Senator Feinstein Introduces Private Bill To Get Green Cards for Mr. and Mrs. Cabrera
Benjamin Cabrera arrived in the United States from his native Mexico as a teenager. Londy traveled here a few years later from Guatemala.
They married and set out to seek the American Dream. Londy gave birth to two lovely daughters, Diana and Jocelyn. They mentored their children, and both became straight-A honor students. Diana received a scholarship from Johns Hopkins University at the tender age of 11. The parents saved their money and became homeowners. They paid their income taxes.
Most of the couple’s relatives, their daughters, parents, brothers and sisters, and nieces and nephews are either US citizens or permanent residents.
However, because of huge waiting times and increasingly restrictive immigration laws, the only way for the Cabreras to achieve permanent residence was to have our law firm place them before an Immigration Judge, and to ask the Judge to grant their applications for Cancellation of Removal. This was risky business since if the Cabreras were unsuccessful, they would be forced to leave the United States.
Immigration Judge Bruce Einhorn granted Mr. and Mrs. Cabrera’s applications for cancellation of removal.
However, the government appealed the matter to the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) which overturned the Judge’s decision.
In the meantime, the family’s plight received widespread and sympathetic attention in the media. Senator Diane Feinstein introduced a private bill in the Senate to grant green cards to Mr. and Mrs. Cabrera.