Deported from the USA

Carla Freeman (27), a South African widow, has returned to Nelspruit voluntarily and will not be able to return to the US for 10 years. She has a pending application to appeal against American authorities' decision to deport her. Advocate Brent Renison is representing her. Carla is one of many widows ordered to leave the US after being married to Americans for less than 2 years. She met her husband, Robert, in 2000 while working as a child-minder in the US. When she returned to South Africa, he visited her and proposed. After 11 months of married life in the US, he was killed in a car accident. Last May, Carla was arrested and jailed by immigration officials.