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EMILY WAS DEPORTED

By Greg Siskind

Ruben Navarette writes in the San Francisco Chronicle that four year old Emily Ruiz, the American girl who was denied entry to the US when her grandfather was sent back to Guatemala, was deported despite the denials of an embarrassed Department of Homeland Security. I will not be cajoled into referring to what happened to Emily as a "de facto deportation." Baloney. The girl was on U.S. soil, and then she wasn't. And she was sent back to Guatemala, her parents' homeland, under the authority of the U.S. government - specifically, U.S. Customs and Border Protection. And she was, throughout...

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on March 30, 2011 (boomark / email).