States without Nations

States Without Nations: Citizenship For Mortals, Available on Kindle

2012-01-23T09:47:00.000-08:00

(You can go here to order.) $10 less than the $25 paperback and you can read it on the subway.

US Citizen Deported to Jamaica in 2005, Court Ruling Yesterday Gives Him A Way Back Home

2012-01-10T17:55:00.000-08:00

According to a Ninth Circuit decision issued yesterday, Linden Winston Graham has presented material evidence that he was born on the U.S. Virgin Island of St. Croix and is thus a US citizen. The Ninth Circuit, for the reasons stated in the screen shot above, has thus remanded his case to a district court in Arizona, as well as suggested that the court consider returning Mr. Graham from Jamaica

Of Course ICE Is Deporting Teenage Americans Who Speak No Spanish To Colombia

2012-01-04T14:18:00.000-08:00

[document cut here for size, letter dated October 20, 2010](Entire settlement here.)The horrifying experience of Jakadrian Turner, a 14 year-old U.S. citizen who speaks no Spanish but who was deported to Colombia in April, 2011, will come as no surprise to anyone who has been following the systematic law-breaking by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, and the failure of the

EOIR Fails to File Change of Its Own Chicago Address With Itself

2012-01-03T13:12:00.000-08:00

The EOIR issued an official announcement on December 1, 2011 indicating a move on December 7. but it never bothered to change its own web page to reflect this. DON'T GO HERE!!! (BELOW)The above is a screen shot from the court listings on the Executive Office of Immigration Review web page for January 3, 2012, almost one month after the courts moved to... CORRECT ADDRESS Well, it's sort of the

New York Times Hides Recent Deportation of US Citizens

2011-12-14T02:04:00.000-08:00

My research on the unlawful detention of U.S. citizens was cited in Julia Preston's article today in the New York Times, "Immigration Crackdown Also Snares Americans." Unfortunately, Ms. Preston, whose focus was on situations in which US citizens were briefly detained, added, or her editor did, the following inaccurate sentence: "In no recent cases was an American placed in deportation." In

USCIS Official Jaime Yslas Testifies Falsely About Dual Citizenship

2011-12-09T13:57:00.001-08:00

From the 2008 transcript of the prosecution questioning of USCIS agent Jaime Yslas during Esteban Tiznado's 2008 trial for Illegal ReentryIn addition to the false and misleading testimony of a US government official, this post documents the successful appeal of Esteban's cousin in June, 2011,relying on the same evidence that also proves Esteban's citizenshipLast week I had the opportunity to

Speaking of Lawsuits Filed by U.S. Citizens Falsely Imprisoned by ICE......

2011-12-07T11:35:00.000-08:00

Exerpt from November 14, 2011 U.S. Judge Magistrate's advisory decision denying most of the government's Motions to Dismiss Mark Lyttle's lawsuit In response to the post last week about the government's false imprisonment and kidnapping of Esteban Tiznado, a reader posted a comment suggesting lawsuits are in order. Indeed.Thankfully, people are filing these, and a recent judge magistrate's

ICE Ignores Esteban Tiznado-Reyna's Evidence of Citizenship, Deports Him, Again, to Mexico

2011-11-30T11:57:00.001-08:00

Esteban Tiznado, captured and photographed by Border Patrol in Arizona desert after U.S. government ignores his evidence of U.S. citizenship, taken shortly after midnight, February 23, 2011