...K P F T news...K P F T newsSTORY: The INS intended to deport six of nine members of the Kesbeh family to Amman, Jordan today. But the deportation was halted, after a private bill authored by local Congresswoman, Sheila Jackson Lee, was received by the Senate late yesterday afternoon.
In an eleventh-hour-move, Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy called on the subcommittee on immigration in the U.S. Senate to investigate the merits of the INS deportation order.
The Kesbeh family will stay in the United States until the end of the Congressional session in January [when the report is completed.]
Meanwhile, the father and eldest son [Sharif and Alaa Kesbeh were arrested in March] of the Kesbeh family are still in an INS detention center in Houston.
According to the INS, they are security threats.
Jackson Lee sees this battle as far from over:
"But we're still in a very complicated process and we still really do need help ...my desire is to have the family united, and right now because of the sensitive nature of the situation, we have to stay in negotiations at this point...with anyone who will listen...both the congress and the administration."
Jackson Allers, KPFT news, Houston.
E-mail Jackson Allers at jacksona@earthlink.net.