Immigration law in Kansas brings upheaval for mixed couples, where one is illegal

When Kecia Sales and Juan Marquez were married, they were like scores of other couples: very much in love with plans to live together for the rest of their lives.

But it wasn’t to be.

After their December 2004 marriage, he told her he had been living illegally in the U.S. since 1999. After leaving Mexico, Marquez had made his way to her hometown of Kansas City, Kan., where they met and married, and she took his name.

They became one of an estimated two million mixed families, where at least one member is a citizen or lawfully living in the country and the other isn’t. The vast majority of those families, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, involve an illegal parent and legal children - yet another shade of the ongoing immigration conundrum in the U.S.”*

*From: http://canadianpress.google.com
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