Tuesday, December 29, 2009
So how come we can't deport that miserable shit, John Yoo?
From Texas comes a tale of the awesome and awful web of immigration law that sends an adopted American back to his "home country" which he has had no connection to literally since the day of his birth.
In 1974, a midwife in El Paso placed a day-old baby in the arms of Lora and Royce Whiteley of Fort Worth. Six years later, while living in Woodville, they officially adopted Robin.And without documents he can't work in Mexico or they will deport him, though it is left unsaid where to. Which brings me to my original question. Sure, he had a drug bust but he never tried to destroy the constitutional basis of this country, so you tell me, why is he deported and John Yoo is living comfortably in Berkley, CA?
The Whiteleys, who had six children, moved to Lufkin in 1984.
McMillan, who was also born in Mexico and was adopted as an infant by the Whiteleys, recalls her little brother as most big sisters would — a boy who bothered and teased her. But she looked after him.
"I always felt very protective of Robin," McMillan said. "He was like my own baby doll. I took care of my little brother."
As he grew up, Whiteley was athletic and into boxing in Lufkin, she said. "He was just your normal, crazy kid and a typical teen."
But even Whiteley admits that he made bad decisions. State criminal records show that he had some misdemeanor convictions, and he went to state prison for a felony drug conviction.
When the time came for his release from prison in 2002, he fell down the immigration rabbit hole.
Neither the United States nor Mexico has a record of his birth, said his lawyer, Andres Lopez of McAllen. And his parents had pursued legal residency for him but not citizenship.
Lacking both a birth certificate and naturalization papers, Whiteley, who doesn’t speak Spanish, was deported to Mexico on the assumption that it was his country of origin, Lopez said. He now lives as an undocumented immigrant in a one-room cinder-block apartment in Reynosa, Mexico.
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