More American citizens wrongly deported


	More American citizens wrongly deported

Lexica

8-7-2009 4:11 PM

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immigration, deportation, jackbootery, xenophobia

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8-8-2009 2:41 PM

wes50

yeah, this stuff is scary.

8-8-2009 4:20 PM

gzuckier

“I had a copy of my birth certificate, but they said they didn’t know if it was real or not,” she said.

hmm... that sounds familiar somehow.

why do we even bother keeping birth certificates, if people are going to ignore them when presented as evidence?

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