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(CNN) — Eleven-year-old Ewelina Bledniak was looking at a year split from her parents, split from her friends, away from everything she loves about living in America.

Ewelina Bledniak hopes to stay in the United States with her parents, Hubert and Agnieszka.

The federal government was ready to deport Ewelina to her native Poland because when she was 3 years old, the family missed a deadline to file a key immigration document.

“I love going to school here, and my friends, I’m going to miss them,” Ewelina said as she worried about being deported. “I like living here.”

But things are looking up. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney last week asked the U.S. Immigration Court in Atlanta, Georgia, to reopen Ewelina’s case and terminate the deportation proceeding ICE had initiated. The motion asks the court to send the case back to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for resolution.

“They seem to be willing to find a favorable solution to this matter,” said Ewelina’s attorney, Maria Odom of Atlanta. “… It’s good news for the child, absolutely.” Watch family, attorney discuss girl’s immigration battle »

It was the first good news the Cumming, Georgia, family had received in a while.

Her father, Hubert, came to the United States legally and is a naturalized U.S. citizen; and her mother, Agnieszka (Agnes), also arrived legally and is a legal resident. Ewelina is neither.

Under a temporary amnesty program at the turn of the 21st century, illegal immigrants could seek legal status without returning to their home countries. However, a previous l

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — He’s a key Iranian politician whose name is on the lips of opponents, supporters and experts alike in the bloody aftermath of the Iran’s presidential elections.

But despite the chaos that’s plagued the Islamic Republic for the past two weeks — even resulting in the brief detention of his daughter — former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has remained silent and largely unseen.

The last time the world saw Iran’s assembled leadership was June 19, when Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei endorsed the victory of hard-line incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the hotly contested June 12 election at Friday prayers. But Rafsanjani was missing among the group of Islamic power brokers.

“Ayatollah Rafsanjani is the second-most powerful man in Iran — up until now certainly — has always been in opposition to Ahmadinejad,” Hooman Majd, an Iranian-American author, told CNN Saturday. “He opposed him in the presidential race in 2005 and has been relatively opposed to him publicly and very opposed to him privately in his policies.”

Majd said Rafsanjani is a very influential figure in Khamenei’s circle, but he’s made “a real break with the supreme leader in this case.” Watch why ex-leader Rafsanjani remains relevant in politics »

Whether the leadership will regroup to resolve the situation internally rather than air out the laundry publicly “is an open question,” Majd said.

Rafsanjani, who supported Mir Hossein Moussavi — a reformist and chief rival to hard-line incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — is chairman of the Assembly of Experts, which is responsible for appointing or removing the supreme leader.

There were widespread rumors that Rafsanjani has been in the Iranian city of Qom trying to rally a coalition of clerics and political figures against Khamenei, who fully supports Ahmadinejad.

During televised debates leading up to the election, Ahmadinejad publicly accused Rafsanjani of corruption as the unprecedented drama over the presidential race continued to grip voters.

For his part, Rafsanjani said Ahmadinejad’s “baseless and irresponsible” statements brought back “bitter memories” of anti-revolutionary groups in the aftermath of Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution.

Source : Cnn.com

The Reverend Jesse Jackson said on Saturday that Michael Jackson’s family wants an independent autopsy following the pop star’s sudden death at age 50.

Jesse Jackson, a civil rights leader, said after a Chicago press conference on Saturday that there are unanswered questions surrounding the King of Pop’s death, including about the role of the personal cardiologist who was with him.

Dr Conrad Murray reportedly was with Jackson when he stopped breathing on Thursday and performed CPR until paramedics arrived.

An ambulance crew worked on Jackson at his home for 42 minutes before rushing him to UCLA Medical Centre, where he was pronounced dead.
The cardiologist has hired a Houston-based law firm and on Saturday, an attorney there said he was cooperating.

A 911 call from Jackson’s rented home reported that his personal doctor was trying to revive him without success. Police have talked to Dr Conrad Murray and have said they intend to speak with him again but have stressed he is not a criminal suspect.

Murray has yet to speak publicly since Jackson’s death.
Jesse Jackson told reporters in Chicago that the “bizarre behaviour” of Murray needed explaining.

“Why did the doctor not communicate with the parents, nor with the coroner, and could not be found? It raised questions that deserve answers, and we want those answers because we are hurt.”

People close to Jackson have said since his death that they were concerned about the superstar’s use of painkillers.

Los Angeles County medical examiners completed an autopsy on Friday and said Jackson had taken prescription medication.

Medical officials also said there was no indication of trauma or foul play. An official cause of death could take weeks.

The coroner’s office released the body to Jackson’s family on Friday night.
There was no immediate word on whether the second autopsy was being performed right away.

There was also no word from the Jackson family on funeral plans.

Many of Jackson’s relatives have gathered at the family’s Encino compound, caring there for Jackson’s three children.

Source : Movies.ndtv

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