From the southern tip of the African continent to the East Coast of the USA, and from the silence of Capitol Hill and the House Judiciary to the aggression of the US Embassy in Ireland, Scars and Stripes is a family's 20-year journey through the US Immigration System. From the flames of 9/11 to corrupt and incompetent immigration attorneys and a dysfunctional immigration system, a new American family is challenged by inconsistent immigration rulings and forced to self-deport to Ireland, where they become embroiled in a scandal involving US Ambassador Rooney, Visa Head Bradley Wilde and allegations of Irish passports being copied and supplied to Mossad hit-squads.|Some 10 million US visa applications are filed each year. 40 percent will get denied. Only 10 percent will get Permanent resident "Green-cards". Scars & Stripes records the 20-year journey of one family through the Immigration System, defying repeated denials, corrupt and incompetent immigration lawyers, and questionable conduct by the United States Citizenship & Immigration Service and Department of State, to become one of the 10 percent.