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Myrna Dick Says She's Not A Threat

POSTED: 7:36 pm CST February 16, 2006
UPDATED: 7:59 pm CST February 16, 2006

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A metro-area woman is one step closer to being deported to Mexico, KMBC's Dan Weinbaum reported Thursday.

A high court this week refused to hear Myrna Dick's case allowing her to stay in the country.

Dick is a native of Mexico who has lived most of her life in the United States, and she is married to an American.

Dick's attorneys have argued that immigration has the wrong person.

"Why me? I'm not a threat for the country; I'm not a threat for the community. So my question is, why (did) they choose me?" Dick told KMBC.

Weinbaum reported that fate and the courts seemed to favor Dick for a while. While detained in 2004, hours before Dick was supposed to be sent to Mexico, she found out she was pregnant and was released by court order.

A U.S. Circuit Court judge ruled her unborn child was an American citizen, and allowed Dick to remain in the country until her child was born.

Her son, Zachary, is now 15 months old, and immigration still wants Dick deported.

"What's so frustrating about it is we have a lot of other problems in this country, and a lot of people that they need to worry about instead of Myrna," said Brady Dick, Myrna's husband.

Court papers show that Dick lost her petition to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, which means immigration can proceed with trying to send Dick to Mexico for good.

Immigration officials weren't available for comment Thursday.

Weinbaum reported that a few options remain for Dick: She can file a petition for another hearing before the appeals court and she can eventually petition the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her case.