A story about immigration on last night’s edition of 60 Minutes on CBS featured a court case that cited definitions in Black’s Law Dictionary, published by West. The story was an update on a report from November 2008, based on some new developments that affect the policy of the possible deportation of foreigners whose American-citizen spouses had died.
You can watch “Immigrant Widows Left In Limbo” here.
At one point, in the screen shot below, correspondent Bob Simon held up a copy of Black’s Law Dictionary, to reference the definitions of the terms “Spouse” and “Surviving spouse.”
Here’s the transcript of the section of the report that mentions Black’s Law Dictionary:
While a foreign spouse can become a U.S. resident, Immigration argued in court that a widow is not a spouse, citing Black’s Law Dictionary, which defines spouse as “a married person.”
“That rules out widows,” said Immigration, “because a widow is no longer married.” But the federal court in Massachusetts rejected that argument because just a few lines down the same law dictionary defines a surviving spouse as one who outlives the other. So, the court said widows are spouses and are eligible to become U.S. residents.
The full CBS News transcript of “Immigrant Widows Left In Limbo” is here.
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