Thread: KC Woman Closer To Being Deported To Mexico

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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.

If she's been here that long....she should have made an effort to become a US citizen.

Since she's not even a U.S. citizen, why does she have access to the Supreme Court? If Saddam had made his way here, could he petition the Supreme Court too? I thought the U.S. Constitution was written for American citizens in America?

REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!

They should have sent her home, pregnant or not pregnant. Some jerk from LULAC or LaRaza probably helped her get pregnant so they would have another ace in the hole, so to speak.

If they start picking and choosing who might and who might not be allowed to stay, then they are going to just tie everything up in courts for years and years, wasting yet another upmpty-umpteen billion dollars of the taxpayers/ money.

An illegal alien is an illegal alein. So why can't they get that through their heads? Why can't they just quit fiddling around making one law to trump another. Is our government a game? Are our lawyers nothing but competitors in the game?

And, I agree, why did this person have any right to petition the Supreme Court-- which obviously isn't supreme enough to say Amerricans Only!

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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.
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She is Mexican, married to an American and has a baby declared American because he was born here. SHE KNEW SHE WAS HERE ILLEGALLY, SO WHY DIDNT SHE JUST GO HOME?!
She is just another # in the heap of illegal entrants. DEPORT!

If she is married to an American there is no excuse at all for her not to have citizenship. She wants to be a Mexican citizen and she is so send her home. The baby is an American by birth based on the premise that one parent is an American. If the father is stupid enough to let the mother take the kid out of the country, he deserves to lose his child.

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Posted on Sat, Feb. 18, 2006
Appeals court orders deportation of young mother
Associated Press

RAYMORE, Mo. - A young mother who is married to an American is hoping a miracle will halt her deportation to Mexico.

Myrna Dick, 31, was five months pregnant when a federal judge ruled in May 2004 that the government did not have grounds to deport her unborn child, saying he was a U.S. citizen and thereby entitled to legal protection.

That put the case on hold. But now the child, named Zachary, is 15 months old and Dick is again facing deportation.

On Wednesday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis gave immigration officials the OK to deport Dick and to permanently bar her from the United States. No date for the deportation was set.

"Miracles happen," said Dick, who was born in Mexico, but has lived in the United States most of her life. "Who knows - maybe God will touch someone's heart and they will let me stay."

Dick lives in an upscale Raymore subdivision with her husband Brady Dick, a voice engineer at Sprint. She is a community volunteer and Sunday School teacher.

But Carl Rusnok, the immigration and customs enforcement bureau spokesman, said she also is a criminal who has a "complete and total disregard for the laws of this country."

At the heart of the government's case is a 1998 border crossing Dick made in which she provided her fingerprints. During that crossing, the government claims she falsely claimed American citizenship - something Dick disputes. The violation carries a punishment of immediate and permanent deportation from the United States.

Dick was arrested in April 2004 after going to immigration officials to renew her work permit.

Rekha Sharma-Crawford, Dick's attorney, said an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court remained an option.

Dick and her husband, meanwhile, ponder their options. Neither want to move.

"I don't know what I would do down there (in Mexico) to support my family," said Brady Dick, 34.

One possibility is to move close to the border, perhaps to El Paso. But neither wants to live apart from the other, or from Zachary.

"He's been our little angel through all of this," Brady Dick said. "He needs us both."

Yeah, and I want to see Brady Dick find a job in El Paso that will pay the rent plus enough to pay his wife's rent in Juarez--or is she gonna live in one of those cardboard boxes? This is assanine! Why doesn't this jerk go be an illegal alien in Mexico?