Originally Posted by Chula Vista

An ex-coworker and good friend of mine was born in Columbia. She was in the US for decades, legally worked full time, paid her taxes, married and raised a family here.

Somewhere along the line she forgot to cross a T or dot an I and she was arrested at the San Diego airport while trying to fly back to Columbia to visit family. Her eldest son was in the US military at the time.

She was locked up in a ****ty detention center for about a month while the courts went over her case. She's petite and very attractive and was abused pretty badly during that time.

A bunch of us wrote letters to the court on her behalf, pleading the case that she was a model US citizen with a child serving the country. All to no avail. She got deported back to Columbia and didn't get back into the US and her family for over 3 years.

The far right can suck my dirty balls.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.