{"id":240,"date":"2009-04-12T09:42:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T16:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malcs.net\/blog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2009-04-12T09:42:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T16:42:48","slug":"ap-citizens-held-as-illegal-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2009\/04\/12\/ap-citizens-held-as-illegal-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"AP: Citizens held as illegal immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pedro Guzman has been an American citizen all his life. Yet in 2007, the 31-year-old Los Angeles native \u00e2\u20ac\u201d in jail for a misdemeanor, mentally ill and never able to read or write \u00e2\u20ac\u201d signed a waiver agreeing to leave the country without a hearing and was deported to Mexico as an illegal immigrant.<\/p>\n

…..In a drive to crack down on illegal immigrants, the United States has locked up or thrown out dozens, probably many more, of its own citizens over the past eight years. A monthslong AP investigation has documented 55 such cases, on the basis of interviews, lawsuits and documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. These citizens are detained for anything from a day to five years. Immigration lawyers say there are actually hundreds of such cases.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Full story at Yahoo News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pedro Guzman has been an American citizen all his life. Yet in 2007, the 31-year-old Los Angeles native \u00e2\u20ac\u201d in jail for a misdemeanor, mentally ill and never able to read or write \u00e2\u20ac\u201d signed a waiver agreeing to leave the country without a hearing and was deported to Mexico as an illegal immigrant. …..In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general-news","7":"entry","8":"override"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56,"url":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2006\/11\/04\/speechless\/","url_meta":{"origin":240,"position":0},"title":"Speechless…","author":"la Webjefa","date":"November 4, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Medicaid Wants Citizenship Proof for Infant Care Under a new federal policy, children born in the United States to illegal immigrants with low incomes will no longer be automatically entitled to health insurance through Medicaid, Bush administration officials said Thursday. 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