Another sob story.

Immigrant: Judge told me to go home


Joy Kimbrough/The Daily Times
Anna Calixto was in Judge W. Dale Young’s courtroom Friday morning seeking an order of protection from her estranged husband.


By Rick Laney
© The Daily Times 2007


Anna Calixto went to court Friday seeking an order of protection from her husband, Fernando Calixto. Instead, she was told to go back to her native country of Nicaragua by Blount County Circuit Court Judge W. Dale Young, according to witnesses.

Anna Calixto and witnesses said the judge asked Fernando Calixto — who came to the United States from Mexico — if he was in the United States legally. The judge told him if he wasn’t here legally, he had “no rights in court.â€