women's rights group, claiming Immigration laws are discriminatory and fly in the face of the Human Rights Act.

Mrs. Pat Gordon Pamplin, sister of Government Sen. Pam Gordon, may have to leave the Country she was born and raised in if Government follows through with threats to kick her non-Bermudian husband off the Island.

But she yesterday vowed to fight to the end and take her case to court if necessary.

Bermuda's Immigration laws offered wives of Bermudian men more protection than husbands of Bermudian women, she claimed.

The Immigration Department has given her American husband Mr. Dennis Pamplin until the end of the week to pack his bags and leave Bermuda.

Though he had a good job in the construction industry, the Immigration Department was refusing to renew his work permit because of representations by his Bermudian ex-wife and mother of his two children, Mrs. Godon Pamplin claimed.

Mrs. Gordon Pamplin said her lawyer, Sen. Wendell Hollis, has already taken legal action.

Labour and Home Affairs Minister the Hon. J. Irving Pearman confirmed Mr.

Pamplin had been asked to leave Bermuda by tomorrow.

But he said it had "nothing at all'' to do with a work permit renewal. He declined to comment any further because the matter could wind up in court.

He added Mr. Pamplin was asked to leave more than a year ago.

Mrs. Gordon Pamplin charged that under current Immigration law, if the situation was reversed and a foreign-born wife of a Bermudian man was facing the same situation, she could not be made to leave Bermuda for any reason.

She said her husband had applied for a renewal a year ago and it was rejected, but they had not been married at the time.

When they married in May, he reapplied, but they were told in July that the case was closed, she said.

Mrs. Gordon Pamplin announced the formation of the Alliance for the Protection of Rights of Bermudian Women at last weekend's Labour Day speeches at Bernard Park.

The group, planning a major membership campaign, would fight to change Immigration laws and also for equality for Bermudian women in the workplace.

"We hear the Premier promise to leave no stone unturned until the ills of discrimination have been eradicated in every aspect of our society, yet he and his Cabinet have just voted to expel me and my Bermudian child from my Country because they refused to grant a work permit to my foreign-born husband,'' she said.

"The same Government policy protects foreign women from expulsion from the same country for any reason, but does not protect its own.''