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A MARRIED COUPLE who were separated after bogus claims they had entered into a sham marriage will be reunited before Christmas.
Kleber Medeiros was living with his wife Harriett Bruce in Ballinasloe, Galway, when he was deported to Brazil in July.
Despite the HSE sending Bruce an official letter stating that the sham marriage claims were unfounded, her husband had already been sent back to South America. Both parties had to be in Ireland to get their affairs in order but, as Medeiros was subject to a deportation order, he could not return.
But after months of campaigning to get her husband back, it emerged today that the couple will be back together in Ireland in the coming days.
Writing on Facebook, Harriett said she was delighted that her husband was returning home.
She wrote: “Kleber and I would like to thank everyone for all your calls, text messages, champagne, flowers, chocolates, biscuits and cards.
The support is unbelievable
“Excited is an understatement. We’ve no words to describe how happy we both are. This has been a very challenging few months but I gave it my all and eventually we got the justice we both deserve.”
Sinn Feín Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh welcomed the decision of the Minister for Justice to revoke the deportation order enforced against Medeiros.
He said: “I am delighted that the Minister has reversed her decision and that Kleber is now free to return home for Christmas.
“I was happy to play a small part in the campaign and I believe that bringing Harriett Bruce and other family members to Leinster House to put their case to TDs and Senators was crucial in that process.
It is fantastic that the pressure has worked and that the deportation order has been revoked.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie in October, Bruce described how the couple’s lives had been turned upside down.
She said: “All I want is my husband to be able to come back to Ireland. We have done nothing wrong. We’ve known each other for years. We’ve been together for three years. We had hundreds of people turn up at our wedding.
“Our marriage has been recognised by the church but not by the State.
There’s no protection in our country for people from different countries, cultures and races that fall in love and wish to marry.
“It’s my constitutional right to marry Kleber.
“There’s so much stress being put on us. We’ve only just got married. We shouldn’t be going through this. But if anything, it’s made us stronger.”
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Nnoooooooo!
@Dave Barrett: correct decision. It’s a split parliament so he (nor May) can get a vote through. Call an election and let the people put in a new parliament together. With Labour polling poorly BoJo will likely get the majority he needs to push his deal through. My guess is the UK will be out on 31st December so BoJo can start a new year, a new decade and a new vision from 2020.
@lambda sensor: brexit is the uk leaving the eu, its not the uk leaving the eu only if they get a deal an extension should NOT have been granted for the 3rd time
@lambda sensor: are you writing BoJos scripts? A new parliament a new year? Let’s call Brexit for what it is an imperialist racist vote. They couldn’t mess up the EU from inside and now they still want it all their own way. Filling news with sound-bytes of starvation and threats for Ireland. How can a nation be so deluded? EU should pull the pin and let them enjoy the fruits of their desires
@@Anthonyweim: i agree it will cripple us here but were irish if we could handle fighting them for 800 years we csn handle a no deal brexi, poor NI and the ogre up there would be f@:#==( though
@lambda sensor: a new vision? BoJo? Ha ha ha ha
@Dave Barrett: yes
@James Gorman #FBPE: 2020 vision? Great soundbite I am sure BoJo has thought of. Britain leading the way, all that sort of stuff.
@Karl Charlie: you dont seem to appreciate how damaging a No Deal would be for BOTH sides. The EU granted the extension to avoid damage on their side NOT the UKs side. By the way, this is only an interim agreement. There’s still the whole longterm arrangement between the UK and the EU to be sorted once they actually leave. This process will be going on for another 10 years or more. Look at NAFTA renegotiated after 25 years.
@lambda sensor: can we stop calling him BoJo ffs ? It’s not the Kardashian’s
@SF Knee Knockers: please nooooooooo.
@Cocker: actually it’s better to call him BoJo, it makes him sound like the clown he is. He doesn’t like the name.
He likes being called Borris, so I wouldn’t call him that.
@@Anthonyweim: how is Brexit imperialist? Check the definition of imperialism. Yes the UK is imperialist, but so is the EU. Brexit might be bad for imperialism if it pits various factions against eachother. That was how it was defeated after WW1 in Russia and Ireland.
@lambda sensor: Vision?
The year is 2192.
The British PM travels to Brussels to ask for the annual extension to Brexit.
Nobody knows when this tradition started but it always draws a good crowd.
@Dave Allman: Meanwhile a Terminator is sent back to 2016 to hunt down those responsible.
Brilliant. It’ll DEFINITELY be sorted by then
@Roy O’Rourke: it’s ridiculous. I’m sure parliament will still break for 2-3 weeks at Christmas.
@Roy O’Rourke: Doubtful
FFS. May as well be an extension until the 20th Jan 2031.
Shouldn’t have been granted. They voted out so out they should go. Deal or no deal.
@Paul Malone: how can they possibly go with no deal?
@Paul Malone: Over a million have died there since the last vote, and probably more than a million new registered voters too. There have been national and local elections since too. I think it needs a new vote to see where it stands, and this time it’s a vote with a plan, not just a survey on an idea.
FFS
The EU have no b”””s. Kick them out
@Shaun Gallagher: without a deal? I suppose you understand the whole “deal” thing?
