The son of a decorated Vietnam veteran, Hector Veloz is a U.S. citizen, but in 2007 immigration officials mistook him for an illegal immigrant and locked him in an Arizona prison for 13 months.posted by kipmanley at 7:38 PM on May 28, 2010 [64 favorites]
Veloz had to prove his citizenship from behind bars. An aunt helped him track down his father’s birth certificate and his own, his parents’ marriage certificate, his father’s school, military and Social Security records.
After nine months, a judge determined that he was a citizen, but immigration authorities appealed the decision. He was detained for five more months before he found legal help and a judge ordered his case dropped.[...]
Jacqueline Stevens, A UC Santa Barbara professor of law and society, said she had identified 160 cases of people who had been detained or deported but whose U.S. citizenship was later affirmed by the federal government or a jury. And several immigrant legal aid groups have helped free dozens of other citizens in recent years. [...]
Cesar Ramirez Lopez, a San Pablo truck driver, won a $10,000 settlement in 2007 after he was held for four days by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents even after his lawyer convinced ICE investigators that he was a citizen.
Pedro Guzman, a mentally disabled man born and raised in Southern California, who was deported in 2007 to Mexico, where he survived by eating out of garbage cans for three months while his frantic mother searched for him.
Rennison Castillo, a Washington state man who was born in Belize but took his oath of citizenship while serving in the U.S. Army in 1998, who spent seven months in an ICE prison in 2006.
!important is outside the border property illegally. It needs to emigrate in.guess that you're not Hispanic, and have no Hispanic friendsPretty much the definition of an ad hominem argument, there.
I think nearly deported is overstating it a bit. I think this sort of thing sucks, but it's not like he was being brought to the airport. He was arrested. He posted bail. His citizenship was questioned. He produced documents that said he was a citizen and he was let go.He wasn't let go for 3 days after he "produced documents". And do you think every American is capable of producing documents on demand? His mom happened to have a copy of his birth certificate, but what if she hadn't been around? Or was back in Puerto Rico? Normally you have to fly all the way down and show up in person to get your certificate.
Wait, Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens? Next you'll be telling me that St. Reagan was wrong about the Indians!Hey, Lou Dobbs was complaining about the Puerto Rico day parade in NY. Saying we shouldn't have any "foreign holidays" Apparently unaware of the fact there was nothing "foreign" about P.R.
Yet when it comes to coverage of global warming, we are trapped in the logic of a guerrilla insurgency. The climate scientists have to be right 100 per cent of the time, or their 0.01 per cent error becomes Glaciergate, and they are frauds. By contrast, the deniers only have to be right 0.01 per cent of the time for their narrative—See! The global warming story is falling apart!—to be reinforced by the media. It doesn't matter that their alternative theories are based on demonstrably false claims.—Which is why I tend to dismiss contrarians and Fiskers no matter the political persuasion; it's just so goddamn easy. The original diss of an admittedly weak FPP doesn't come off as hey, you know, you could fix this anecdatal post about our hideously unfair and systemically up-fucked immigration issues thusly; it comes off as why should any of us give a shit? It's also, y'know, wrong on the facts of the matter, but hey. —So long as we're concerned about semantics, and how one's tone affects one's framing, or whatnot.
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