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In reply to the discussion: A closing thought on the matter of the 14 year old deported to Colombia . . . [View all]Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)The safety valve is that most countries require a special travel document before receiving deportees and it is when a foreign county denies a prisoner is a citizen that the train comes off the track.
The government has tried repeatedly to deport a schizophrenic Arizona woman who claims to have been born in Paris and JFK is her father to France, she remained in immigration detention for months because France refused to issue an emergency travel document when there was no indication the woman had any conceivable claim to French citizenship. She previously claimed to have been born in Tehran and was ruled incompetent to stand trial in a drug and prostitution matter. Yet her claim to have been French when nothing else she had said was conceivably credible was sufficient for the immigration judge.