Nanny’s time in U.S. running out

Via The Boston Herald

Time is running out for a 32-year-old Hingham nanny who overstayed her student visa and is set to be deported to her native Belgium Thursday.
Victorian Vannerom has spent the last month in the Suffolk House of Correction at South Bay awaiting deportation after her arrest in January by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Efforts by her employers - two Hingham biotech executives whose twin sons Vannerom cared for - to legally adopt her have failed, said Alicia Secor, 43.

Secor and husband Jim McGorry, 49, hired Vannerom in 2004 and said she has become an integral part of their family.
“It’s a shame. I can’t tell you how much we are going to miss her,” Secor said. “I still feel in my heart of hearts there should be a legitimate way for her to stay in the United States.”
The Vannerom case has raised questions about how aggressively ICE should target immigrants in the United States who hold down jobs, have no criminal record and pay taxes, as Vannerom did.

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Posted by Ashwin Sharma at 3/1/2006 2:35 PM
Categories: Immigration and Customs Enforcement, General News, Articles and Commentaries, Detention and Removal
 
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