Posted on 07/26/2019 7:03:44 AM PDT by SleeperCatcher
The Left’s outrage machine cranked up to maximum output again earlier this week when it was reported that the Border Patrol had kept an American citizen in detention for three weeks prior to releasing him.
But as is usually the case, there is much more to the story, and a USBP official provided those details during congressional testimony this week.
Brian Hastings, Chief of Law Enforcement at the U.S. Border Patrol, told a House committee that the reason why the citizen was kept in detention for so long was that he told agents he was Mexican.
Hastings’ claim came in response to a question from Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) about the detained U.S. citizen, Francisco Erwin Galicia, during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on some of the Trump administration’s policies on the border.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenationalsentinel.com ...
If he told them he was Mexican, perhaps it was because he wanted the benefits that accrue to claiming asylum as an illegal. /S
Exactly!
This is the advice they give for people juuuuust over the border in Nevada to say when applying to study at the University of California system:
Say you’re MEXICAN, you’re much more likely to get the low tuition, that way.
Wow! So someone could claim to be a Kenyan and possibly get preferred treatment and benefits from a university like maybe Colombia University?? That information would be on their college records woudn’t it?? They should be avalible through FOIA right?
Summarizing
He was apparently born in Dallas but his mother used a fake name for herself on his birth certificate. Later she applied for a travel visa for him in which she stated he was born in Mexico. On top of that the kid, although he’s lived in the US for 18 years spoke very little English and he was traveling with a group of illegal aliens.
Now he says he suing the US government.
So the kid wasn’t lying. He’s Mexican.
Just because of an accident of the geography of his birth doesn’t make him a citizen of the United States, or even Texas.
I and two of my NCO’s were held at the El Paso facility after picking us up in the Rio Grande frog gigging. Evidently, having American beer (Coors) on your person is not valid ID. Wives had to bring ID and spring us.
Not his fault.
Later she applied for a travel visa for him in which she stated he was born in Mexico.
Not his fault.
On top of that the kid, although he’s lived in the US for 18 years spoke very little English
His fault.
and he was traveling with a group of illegal aliens.
His fault.
Obviously his mother screwed up (TWICE!) But after that he should have tried to learn English and definitely should not have been traveling with or hanging out with illegal aliens.
Send him to Mexico because of his sheer stupidity.
not a countryman of mine... GTFO.
Sounds very likely he didn't know he was a citizen until some shyster immigration lawyer told him he was.
***that the reason why the citizen was kept in detention for so long was that he told agents he was Mexican. ***
I remember an incident sixty years ago of an Anglo American man who visited Mexico with my aunt and uncle. On the way back across the border to the USA, when asked his nationality, he got smart and said I am Japanese!
They held them at the border all day till they established he really was not Japanese but an American.
Why can’t they get the mother for fraud? Dallas paper has a sob story every single day about the illegals. This was a big front page story yesterday.
He calculated it as a win-win. He either gained the benefits of claiming asylum as an illegal or got standing to sue for being detained as an American citizen.
What needs to happen is denaturalization and deportation for attempting this scam.
OK...what is “frog gigging?”
On top of that the kid, although he’s lived in the US for 18 years spoke very little English
And he lived in a major U.S. city, never went to school and lived in a cave
You can't de-naturalize someone who has citizenship from birth.
If you are born an American citizen, then no power on Earth can take that from you, unless you surrender it yourself.
A local news station featured this story a couple days ago. He was interviewed and they used English subtitles because he was speaking Spanish. There's something flaky about his story.
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