Posted on 06/24/2007 4:58:59 PM PDT by Kaslin
LOS ANGELES — All of her life, Zoila Meyer believed she was an American. She even won election to the City Council of Adelanto.
But now she is facing a threat of deportation for illegally voting, because she never became a citizen after being brought to this country from Cuba when she was 1 year old.
"To be honest with you, I'm scared. How can they just pluck me out of my family, my kids?" the 40-year-old mother of four said in a telephone interview Friday.
"If they can do this to me, they can do it to anybody," she said.
After Meyer was elected to the council in Adelanto in 2004, someone told officials that she was born in Cuba, prompting an investigation.
Eventually, "the police came to me and said, 'Zoila, you're not a citizen. You're a legal resident but you're not a citizen,"' said Meyer, who now lives in the San Bernardino County desert town of Apple Valley, near Adelanto.
She resigned after 10 weeks in office in Adelanto, a town of about 23,000.
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Bye, bye!!
You obviousely did not read the article. She is not an illegal
She’s lived in the country since she was a year old.
Hard to believe that she did not know that she wasn’t a citizen.
In 40 years did she never look at her birth certificate? If she didn’t have one did she not wonder where it was?
On the other hand, you are correct. She voted illegally
Someone might have told her that she was, who knows?
There are many confusing laws.
For example, if you and your parents are legal immigrants, and your parents become citizens before you reach the age of 18, you automatically become a citizen.
I find it hard to believe they would deport her to Cuba. I am no fan of illegal aliens, but she is not an illegal. If this headline is correct, it is a travesty.
You can’t be deported if you’re not an illegal. She is being deported, therefore she is an illegal. Right?
Wrong. She is being deported because she voted, not because she is an illegal immigrant. If she had not voted there would be no problem.
She is a criminal just like anyone else who commits voter fraud.
That's what we're counting on!
This is like a foundling child who’s been adopted by good foster parents at the age of three months; spends the next fourteen years happily with his adopted family, and then has his “real” parents, a pair of lowlife trailer trash, come to claim him.
She’d have a bit more credibility with me if she’d hold off on the “how can they do this to my family?” routine until after the hearing.
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