[Scotsman will be Free]

I have had a number of dealings with the INS, and they have all been negative, and I'm a flippin native born american! Not only are they all of the things you have described, but they are arrogant, and ignore their own rules. Fortunately, with the assistance of my liberal democrat congressman, the INS has had to eat crow in each of my dealings with them. I have one more issue to resolve with them, and I fully hope that I will succeed, and then I will be finished with those swine.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

I have had a number of dealings with the INS, and they have all been negative

Well, I know it's part of the Department of State, not the the INS, but I had a pretty negative experience with the U.S. Consular Office in Sydney, Australia. My Australian girlfriend sent away for her visa, and weeks went by, with no word. I finally called them up and it turned out they had just been sitting on the application, claiming that they contacted her (they had not). I ended up screaming at the insolent little twerp woman, who got indignant when I told her that she worked for me, seeing as how I paid Federal taxes. And then she refused to give me her name so I could complain to her boss. That's outrageous.

Anyway, my girlfriend got her visa literally three hours before her flight left for the U.S. And only because both of us scrambled like hell to fix what they screwed up.

So unfortunately, this deportation story doesn't really surprise me.