butterbean
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 Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:45 pm Post subject: No green card, no free car - Hahahaha! Deport Her! |
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No green card, no free car
Raffle winner sues, says she faces threat of deportation
January 25, 2007
BY RUMMANA HUSSAIN Staff Reporter
Winning a Chevrolet Corvette is the stuff of dreams.
P>In Maribel Nava Alvarez's case, it has been a nightmare.
The former Little Village resident said officials with local radio station La Ley 107.9 FM and its parent company, Spanish Broadcasting System, withheld the gray sports car she won in a La Ley raffle when they discovered she was an undocumented resident.
Maribel Nava Alvarez (inset) claims she was threatened after winning a contest for a car like this one, a 1999 Corvette.
What's worse, she said, is that an SBS attorney allegedly threatened to alert authorities of her immigration status once he learned she intended to take her battle to court.
"I was very sad. I cried. ... My feelings were hurt because I was mocked," Alvarez, 22, said in her native Spanish on Wednesday. "It's unjust."
Despite La Ley's claims, Alvarez said she was never informed verbally or in print that she had to be U.S. citizen or legal resident to be eligible to win Mexican-American singer Juan Rivera's old car during the July 4, 2005, contest at the Plaza Garibaldi, 2600 S. California.
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