Do we Deport U.S. Citizens? Yes We Do.

Despite Citizenship Claims, Woman Shipped to Honduras.

The Daily Comet posted the article in this link - http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20090614/ARTICLES/906141011/1212?Title=Despite-citizenship-claims-woman-shipped-to-Honduras


It's strange and sad to think this could ever happen. It is another example of where our government should take extra care, and it simply does not. The same article quotes Jorge Baron, Executive Director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Seattle, who cites the sad fact that 90% of immigrants in detention facilities have no lawyer to assist them, and must face the government's claims alone.

The woman in the story was deported to Honduras, a country which may be lovely, but which she had never been to, ever, in her life. She was born in the United States.

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Here is my quote of the week -- Rachel Rosenbloom, from the Boston based Center for Human Rights and International Justice said, "There is something deeply wrong with a system that deports someone on the basis of a statement made under coercion without the presence of an attorney with no verification that it is true."

NO KIDDING.