UMF student barred from returning for studies

[MaineDem]

FARMINGTON -- A part-time freshman from Taiwan at the University of Maine at Farmington may not be able to return to her life in Maine because she volunteered to write columns that celebrated life in Maine for the Franklin Journal.

Immigration officials regard those columns as illegal work because she was paid expenses.

Huei-Ju "Lulu" Yen, a 23-year-old budding writer, remains barred for five years from re-entering the United States, two weeks after she left Maine to spend Chinese New Year with her family at their fishing village home of Keelung in Taiwan.

Left stranded in Maine are not just Yen's books and clothes, but a young woman's hopes reflected in a small body of writing that still moves readers to call the Franklin Journal to offer praise, encouragement and now, their help.

http://www.centralmaine.com/news/local/404103.shtml

Our Homeland Security at work. :eyes:

[Fla_Dem]

1. This is the part I can't believe

"Aides in the office of U.S. Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, have stepped in to try to extricate Yen from the snafu, after the Franklin Journal's editor alerted them to the woman's plight."

A repuke office actually doing something that seems correct ??????

[quispquake]

2. Collins is indeed a repuke...

...but she's not as extreme as some, and our other Republican Senator, Olympia Snowe, is more of an independent than Republican...

They are both considered 'moderates' in their party...