Thread: Wrongfully deported American home after 3 month fight

Wrongfully deported American home after 3 month fight

U.S. birth certificate wasn't enough to persuade border authorities

By Kari Huus
Reporter
msnbc.com
updated 1 hour 0 minutes ago

A Texas-born U.S. citizen who was detained, questioned and deported to Matamoros, Mexico, in the middle of the night has been allowed to re-enter the United States, ending a nearly three-month ordeal.

Luis Alberto Delgado, 19, was carrying his American birth certificate, Social Security card and Texas ID when he was pulled over in a routine traffic stop on June 17, according to Houston immigration lawyer Isaias Torres, who represented him in his legal battle for repatriation.

A South Texas sheriff’s deputy who apparently believed the documents were not authentic handed Delgado over to U.S. border agents. After eight hours of questioning, Torres said, Delgado felt pressured to sign a document agreeing to voluntary removal from the country and waiving his right to a lawyer. The Border Patrol then drove Delgado to Matamoros and left him, he said.

He was finally able to return home over the weekend, Torres said.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection service said it could not comment specifically on Delgado’s case. But in a statement it said, “When an individual requests and is granted a voluntary return, they sign a notice of rights where they are admitting to being in the U.S. illegally and give up their right to a hearing in Immigration Court.â€

Mistakes happen. I would not call it discrimination. There are people in our prison systems that are found to be innocent after serving many years behind bars. Maybe if we did not have the mess with these illegals and others that file frivolous lawsuits we would not have a clogged up system. It is not all the answers , but it a start.

Anchor kid..

This is why we need to recind birth right citizenship ...