Very tough immigration question for you immigration GURU's. Please Help!?

[eorl]

My mother in law came here illegally from El Salvador in 1983. She was caught at the border and a judge sentenced her to be deported.

-She decided to stay after her deportation date.
-Within a year she filed for ABC and got it.
-She then filed for political asylum and they declined it.
-She then filed for NACARA and because she missed a deadline on Sept 1998 they declined the application.
-Due to the NACARA she now has to report to the ICE agency every month to check in.
-She is still in the USA under the TPS act.

Will a pardon letter from the governer help?
Will a pardon from the president help?
Does she have any other options?

She went to an attorney and they charged her $3k to tell her she is SOL and once TPS runs out she will be deported. The attorney will not speak with her unless she pays more fees.

Any advice would be great.

Her husband is a Permanent resident here but suffered a Sever stroke and is now bed ridden. She is his care giver. Can this prove hardship?

Her son is 23 and a US citizen.

[jerrick]

So she has two orders of deportation: one from being caught at the border, she got "catch and release" which they did back then, and ignored it

Then filed for asylum, and it got denied, and she ignored that.

She has one 23 year old anchor baby.

I would say it doesn't really matter.

[pascoe69]

Have they considered having her 23 yr old US citizen son start a petition for her? A child can petition their parent when they are 21 so long as they meet the financial requirements.

Oh an change attorneys. She got taken for a ride.

[tai38]

Her best thing would be to start getting ready to return home ....

[bergh39]

Her husband is not going to be an excuse for a hardship waiver since he apparently has other relatives in the US legally who can help him, e.g. the son. TPS is temporary, and she must return to her country of citizenship before it expires. There is no possibility of a pardon from a governor, etc, since governors have no federal authority. She's not getting a pardon from the president.

She is incredibly arrogant to think she can repeatedly violate laws, evade deportation, and have her illegal behavior excused! She needs to return to her own country. There is no way she can ever become legal in the US now because of her repeated violations of deportation orders, etc. If she had returned home when she was first ordered deported, and completed her 10 year bar to reentry, she might have had a chance by now to return legally. Her persistant violations of the law have rendered it impossible now that she can ever do anything but return to her country of citizenship permanently. Her absolute arrogance, disdain for the law, lawbreaking, have made her ineligible for any visa to go anywhere ever. Countries share info now, a lot more than they used to, so she cannot get into any other country either. Worthless POS immigration-law violators are never welcome anywhere. Not anymore.