Posted on 06/09/2006 11:21:04 PM PDT by SmithL
Kansas City, Mo. -- The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a suburban Kansas City woman's request Friday to postpone her deportation, a penalty she faces because courts found she lied about her citizenship when she crossed the border illegally from Mexico years ago.
Myrna Dick, 32, is married to an American citizen, and her 19-month-old son was born in the Kansas City area. Dick, who speaks fluent English, was raised in Chihuahua, Mexico, but spent the last two decades in the United States.
Justice Samuel Alito denied the motion for a stay of deportation Friday evening, immediately following the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal's rejection of the same request, said Dick's attorney, Michael Sharma-Crawford.
While the high court still is weighing whether to rehear Dick's case, an eventual ruling in her favor still might not allow her to return to the U.S., Sharma-Crawford said.
"I'm not going to give up," Dick said in a telephone interview from San Diego, where she was preparing to leave the country Saturday, "but I just hope that people who have heard the tragedy of our lives will keep on struggling so that immigration laws benefit the many, many families who are in a situation like ours."
The case drew national attention in 2004, when Dick, then three months pregnant, was ordered to leave the country. The charge she faced — false claim to citizenship — carries a penalty of a permanent ban from the United States.
A federal judge in Missouri made the unusual decision to stave off Dick's deportation because he said her fetus essentially was an American citizen.
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See Dick run... run out of the country, that is.
"A federal judge in Missouri made the unusual decision to stave off Dick's deportation because he said her fetus essentially was an American citizen."
Send this Jerk with her!
No doubt the kid was a ploy to gain "permanent resident alien" status.
Send they guy she married too, he appears to have no problem with her being an illegal.
We need to make this sort of deportation common, instead of being the exception.
Stop the automatic Anchor Baby fiasco!!
The anchor can't pull her back in this case, unless and until Congress changes the law about the ban.
how can a tissue mass be a citizen?
Ooooh ... now there is an interesting precedent. A "clump of tissue" can be granted citizenship rights. I wonder if the judge thought that one all the way through to what other rights the baby might have. Does not a citizen have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of hapiness? Judge, that is a sure way to get your ACLU card revoked.
Dangerously close to granting citizenship to fetuses and sending abortion providers to jail, huh?
I'd be curious to see what position the extreme left would take with this one. My guess is that they send this broad packing it back to Mexico.
It's only a tissue mass if abortion is involved. It's a living, breathing, pooping human being if it benefits an illegal alien.
What the hay...why does this citizen of Mexico and an illegal in the US should think she deserves to stay in America. Being born in America DOES NOT MAKE THEM AMERICAN CITIZENS.
"The charge she faced — false claim to citizenship — carries a penalty of a permanent ban from the United States."
I guess that is the law of the land, at this time. Too bad for her she may not have realized that her "bad choice" would yield such a consequence.
Perhaps she and her husband and her child can reside happily (and lawfully) somewhere in Mexico?
Technically, a person has to be born before they are a citizen, its in the Constitution. Amendment XIV:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
Stop the automatic Anchor Baby fiasco!!
Every Mexican wants a piece of us. And we tolerate this due to the hacks in DC wanting a grand economic union between USA and Mexico (blech) and Canada.
Here is how they did it
Let her take her family with and they can stay together, goodness sake with all the money they made here they can afford to live well in mexico. Of course hopefully if they are receiving welfare benefits that will end when they leave.
Anchorbaby is a sham and a scam and needs to be repealed it is not feasible for this day and age.
"her fetus essentially was an American citizen"
Uh-oh, the pro-aborts won't like this.
One of the problems with liars is that they can never figure out that lying has consequences.
Instead they become innocent victims of a heartless system. (that's sarc by the way)
I am quite sure all of this would have been avoided if she had followed the legal means of obtaining citizenship and had she not lied when she entered the country.
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