@Paul Furey: They will have to make deals anyway after they leave so what’s the point of keeping up this charade. Let them leave and force them to act
@Shaun Gallagher: because both the EU and the UK need to do what is in each of their best interests. You know, a deal. Where both parties achieve something agreeable. A no deal situation is not in both parties best interests. The UK seek and extension to avoid a no deal. The EU grant the extension to avoid a no deal. It really is that simple
@Cocker: If it’s that simple a deal would have been done long ago. It’s all down to the EU not wanting UK to go and they are holding out for them to have another referendum which won’t happen either. It’s just a joke at this stage
@Paul Furey: They should go, that’s what they voted for. Having a deal wasn’t part of the referendum that Cameron called. It was a referendum on stay or go. It wasn’t a referendum based on stay or go out with a deal. Those that voted no just want out.
Yawn…
Borris l hope there is water in the ditch
@pat seery: dirty water…..
Of course they did. Sure without Brexit the press would be devoid of any other topic to ramble on about……..
UK says jump EU says how high for how long on one foot or two
@Karl Charlie: UK says EU help me as I’m still unable to sort out this pathetic mess I made for myself over 3 years ago….wahhh wahh wahhhhhhh!
@Karl Charlie: EU is jumping for nobody.
UK gov was forced into seeking an extention. The EU was being nice giving it. Nothing more
@Barry Somers: Yes by the remainder MPs The EU being nice what anidiot .
Just let them go ffs
Ah here , sick of this. Go back to the polls for a public vote. Their a disgrace at this stage
Your having a laugh
Part of me is laughing at the idiocy of Brexiteers for messing everything up time and time again, but the other part of me is just tired of this tbh.
@Keith O’Reilly: this extension wasn’t granted because people who want Brexit can’t get it done. It was granted because a number of politicians who don’t want Brexit are holding a minority government hostage. They’re asking for an amazing deal from a position of weakness knowing they will never get a deal good enough for them to accept. And they’re terrified of granting an election because they know they will be hit hard. They don’t want to lead, they want to sit back and force a minority government to give them what they want and are scared of the public.
@sVRCsaSg: Wrong! Ironically it’s the Brexiteer MPs that have been delaying everything by voting against all critical motions in parliament.
@Paul Furey: this extension was granted because Labour shot down the latest deal.
Maybe there was a time when the deal proposed wasn’t hardcore enough for some Brexiteers. But that certainly isn’t the case now and I think it would be tough to make a case that Labour voted down this deal because it’s not real a Brexit.
And Labour know that’s how people see them. And they’re terrified of an election because so many of their heartlands voted leave and won’t take kindly to their refusal to help deliver Brexit in good faith.
Huge shock … My ar$e.
Elitism blocking democracy.
Those whom lost vote on Brexit , the elite, establishment , etc , will not consent to democratic vote.
What’s to happen should brexit not happen as those whom lost are forcing on the people?
I understand here we were throdden on in both Nice and Lisbon. Brits will not concede to this anti democracy.
@Willy Mc Bride: waffle.
@Willy Mc Bride: you shot yourself in the foot there mentioning Lisbon. Go google what actually happened. As for anti democracy, BJ have wanted multiple votes in parliament and wont let the people another vote based on what they know now. They knew nothing 3.5 years ago.
The saga…. To be continued……
Boris only has another few days to find himself a luxurious ditch to lay down in
The year is 2192.
The British PM travels to Brussels to ask for the annual extension to Brexit.
Nobody knows when this tradition started but it always draws a good crowd.
@Dave Allman: the year is 2019 and Dave’s comment has been sent back in multiple times case no one saw it initially
We’re probably the only reason why the EU haven’t booted them out already, The Irish border issue should be important to them because it does effect them. Back in the day the nationalists and unionists had dealings with foreign terrorist organisations if shenanigans (damn You journal language filter) starts back up again who’s to say they won’t do so again which then becomes a problem for Europe
800 years waiting for them to leave Ireland and they still cling on.
Do you think I could get an extension to my house so easily?
@Red4fred: if Arlene Foster has a say you will be goosed.
Surprise surprise, never thought they would have got
Fantastic….it’s gives our government here another few months to keep blaming everything on Brexit….Jesus H Christ.
Boris Johson looking for a nice quiet ditch somewhere now?
I have to say my vocabulary and command of the English language grows almost weekly since this Brexit thing. Latest is now “Flextension”. There must be someone on the payroll just to come up with these new words.
Raging..
Everyone point at the Uk and laugh ……
The never ending story. ENOUGH Already.
Just when I was looking forward to the end of the Sky News countdown clock
If ever you wanted an example of “kicking the can down the road”
A FFS. The countdown clock on sky news will never reach zero at this rate
The ordinary British people are being ignored by the EU loving elites. The EU deserves to go the way of the USSR, which was also a totally corrupt unelected empire of privilege and bureaucracy.
@Eamon McGowan: sap
Another extension for them not to pass a deal..then second referendum
Ah sure keep it going lads …..joke
They are in it for the long haul…..Hotel California “you can never leave”, Johnston is backing a loser.DUP are saying they sent him to the naughty step ….twice oh! what power they hold.
Damn another three-month daily British mess in all media. Hopefully, the next prime clown is funny.
Hopefully Boris is choking down lots of crow and hating every second of it.
Someone should replace his red bus in photo shop with that big artic trailer in Essex and Nigel’s picture of emigrants marching
See will that put the grin on the other side of his ugly mug
And now he has lost all credibility with his own party. He insisted time & time again Oct 31st was the day. I think some very clever people lined him up to be the fall guy for this mess. Cameron ran a mile from it, May for all her efforts failed and now Boris has flinched. It’s the definition of clusterfu*k
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