Border Separates Senior Center Couple

PROVO, Utah (AP) - A 96-year-old man who outlived two wives is separated from his third - by immigration problems. Canadian Doreen Buttery, 73, was a temporary visitor when she met Leonard "Woody" Woodward at a senior center in Provo. They wed this year and honeymooned in Alberta - which gave Buttery the chance to sell her house and prepare to move to Provo permanently. But she hadn't filled out the paperwork to immigrate and was stuck at the border as her husband took the bus back to Provo. "We tried to provide her as much guidance as we could," said Larry Overcast, port director at the Customs and Border Protection entry point in Sweetgrass, Montana. Woodward and a neighbor who has a law degree are trying to put together the paperwork to bring Doreen back. But it is a complicated process that takes time. "It's on a merry-go-round," Woodward said. Buttery will also have to go through an interview, so U.S. officials can determine the marriage is legitimate and not just an attempt to bypass immigration rules. Woodward said can still get by on his own, but he doesn't like it. "I need her home, bad," he said
This is a perfect example of what is wrong with this country and why we have immigration problems. I live on Staten Island in a decently nice neighborhood however just walking outside I see a huge immigration problem and its not involving 73 year old women. I see about 40 Mexicans on the street corners in my neighborhood waiting to be picked up and brought to a days work. Now I am not saying that these are the only illegal immigrants in this country I am just giving examples of what I see everyday. Now because they are illegal they do not pay taxes and their children go to public school and get an education on the tax dollars of American citizens. Now I am not saying kick all illegal immigrants out I am just making a connection with the two. I mean if we can support families and generations of illegal immigrants in this country why can we just let the 73 year old woman pass by smoothly. She is at least attempting to do things the right way and we give her grief I mean how much damage could she possibly cause, tax payers will help pay for her medicaid and whatever other expenses the elderly require but she would be a citizen who pays taxes so realistically she would be pulling her own wait unlike the thousands upon thousands of illegal immigrants who made it here. I'm not saying deport everyone I am just saying that there is an obviously immigration problem in this country so instead of hounding old woman in Canada maybe we should stop the young people from poorer countries that are just coming here to start a family and make a better life and add to the immigration problem. Its not like this woman can reproduce added to the overcrowded problem in this country.