How broken is our immigration system? We deport citizens
*No one knows the number of U.S. citizens who are detained by immigration authorities. Neither is it known how many citizens are deported. VL
By Mary Sanchez, Kansas City Star
The deportation of Andres Robles Gonzalez was a bureaucratic nightmare at every turn.
The 25-year-old Louisianan spent nearly three years trapped in Mexico because the U.S. government wouldn’t recognize him for what he is — a U.S. citizen.
[pullquote]Incompetent attorneys who initially represented Robles in immigration proceedings were of no help to him.[/pullquote]Not only was Robles wrongly sent packing across the southern border, but he was blocked in his attempts to rectify his situation because the government kept reverting back to the initial mistake.
He’s not the only U.S. citizen who has been deported.
Some advocates suspect that thousands of others have been deported in the last decade, including mentally and physically ill citizens.
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