Wash Park Prophet: "A mentally retarded man, who is a U.S. citizen with a Latino name was arrested 'on charges of trespassing and spraying graffiti at an airplane junkyard in Lancaster. In April, he was sentenced to 120 days in jail, but that was reduced to 40 days. On May 11, before his sentence was up, Guzman called his family from Tijuana and told them he had been deported.' The man 'who cannot read or write, spent much of the 89 days in Baja, California, on foot, avoiding human contact, eating from garbage cans and bathing in rivers,' when he was found by family members searching for him."
Colorado Luis (via SquareState):
I posted as a Quick Hit, then deleted, Jim Spencer's story in CoCo about Metro State and other state colleges' decision to charge out of state tuition to Colorado resident citizens unless they can prove that their parents are also citizens. It is outrageous enough to put on the front page. You see, this kind of thing does not happen by accident. It is way too parallel to the Grandfather Clauses used in the South after the Civil War to disenfranchise African-Americans. (Actually, those clauses disenfranchised immigrants and the children of immigrants as well -- they worked by putting in very difficult requirements for voting and then exempting those who could prove that their ancestors were eligible to vote before Reconstruction.)
"2008 pres"
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