02-02-2012, 03:02 PM
not that it matters now, but the entire family was illegal. the church is asking for donations to bury them.
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Fifteen-year-old Lidiane Carmo, far right, lost her mother, father, sister, pictured left, and uncle in a crash caused by smoke from a brush fire that produced blackout conditions on I-75 near Gainesville on Sunday. Family claimed Miss Carmo came to the U.S. from Brazil on a tourist visa twelve years ago and never left, but U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency said the high school freshman will not be forced to return to the country.
The family were part of a church delegation returning from a conference in Orlando to their home in Georgia when the accident happened along northbound lanes of the interstate.Mr Amazonas, senior pastor at the Igreja Internacional de Restaurcao, or International Church of the Restoration in Marietta, Georgia, outside Atlanta - where the young girl's father was a pastor - said parishioners feared she might be forced to return to Brazil after officials discovered she was in the U.S. illegally, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Fifteen-year-old Lidiane Carmo, far right, lost her mother, father, sister, pictured left, and uncle in a crash caused by smoke from a brush fire that produced blackout conditions on I-75 near Gainesville on Sunday. Family claimed Miss Carmo came to the U.S. from Brazil on a tourist visa twelve years ago and never left, but U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency said the high school freshman will not be forced to return to the country.
The family were part of a church delegation returning from a conference in Orlando to their home in Georgia when the accident happened along northbound lanes of the interstate.Mr Amazonas, senior pastor at the Igreja Internacional de Restaurcao, or International Church of the Restoration in Marietta, Georgia, outside Atlanta - where the young girl's father was a pastor - said parishioners feared she might be forced to return to Brazil after officials discovered she was in the U.S. illegally, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.