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:
George W. Bush President of the United States The White House
Washington, DC Fax: (202)
456-2461 | 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 |
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 |
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 |
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
|
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 |
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 |
Richard L. Skinner
Inspector General U.S.
Department of Homeland Security Citizenship and Immigration Service Washington,
DC 20515 Fax: (202) 254-4292 |
Margaret Spellings
U.S.
Department of Education 400 Maryland Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20202 Telephone:
(202) 401-0596
|
Senator
Charles E. Schumer
Senator -- New York State 757 Third Avenue Suite
1702 New York, NY 10017 Telephone: (212) 486-4430 |
Senator John Sampson
9114 Flatlands Avenue
Brooklyn,
NY 11236
Tel: (718) 649-7653
Fax: (718) 649-7661 |
Senator
Hillary Rodham Clinton
780 Third Ave
Suite 2601
New York, NY 10017
Phone: (212) 688-6262
Fax: (212)
688-7444
|
Charles
DeVito Special Agent U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement
Telephone: (718)
553-1825, ext. 116
|
Megan M.
Buckley
Special Agent U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement Telephone:
(646) 230-3405 Fax (646) 230-3487
|
Although the USICE agents spoke with me 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 identity fraud and economic 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 the dust left behind. However,
when a foreign national commits a crime of identity fraud against a black American like me, the United States government barely
raises her disinterested head.
Terrorism does not always mean a threat against Jews. Terrorism can also be sustained acts of
economic abuse against a helpless individual – such as when a husband withholds his money from his wife and children
as a way to extort or coerce his wife’s silence. Senator Uzamere has done this to me and our daughter
for the past 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 the
child’s college tuition and books.
It is terrifying.
