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Over the
past 28 years, I have contacted various federal agencies to enlist their help. Around the end of January, 1980, I filed a
complaint with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service informing them that Ehigie Uzamere left me and did not return
and that I was pregnant with his child. During the ensuing months, I applied for child support with Family Court in Brooklyn;
however, Mr. Uzamere found a way to evade paying child support.
Eventually
I stopped working. I applied for governmental assistance for myself and for the child I had before I met my husband. I gave
the governmental assistance agency all the information I had regarding my husband, including the college he was attending,
the address he lived when I met him and his brother’s address. The government assistance agency did not find him.
I never
understood why the governmental assistance agency did not check with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service to find
him. I gave them all the information I had on him, including the fact that I sponsored him so that he could receive permanent
residence. New York State law requires parents who are employed to financially support their children, and Ehigie was a security
guard at the time that I met him. Additionally, the New York City child support agency should have had the ability to contact
any federal agency that had information concerning my husband’s whereabouts so that I could receive support on behalf
of our daughter.
No municipal,
state or federal agency has ever been successful in helping me find my husband, although my husband successfully started attending
Pratt in 1978 and completed his studies in 1983. He received his Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts in Architecture in October
1983.
I do not
believe that it is a coincidence that Senator Uzamere was never found by any governmental authorities and made to pay child
support. I believe that people in positions of authority have been unduly influenced to allow Senator Uzamere to evade the
law.
Below are
examples of some federal and other governmental officials whom I have begged to help me over the past few years:
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Honorable George
W. Bush
President of the
United States
The White House
Washington, DC
Fax: (202) 456-2461 |
Honorable Condoleeza
Rice
Secretary of State
U.S. Department of
State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520
Telephone: (202)
647-5291
Fax: (202) 647-0122 |
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Maura Hart
Assistant Secretary
Bureau of Consular
Affairs
U.S. Department of
State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520
Telephone: (202)
647-9622 |
Andrew Silski
Country Officer for
Nigeria
U.S. Department of
State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520 |
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Mary Ellen Sariti
2201 C Street NW
4th Floor
Washington, DC 20520
Telephone: (202)
736-9163
E-mail: saritime@state.gov |
Kathie Baker
Citizens Services
Specialist
U.S. Department of
State
2201 C Street NW
4th Floor
Washington, DC 20520
Telephone: (202)
736-9168 |
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Victoria Coffineau
Consular Officer
U.S. Department of
State
U.S. Embassy Abuja
Office
Plot 1075 Diplomatic
Drive
Central District Area
Abuja, Nigeria |
Robert Gribbin
Ambassador -- Chargé d’Affaires
U.S. Embassy Abuja
Office
Plot 1075 Diplomatic Drive
Central District Area,
Abuja
Abuja, Nigeria
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Peter Keisler, Esq.
Acting Attorney General
U.S. Department of
Justice
Fax: (202) 514-4507 |
Michael B. Mulkasey,
Esq.
Attorney General
U.S. Department of
Justice
Fax: (202) 514-4507 |
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Honorable Edolphus
Towns
U.S. Department of
Homeland Security
10th Congressional District
2232 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Telephone: (202)
225-5936
Fax: (202) 225-1018
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Richard L. Skinner
Inspector General
U.S. Department of Homeland
Security
Citizenship and Immigration Service
Washington, DC 20515
Fax:
(202) 254-4292 |
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Honorable Margaret
Spellings
U.S. Department of
Education
400 Maryland Avenue,
SW
Washington, DC 20202
Telephone: (202) 401-0596
Charles DeVito
Special Agent
U.S. Department of Homeland
Security
Immigration and Customs
Enforcement
JFK Airport
Building 75.
Jamaica, New York
Telephone: (718) 553-1825,
ext. 116
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Honorable Charles
E. Schumer
Senator -- New York
State
757 Third Avenue
Suite 1702
New York, NY 10017
Telephone: (212)
486-4430
Special Agent
El Dorado Task Force/DHS/ICE Office
Telephone: (646) 230-3405
Fax (646) 230-3487
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The last two agents claim
to be presently working on criminally investigating Senator Uzamere. Out of respect for the agent with whom I spoke at the
El Dorado Task Office, I will withhold the person’s identity.
Although the last two
agents have spoken about investigating Senator Uzamere on various federal charges, there has been no discussion of the pain
and suffering that I and my daughter have suffered as a result of Senator Uzamere's acts of terrorism against us. It seems
that when an Arab or other individual commits a crime of identity fraud that endangers the Jewish community, the United States
government enforces the spirit of the Patriot Act with such alacrity that all one can see is the dust left behind. However
when a foreign national commits a crime of identity fraud against an American schvartze like me, the United States government
barely raises her disinterested head.
Act of terrorism?
Terrorism does not always mean a bomb-threat against Jewish-owned property. Terrorism can oftentimes be acts of economic violence
– such as when a husband abandons his pregnant wife and later their child, and withholds his money as a way to extort
or coerce his wife's silence. Senator Uzamere has done this to me and our daughter for 28 years.
If you don't believe this is terrorism, try raising a child alone with no money
to pay rent, food, and no money for your child's college tuition and books.
It is terrifying.
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