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He refused.”Why should I do that when I’m already in a relationship with an American? For all intents and purposes, we are married,” Lago said.While marrying an American doesn’t protect against deportation, it often helps people trying to secure U.S residency. But the United States doesn’t recognise Lago’s 12-year relationship with Charles “Chip” Snell.Lago was cited in November after revealing to a U.S. Border Patrol agent at a highway checkpoint that he wasn’t carrying his British passport and didn’t have U.S residency. He said he had passed checkpoints countless times before, without problems.He faces a deportation hearing March 13.”I think it’s a foregone conclusion I’m going to have to leave The law is very cut and dry. There is really no defence.” He added.Lago, 40, claims he didn’t realise he was in the United States illegally after overstaying his tourist visa, which was issued in 1992.

He and Snell once owned a coffee shop and bookstore in Palm Springs and are active in the theatre communities of Los Angeles and San Diego.He said it was unlikely he’d appear at his hearing. Under federal law, Lago has 120 days to leave the country and wouldn’t be allowed back into the United States for 10 years if he is deported.”To me, it’s ironic that America would pride itself as a free and democratic society but it certainly isn’t for gay people,” he said.. Stung by accusations of racial stereotyping in last year’s movie The Phantom Menace, George Lucas has promised to inject a healthy dose of political correctness into the next instalment of his Star Wars series. Stung by accusations of racial stereotyping in last year’s movie The Phantom Menace, George Lucas has promised to inject a healthy dose of political correctness into the next instalment of his Star Wars series.
Rather than keeping the human cast all white and bestowing “foreign” characteristics on the line-up of aliens and monsters, Mr Lucas now intends to introduce a Native American character with a forceful, spiritual nature, an Indian or Hispanic character and an Asian character.The director-producer’s script for Episode II – actually the fifth in the series – is far from finished, but his spokeswoman Lynne Hale said his casting director had already begun contacting talent agencies to find suitable actors for the new roles.The Phantom Menace, which generally disappointed critics and many Star Wars fans but still took several hundred million dollars at the box-office, came under fire for its noseless villains speaking in “Yellow Peril”-style accents, its depiction of a filthy giant insect with Greek or Arabic inflections and – especially – the computer-generated character Jar Jar Binks, who acted like an idiot and spoke a mock Caribbean patois.A grassroots campaign began shortly after the US release of the film last May, demanding that Jar Jar be booted out of the series, partly because of racial stereotyping but also because his screen presence was consistently irritating One website even called itself jarjarmustdie Ms Hale, however, said the plan was for Jar Jar to stay..

After 14 months of soaring approval rates, when he could not put a foot wrong, Venezuela’s President, Hugo Chavez, may be turning out to have feet of clay. Three former comrades in arms – allies from his failed coup of eight years ago – have accused his government of corruption and betrayal of the principles that it espoused when it came to power. After 14 months of soaring approval rates, when he could not put a foot wrong, Venezuela’s President, Hugo Chavez, may be turning out to have feet of clay. Three former comrades in arms – allies from his failed coup of eight years ago – have accused his government of corruption and betrayal of the principles that it espoused when it came to power.
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Francisco Arias Cardenas, considered the brains behind the 1992 coup, said on Monday that Mr Chavez’s Fifth Republic Movement was betraying its radical origins. “An organisation that doesn’t allow contrary opinions, that doesn’t debate, that doesn’t discuss, in my opinion doesn’t exist,” Mr Arias, who now governs the petroleum-rich Zulia state, said.Retired Lt Col Jesus Urdaneta urged Mr Chavez, 45, to sack his political mentor, Luis Miquilena, who heads the new mini-Congress, along with the Foreign Minister, Jose Vicente Rangel, and the cabinet minister Ignacio Arcaya. He charged that they were all left from the old regime that the former soldiers wanted to destroy.The two men – with Joel Acosta Chirinos, the third former commando officer – have threatened to divulge a complete list of corrupt pro-Chavez politicians unless the President launches an investigation.However, there has been a backlash of criticism against the trio in the state media, and the government appears anxious that the discontent should not spread through the military, from which Mr Chavez draws heavy support.