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Diane Williams is an American citizen, who is Caucasion and American Indian. In January, she was deported to Honduras.
Quotes from the article:
…Immigration-rights advocates say thousands of people with credible claims to U.S. citizenship are detained every year by an overloaded immigration-enforcement system, in part because of pressures on agents to show results in numbers of deportations and a lack of adequate civil-rights protections…
…”There is something deeply wrong with a system that deports someone on the basis of a statement made under coercion without the presence of an attorney with no verification that it is true,” [attorney Rachel] Rosenbloom said. “Our tax dollars are not meant to be spent deporting someone who’s a U.S. citizen.”…
Article at: The Daily Comet
More information on immigration advocacy and legislation at: LI WINS
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