Mother claims her son, a US citizen, was deported

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Of all the problems with the immigration issue, one that no one pays much attention to is the far more pernicious provisions of these bills blocking judicial review and giving the executive branch unreviewable power (even Clinton signed on to this sort of stuff). This is what can happen when there is no way to present your case.

A mother seeks a son wrongly deported
Amid Tijuana's chaos, hunt under way for young, mentally disabled man
The Associated Press
Updated: 7:10 p.m. ET June 17, 2007
TIJUANA, Mexico - Clutching a photo of her son, Maria Carvajal walks Tijuana’s sweltering streets searching for the mentally disabled man she says was deported more than a month ago despite being a U.S. citizen and then disappeared in this chaotic border city.

Carvajal says she has searched hospitals, shelters and jails here looking for her 29-year-old son, Pedro Guzman of Lancaster, Calif., who was jailed for a misdemeanor trespassing violation, then sent to Mexico on May 11.

Guzman’s relatives sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department last week in federal court, claiming Guzman was a U.S. citizen and had been wrongfully deported and demanding that U.S. authorities help find him.

“I’m searching for him because he’s my son. But it should be (U.S. authorities) searching for him,” Carvajal, a 49-year-old fast-food restaurant worker from Lancaster, said Sunday in Tijuana. “They made the mistake. Not me.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19278902/

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1. Heartbreaking

I really fear for her mentally disabled son. I am going to guess that this woman's lawsuit goes nowhere though: the process by which they decide who is to be deported will be "too secret" to disclose in any court, especially as it concerns a poor Mexican/American. Case dismissed.