I know a lady who first fled her country to another country for a better life and then staged a marriage with an American citizen to come and stay in the USA. She described it as a “business deal”. According to her that marriage was never consummated. Later she became a US citizen and brought rest of her family to this country. Recently she has become an anti-immigration and anti-refugee Facebook activists. Actually, I have seen a few of them, so they do not really surprise me anymore…
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