Immigration officials detaining, deporting American citizens

[proud2BlibKansan]

FLORENCE, Ariz. — Thomas Warziniack was born in Minnesota and grew up in Georgia, but immigration authorities pronounced him an illegal immigrant from Russia.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has held Warziniack for weeks in an Arizona detention facility with the aim of deporting him to a country he's never seen. His jailers shrugged off Warziniack's claims that he was an American citizen, even though they could have retrieved his Minnesota birth certificate in minutes and even though a Colorado court had concluded that he was a U.S. citizen a year before it shipped him to Arizona.

On Thursday, Warziniack finally became a free man. Immigration officials released him after his family, who learned about his predicament from McClatchy, produced a birth certificate and after a U.S. senator demanded his release.

"The immigration agents told me they never make mistakes," Warziniack said in an earlier phone interview from jail. "All I know is that somebody dropped the ball."

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/25392.html

[juno jones]

1. I can only hope they send me back to europe.

I'd prefer Norway, but I'll take Ireland.

[fenriswolf]

3. I love brazil (avatar)

[juno jones]

6. I do too,

although the movie has, like Dr. Strangelove, gotten far more scary than funny for me. Both Gilliam and Kubrick were chillingly correct in their assesment of the state of humanity.


PS I love 'Hitchhiker's' as well. Not only do we think digital watches are a great idea, but apparently we can't live without i-pods either...

[MADem]

2. Baaaaastids!!!

I hope he SUES and becomes rich.

[SeattleGirl]

4. Can anyone put the brakes on these asshats????

Jeebus freakin' christ!

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[Zywiec]

5. Read the article..

After he was arrested in Colorado on a minor drug charge, Warziniack told probation officials there wild stories about being shot seven times, stabbed twice and bombed four times as a Russian army colonel in Afghanistan, according to court records. He also insisted that he swam ashore to America from a Soviet submarine..


He said he was RUSSIAN!!!!!!!!!!

[lurky]

7. If I tell the cops I'm Napoleon will they send me to France?

:shrug:

[AlphaCentauri]

8. "The immigration agents told me they never make mistakes,"

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. He is obviously suffering from some sort of mental illness

I find this very sad and also infuriating.

[EFerrari]

9. We called this months ago.

:grr:

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. I know. I remember.

I want my country back.