Thread: Hundreds of deported immigrants with mental disabilities may return to US

LOS ANGELES – Hundreds of immigrants with mental disabilities who were deported from the U.S. after representing themselves in court may be allowed to return to the country under a settlement approved by a judge Friday.

Federal Judge Dolly M. Gee's ruling will let immigrants with serious mental disabilities request to have their cases reopened in hopes of returning to the U.S. The ruling covers immigrants deported from

California, Arizona and Washington between Nov. 21, 2011 and Jan. 27 this year.

"This is really a historic settlement," said Carmen Iguina, staff attorney for the ACLU of Southern California, one of the groups that filed the 2010 lawsuit that led to the settlement.

"We're really happy that our class members are going to be able to go back to their communities and families and follow up their cases here," Iguina said.

The government identified 900 immigrants who could benefit from the ruling, though there could be more and it's unclear how many would qualify to have their cases reopened, Iguina said.

Many of those affected are Latino, but she said there's no way to know exactly how many.

Under the agreement, the federal government said it will help those with reopened cases return to the U.S. and pay for some transportation costs.

The settlement comes after an April 2013 injunction that found immigrants with serious mental disabilities have a right to an attorney if they're found mentally incompetent to represent themselves.

An October 2014 order then required the federal government to establish screening procedures to determine immigrants' mental competencies. Those procedures took effect in January.

Hundreds of deported immigrants with mental disabilities may return to US | Fox News

Oh my God. What does their mental status have to do with an illegal presence in the United States? They weren't incarcerated, they were returned home, that's the right thing to do with any illegal alien.

"We're really happy that our class members are going to be able to go back to their communities and families and follow up their cases here," Iguina said.

"back to their families" ... they have families here? Why weren't they deported with them?

I shop at a Home Depot that is in the middle of a big Hispanic and illegal alien neighborhood. Sometimes you see rather unsavory characters walking around, that also appear to have mental problems. The recreational trail I use also connects to this area, so I have seen tattooed guys with attack dogs walking around. It's awful. I was also in the WalMart in the same area, buying a fixed amount debit card. There was a Hispanic guy ahead of me counting out thousands of dollars in $100 bills. I wonder what crime ring was he connected with? And then out on the Interstate they often will be driving aggressively in their rattle trap autos, or new fast ones they bought with money from somewhere. That is not to say that whites don't do these things. It's just that this gives us so many more to contend with and try to navigate around.

Obviously we are, like Trump says getting the worst. Probably the oppressed minorities plus those who would be misfits in their society and may have already burned their bridges because of bad acts they did down there. Old fashioned DESPERADOS, just now they can hop the freight train and get here in a few days.

We REALLY need DEMOCRAT members who are alarmed... or should be. The supposedly enlightened ones go into jubilation at any event or speech that would bolster their beloved "New Americans" agenda. But how many actual, working middle class people truly go for this?

GO TRUMP!! We need a kickbutt New Yorker!!

Who determined that they have mental disabilities? Before or after deportation? I despise incomplete reporting? Whose journalism school did this rock head attend?

The reporter is just telling what happened. The problem is with the America hating, activist Asian judge Dolly Gee.

We need to start putting out the personal information on these judges like personal phone number and such so we can personally let them know what we think about how they are unamerican

This traitors office phone number is 2138945452

Judge Dolly Gee was appointed by Obama. Following is another one of her decisions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/us...ling.html?_r=0