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Deporting US citizens

Dozens, perhaps hundreds of US citizens have been deported accidentally because immigration officials at county jails disbelieved their claims of citizenship and thought they were illegal immigrants, according to AP:Pedro Guzman has been an American citizen all his life. Yet in 2007, the 31-year-old who is mentally ill and not able to read or write ? while in jail for a misdemeanor violation ? signed a waiver agreeing to leave the country without a hearing. The Los Angeles native was deported to Mexico as an illegal immigrant. For almost three months, Guzman slept in the streets, bathed in filthy rivers and ate out of trash cans while his mother scoured Tijuana, its hospitals and morgues, clutching his photo in her hand. He was finally found trying to cross the border at Calexico...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 13, 2009 (boomark / email).