Heartache can await couples when one partner is here illegally

“Harrell and Molina, both 35, married in 2001, in a large wedding attended by family from both sides and blessed by pastors in English and Spanish. But the Harrells no longer live together, not because of divorce, but because Gricelda Harrell, now the mother of two sons and four months pregnant with their third child, has been deported. She had applied for legal residency, or a green card, with her new husband as her sponsor, Kenneth Harrell Jr. said, but she was sent back to Honduras 20 months ago because of her illegal entries and told she would have to wait 10 years to try again.

“Illegals are pouring over the border,” said Harrell, who has visited his family five times. “We meet them, we fall in love with them, we marry them. And then the government tears your family apart, and they take no responsibility for letting them in, in the first place.”"

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