Judge Orders Woman Adopted from Mexico at 5 Months Old to be Deported

[Liberal_in_LA]

Judge Orders Woman Adopted from Mexico at 5 Months Old to be Deported

This week a federal immigration judge has ordered a 38 year old woman who was adopted from a Mexican orphanage by US citizens at 5 months old to be deported back to Mexico.

Tara Ammons Cohen, who has been in the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma since July 8, 2009, has lost her argument that she would be in danger if she were deported to Mexico. Immigration laws do not recognize adoption as a special circumstance in deportations.

After bring the 5-month-old baby to the US, Cohen’s parents failed to get her nationalized. By the time that Cohen tried to straighten out her citizenship issues, she was already in trouble with the law.

The married mother of two was arrested in 2008 on theft and drug trafficking charges. She pleaded guilty to stealing a purse containing two bottles of prescription pills and to the trafficking charge, though she never sold a pill.

http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/notitas-de-noticias/details/judge-orders-women-adopted-from-mexico-at-5-months-old-to-be-deported/3468/

[Kali]

1. that's a weird story

mess!

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. saw documentary on this type of situation: Adults deported after committing crime

Had been hear illegally since childhood, deported to country they didn't know after committing a crime.

[tammywammy]

2. There was a thread on this a couple of days ago...it had a good article linked

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=9738249

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/03/29/1127368/an-illusion-of-citizenship-woman.html#ixzz17eyijkXc

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. oh good. thanks. going in to read

[TexasProgresive]

5. There are a lot of international adoptions.

Are all those people at risk of deportation to their countries of origin if they commit a crime? This could be hugh!?!?!

[malaise]

6. Any crime without nationalization and you're a goner

We have people who have been deported to Jamaica who have no relatives here and who left the island as babies, toddlers or young children. They know nothing about Jamaica. Few can make the adjustments and most arrive here penniless. It's truly sad.