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When officials questioned Galicia, he told them he was born in Dallas. He also produced a Texas ID, a Social Security card and a copy of a wallet-sized birth certificate.
She explained confusion over Galicia's nationality stemmed from a tourist visa issued when he was a child and the fact that his mother used an assumed name on Francisco's birth certificate.
"After he was born, they went back to Mexico and she couldn't fix the birth certificate," Galan said. So, in order to travel back and forth as a family, she obtained a tourist visa for her U.S.-born son, claiming he had been born in Mexico.
Is it now possible to graduate from a US HS without being able to speak (read or write?) English? If so, then it is no wonder that many employers are demanding that applicants have a college education.
U.S. Citizen Detained For Weeks, Nearly Deported By Immigration Officials
At least he gave us a description of what it's really like inside the detention centers, and it's quite different from Trump's description.
Good for him.
I know a young lady, about 13 years old, from very rural SE Asia whose parents both died of malaria last year. She's now in Canada, attending school, learning English and French.
Big takeaway is his description of the conditions inside the detention center.
Big takeaway is his description of the conditions inside the detention center.
He described having access to a toilet, a bed, and three meals a day. I don’t get the issue.
How did the initial reporting miss:
1. The proof of his birth certificate he provided turned out to be fake - false mother's name.
2. His mother had previously sworn on his travel VISA that he was born in Mexico.
That, added to he doesn't really speak English (also left out) explains why he was held for 30 days. It is very hard for law enforcement to clear someone when the person - and the person's own mother - lied including her under written oath.
That is the irony. HE and HIS MOTHER provided documentation proving he was born in Mexico to border patrol and prior to this to the USA and Mexican government. It took ICE investigating to learn they were lying.
Rather than tragic, it is humorous. Obviously his mother lied to get around Mexican travel laws to get him into Mexico. Overall, he was living his life on fraudulent documents about himself and his place of birth. And it was those exact same clever documents to trick the Mexican government on admission to Mexico that got him locked up in the USA as a Mexican.
If your mother swears out an written oath officially to both the American and Mexican government you were born in Mexico - and your defense document is a tiny reproduction of a birth certificate with a false name for the mother? Yeah, that could get a person detained by ICE.
I think the phrase is "Karma can be a bitch."
He described having access to a toilet, a bed, and three meals a day. I don’t get the issue.
I guess he shouldn't have shown the copy of his birth certificate and only his TX ID and SS card.
Well, to be fair, his brother, who was with him, was there illegally, and not one of them spoke English.
Kid was a teenager, claiming he was born and raised (educated) in Texas. But can't speak English.
If that doesn't cause your spider senses to tingle, then I dare say you'd be a crappy cop.
Blame momma, she used an “assumed name” on his birth certificate (“confusion” or flat out fraud?) and put on a tourist visa he was born in Mexico.
Interesting what you find out when you actually read the whole article.
"three meals a day"
I guess he lost 26 lbs. by refusing to eat.
Well if the democrats want illegals put in the holiday inn they should fund the holiday inn. Don’t moralize to me, you don’t want illegals detained at all. Your side could pass appropriations today.No showers, shoved into an over crowded facility with 60 other dudes, also with no showers, and the 3 meals were a single small sandwich, resulting in him losing 20 pounds.
We treat our actual, bona fide, convicted criminals better.
Clearly Trump thinks the real conditions energize much of his base, so he has a vested interest in seeing they don't change.
I doubt Galicia ever learns English. There's nobody in his hood who'll understand him.
He described having access to a toilet, a bed, and three meals a day. I don’t get the issue.
I lost 26 pounds over the course of two months a little while ago. Feel pretty good. Most Americans could stand to lose a bit
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