Posted on 03/23/2015 5:22:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Carlos Montoya's birth certificate shows he was born in Los Angeles in 1977. But when he tried to come back to the U.S. from Mexico on March 1, he says border agents deported him. "I showed them everything," he said, admitting he struggles with English. "And they took everything away from me." Lawsuit: LA Teacher Used N-Word, Racist Stereotypes Montoya, who showed his birth certificate to NBC4, says he spent the last year in Mexico undergoing treatment for epilepsy but had been traveling back and forth to Mexico for treatment every six months before then. He says he always carried his birth certificate, social security card, and California ID card with him and had no problems. But he says when he scanned his fingerprints this time, something very different came up on the border patrol’s screen. Southern California Images in the News[LA GALLERY UPDATED 3-22] Southern California Images in the News Attorney Luis Carrillo who now represents Montoya, explained. "What pops up on the screen is a photo of another individual and they turn the screen and they show him," Carillo said. "And Carlos says, 'That’s an impostor, ‘yo soy Carlos Montoya,’ and they say, 'No, you’re the impostor.' And he says, 'No, I’m Carlos Montoya." Home Computer Accessory Vulnerable to Hackers The Chief Customs and Border Patrol Office and Public Affairs Liaison in San Diego, Angelica De Cima provided this statement to NBC4: “While we are not at liberty to discuss an individual’s processing due to the Privacy Act, we can provide general information about document requirements for U.S. citizens. As part of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), U.S. citizens entering the United States at sea or land ports of entry have been required to present a WHTI-compliant document such as a valid passport, U.S. passport card, Trusted Traveler Program card or an Enhanced Driver’s License since June 2009. For more information about documents required to enter the U.S. please click on (this) link."
Montoya couldn’t provide anything else, admitting he did not have a passport, so he said after a four-hour interrogation and two nights in a jail cell, he felt forced to do whatever the border agent told him.
He claims he was coerced to come up with a fake name — he says he chose Jose Francisco Garcia-Garcia — and to sign the paperwork that would deport him back to Mexico. Among the questions he says he was forced to answer falsely — that he was born in Mexico and that he had never been to the United States.
Carrillo is asking the U.S. Inspector General to investigate the case, claiming coercion, incompetence and even corruption. All the while, Montoya remains in Nayarit, Mexico, hoping to come back home to Compton, California.
So why is a US citizen going to Mexico for treatment of epilepsy? I can’t imagine the Mexican government is going to be paying for the treatment, and I can’t imagine their medical system is better than ours for treating conditions like that.
My BS meter hit “Man the Lifeboats” when reading this.
My friend’s great aunt was born in San Francisco, and live to be about 90. She only spoke Italian. Nice lady.
He says he was born in the US, I can’t see where he claims to have been raised here.
Were his parents legally in the U.S. when he was born? If not, he is an anchor baby and is not a U.S. citizen.
So, if he’s an American citizen, why didn’t he invest in a USA Passport?
I don’t know the price now. I think I paid $65 about five years ago to renew mine.
I also have an Enhanced Drivers License with a microchip.
I think that cost an extra $25.
I can get into and out of Canada with just the EDL.
I think the EDL is good for Mexico, too, but I’ve never been to Mexico.
And I have to have a passport but because he’s Mexican he thinks he doesn’t need one.
I thought a passport was required for travel to and from Mexico nowadays. I now years ago my employer wanted some of to go and work on a church mission in Mexico but I didn’t have a passport so he told me I couldn’t go. I was happy as a pig in shit not to go to Mexico again!
I checked the price on a new Passport.
$110 for a “passport book.”
$30 for a “passport card.”
Not sure I know what a “passport card” is.
Maybe the precursor of the Enhanced Drivers License?
Anchor baby. Classic.
This is why so-called birthright citizenship is national suicide. Born here or not, he’s not an American, and he absolutely should be deported.
you need a passport. not a birth certificate.
Was he deported for being a Mexican or a Republican? With this administration you can never tell.
I could understand this guy not speaking English if he was born here 75 to 90 years ago. Education requirements were much different during the depression. But 38 yrs ago access to schools and education requirements were much different. Plus, even if his parents are here illegally, since he was born here he had a social security number and the ability to get a drivers license or some other type of free Government ID. How is he getting his benefits? This just doesn’t pass the smell test.
The passport card is a nicety extended to border state residents. They were accustomed to passing over the border unmolested. When the 9/11 response kicked in, the cards were offered as a cheaper option than a full blown passport. It only gets you back into the US from Canada and perhaps Mexico. I never bought one so I’m not sure. When I return from Canada, they just add me to the non-compliant list and pass me in.
No fargin way.
He must have voted Republican.
That’s right.
On of the so-called `Reconstruction amendments: the 13th, 14th and 15th, they were passed in the years following the Rebellion/Civil War/War of Northern Aggression to protect the civil rights of former slaves.
They were never intended to serve as an `All-y all-y in come free!’ for our `Cousin Eddie’ neighbors to the south, vis a vis their anchor children, chain immigration: parents, abuelos, aunts, tios, grandmas, nephews, shirt-tail relatives and family friends.
During `Operation Wetback’—when we had a southwestern border—I’m sure Eisenhower’s border patrol were instructed to tell “guests” who had worn out their welcomes:
“You’re going back home and you’re taking your kids with you, unless you want them adopted out ... Decide now.
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Even here we see daily some sad sack of chit posting: “We can’t deport them all. Let’s be realistic, gosh, we’ll just have to raise the white flag, give up, surrender ... sigh.”
I’m sick of their puling and whining about “Let’s look for a fight we can win,” and “let’s not joist at windmills!”
Miserable excuses for Americans, much less conservatives. If the WWII generation was the “greatest,” ours must be saddled with some of the worst, visitors from the DUmp, I suppose.
Born in East L.A.
and Cheech got the runs in Mexico ,Chong didn’t ,LOL
That was Up In Smoke.
It’s persona non grata treatment. It happens and sometimes they just threaten you with it for ‘other’ reasons.
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