you, Eleanor! These dear, fragile people deserve every relief America can offer. I posted this on Facebook and trust that those who know Regina Bakala’s story will also respond to this.

am respectfully asking for Humanitarian and Fairness reason to fix the provision of the Material Support bar in the INA, once and for all.

The wait is depressive, it has been too long and overdue.
Please fix the material support bar that has separated families and loved ones; and made more than 6,000 people left out abandoned and marginal because of inaction and administration slowness.
The U.S Congress has already provided to the executive branch a full waiver authority with less restriction. why the wait, this is unnecessary and senseless.

Please urge the Adjudication of the Lawful Permanent Resident Cases that have been put on hold, cases involving the so-called Material Support Inadmissibility Grounds; and please issue Amendment to the Hold Policy for such affected Cases, the undesignated terrorist organizations Tier-III Groups.

The U.S. is betraying its commitment to provide Lawful Permanent Resident to asylees already screened, scrutinized, and fully settled in U.S.

If 20 years is not long enough for the US immigration system and the legislature to establish a potential threat an asylee would pose, America must be proving me wrong in my entire understanding of what I have grown up knowing and believing what this nation was all about- a beacon of freedom and hope, and a land of opportunity. Tier III Terrorist designation and so called Material Support to such groups, is probably one of the most irresponsible acts of a legislative body that often has been described as the best deliberative body in the free world. I am saddened by the general indifference of the parties to rectify the mistake and by their willingness to continue to keep us in immigration limbo for too long with no end in sight and no justification. It is an attempt to fabricate a “Terrorist” out of every innocent living soul of an asylee or refugee by decree and instill a false sense of security among citizens, while diverting scares resources and focus away from the real sources of threat to all of us. Terrorists would target all of us, including those who have been denied opportunities for no fault of our own. How much longer than 20 years does a potential terrorist would have to incubate before he or she would set out to harm others? Would granting a Green card or US Citizenship to an asylee or refugee cause one or the other to commit a terrorist act? Conversely, would allowing the same asylee or refugee to continue to live and work in the USA without granting him or her a Greencard or US Citizenship prevent the asylee or refugee from committing a terrorist act or harming others? I have not heard of or seen a research establishing a Greencard or US Citizenship used as an ingredient for making an IED by a potential terrorist.

Subject: 212 (a) (3) (B) of the INA and the civil rights.

As an attorney with a degree in law I always believed justice is a birth right of every human being and fair hearing and justice is the most important element of the constitution.
I filed for my I-485 adjustment of status on 21st October 1999, and on the 18th of April 2010, I received a letter from USCIS that my case has been pending for 11 years without my knowledge my case was put on a hold because I am inadmissible pursuant to the terrorist-related grounds of inadmissibility under section 212 (a)(3)(B) of the INA.
My attorney informs me that USA patriot Act and REAL ID Act takes away my constitutional rights under 7th amendment to fight against these bogus charges, the 7th amendment that gives any one on this soil the rights to a judiciary hearing and justice.
My only child my son who I have not seen for 6 years now lives with his mother in Canada.
Do I not have a right to a court hearing and justice for all these unfair legal system that I and my family had suffered?
On the other hand all this hard earned FICA deduction also remains in jeopardy if I am denied a Visa in the United States, I have made several requests to fairly return me my FICA for all these 20 years so I may look at other options as I do not feel safe here due to this I have lost faith in the United States justice system with such a horrible human rights violation and destruction of my family but my request gets ignored.
While United States continues its protest against human rights violations all over the world it continues to commit the horrible violence on its land with no option of justice for the victims, this brings the integrity of the United States way down, though it may look like incompetence by the DHS but it is actually a clear violation of constitution since there has not been a significant improvement in fixing the system.