Lifelong U.S. citizens were being deported under the Bush regime

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http://www.dailyherald.com/story/print/?id=286074

They were deported -- despite being lifelong U.S. citizens

Associated Press
Published: 4/13/2009 12:03 AM

WASHINGTON -- 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 (161 kilometers) 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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1. Better that a MILLION legal residents get DEPORTED than allow ONE "illegal" to REMAIN!!!

can we fit that on a tshirt?

I see an honorary appearance on Lou Dobbs comming for me!!!


















do I really need a "smilie" here?

[Hekate]

2. Thanks for the heartbreaking reminder of why I hate Bush so much

Bush and cronies should rot in Hell. Dear God I hope we can get our country back.

Hekate