More people are becoming aware of the massive injustices increasingly faced by undocumented immigrants. But now it turns out that even legal immigrants are being deported based on next-to-nothing.<\/p>\n
From Asian-Nation<\/a>:<\/p>\n As the New York Times reports, many legal immigrants are being caught in a web of technicalities, bureaucracy, and injustice and in fact, end up fighting orders from the Immigration Control and Enforcement<\/a> (ICE, the successor to the INS) to be deported back to their sending country, even though they came to the U.S. legally […]<\/p>\n The article includes many examples of how the ICE has used various bureaucratic items to order legal immigrants to be deported: a discrepancy regarding marriage status from 25 years ago, a 10-year old misdemeanor conviction that was wiped from one\u2019s record, green card holders mistakenly voting in state elections, failing to update one\u2019s home address, falsely accusing someone of committing a felony, and not showing up to an ICE office to be fingerprinted even though the person was a quadriplegic. […]<\/p>\n Apparently, a person\u2019s decades of positive actions and contributions to his\/her community don\u2019t matter in whether or not they should be considered an American.<\/p>\n What seems to be more important these days is whether they\u2019ve completed a form properly or not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n There’s more<\/a>.<\/p>\n As C.N. at Asian-Nation points out, this sort of thing is a natural byproduct of the climate created by the “war on terror.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More people are becoming aware of the massive injustices increasingly faced by undocumented immigrants. But now it turns out that even legal immigrants are being deported based on next-to-nothing. From Asian-Nation: As the New York Times reports, many legal immigrants … Continue reading