Posted on 04/12/2009 1:39:55 PM PDT by Chet 99
Pedro Guzman has been an American citizen all his life. Yet in 2007, the 31-year-old Los Angeles native — in jail for a misdemeanor, mentally ill and never able to read or write — signed a waiver agreeing to leave the country without a hearing and 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 the city of Tijuana, its hospitals and morgues, clutching his photo in her hand. He was finally found trying to cross the border at Calexico, 100 miles away.
These days, back home in California, "He just changes from one second to another. His brain jumps back to when he was missing," said his brother, Michael Guzman. "We just talk to him and reassure him that everything is fine and nobody is going to hurt him."
In a drive to crack down on illegal immigrants, the United States has locked up or thrown out dozens, probably many more, of its own citizens over the past eight years. A monthslong AP investigation has documented 55 such cases, on the basis of interviews, lawsuits and documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. These citizens are detained for anything from a day to five years. Immigration lawyers say there are actually hundreds of such cases.
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What’s racist or what borders on racism is blanket condemnation of all Hispanics, which I see from time to time here on FR.
Okay, but what’s to be done? What if one of these people has kids or grandkids here, when does the illegitimacy of citizenship end? What if their offspring’s parentage includes bona fide citizens?
I don’t think solving the illegal immigration problem is going to be easy, and people calling for wholesale deportation of millions of people are asking for what is politically impossible due to special interests and so forth. Because they won’t bend, they will break, and the path-to-citizenship, votings rights, and welfare state crowd will simply get their way.
That's odd. From my experience this site does not tolerate racist comments or remarks.
And my experience here is about 9 years longer than yours.
No wonder BOR pegs freerepublic as a hate site.
The illegals are invited here by the docs, and lawyers, and upstanding businessmen who need them to babysit, and clean their homes, and pick their veggies. I see only outrage at them and no outrage at the Americans who hire them.
Vote for Pedro
That's odd. I've seen tens of thousands of posts from people doing exactly that, including myself. Of course my experience here extends about 8 years longer than yours.
evidently your experience falls on deaf ears.
My problem with your response is that you accept failure. Accepting that a “few legitimate people” getting thrown out of the country is problematic.
When we start justifying innocents being punished in order to get the collective, we turn towards fascism.
How many is a “few”? What if those “few” just happen to all vote Republican? What if those “few” all happen to support someone we want in office, like Duncan Hunter? You forget who is in charge of these government organizations now. Do you really trust the government?
That's odd. I've seen tens of thousands of posts from people doing exactly that, including myself. Of course my experience here extends about 8 years longer than yours.
evidently your experience falls on deaf ears.
We'll, my experience goes beyond just talking and making frivolous statements, like you are now.
Look, if you've got *millions* entering illegally, with the government in chaos, that can't even balance a simple budget, or control it's own stinking borders, what makes you think our system of deporting some of these millions is going to run smoothly, and no innocents are going to get caught up in this monstrous mess?
Just like there are a few people in the joint, that are totally innocent. It's sucks bad, but it's bound to occur because nothing is perfect.
LOL!
I didn't forget it's the same people and government insiders controlling this puppet in chief, as the last puppet in chief.
Do I trust government?
What a knee slapper!
Did you just stumble in here?
I understand that. However, the point of the article is that we should not be deporting anybody.
Sob Story...Ping!
Oh yes you can. This man should have been adjudicated incompetent.
There should be substantial damages awarded to a citizen who has this happen. Especially if said citizen was an incompetent.
Maybe his family tried.
How many are court manufactured ersatz citizens having been anchor babies?
Ummmm, it doesn’t seem like it takes a tortured reading of the 14th amendment to get to anchor babies. Clearly the law enacted by amendment to the constitution allows for it. It isn’t a penumbra.
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