Stupid and cruel. Woman, 38, ordered back to Mexico after lifetime in U.S. [View All]

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TACOMA, Wash. - A 38-year-old Omak woman who was taken from a Mexican orphanage as a baby and adopted by a U.S. family has been ordered back to Mexico after a judge ruled she never legally immigrated to the United States.

Tara Ammons Cohen, who has lived in the U.S. virtually her entire life and is married with three children, thought her mother had legally adopted her when she was a child and that she was an American citizen.

But an immigration judge ruled Thursday that she has no choice but to order Cohen deported back to Mexico, because her adoptive family never actually completed her immigration paperwork when she was a child.

Cohen says she has no family in Mexico, doesn't speak Spanish and is frightened at the prospect of facing life in a foreign country she knows little or nothing about.

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