Suits for wrongful deportation by ICE rise

[AlphaCentauri]

Source: SFGate

Citizens who have been wrongfully locked up in immigration jails can't reclaim the months or years they spent behind bars, but some of them are seeking restitution and suing the U.S. government.
Hundreds of U.S. citizens have been detained and, in some cases, deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, The Chronicle revealed in a special report today. Legal experts say the numbers have grown as immigration detention has tripled over the past dozen years to 33,000 inmates at a time.

Cesar Ramirez Lopez, a San Pablo truck driver, won a $10,000 settlement in 2007 after he was held for four days by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents even after his lawyer convinced ICE investigators that he was a citizen.

"When ICE came and detained me, I told the officer I was a citizen," said Ramirez Lopez, 25. "They told me they didn't want to hear it, that I was going to get deported."

Others - detained for months or years and in some cases even deported - are suing for much more. Among them are:

-- Pedro Guzman, a mentally disabled man born and raised in Southern California, who was deported in 2007 to Mexico, where he survived by eating out of garbage cans for three months while his frantic mother searched for him.






Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/27/MNH618NPM6.DTL

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Let me see, let me see what all this US citizen have in common?

[EFerrari]

1. We called it from the first raid these thugs carried out.

Living while Latino. LWL

[AlphaCentauri]

2. probably one of the reasons president Obama mention latinos

when he was talking about Gates, we can say in this case that ICE acted "stupidly"