Deported man may be Houston-born citizen

Source: Houston Chronicle

Immigration officials are reviewing whether a 19-year-old man deported last week from South Texas is actually a U.S. citizen born in Houston.

Luis Alberto Delgado said he and his older brother were stopped last Thursday by a Jim Wells County Sheriff captain, who called the U.S. Border Patrol.

Despite carrying a birth certificate showing he was born at Houston's Ben Taub Hospital, a state of Texas ID card and a Social Security card, Delgado said he was taken into Border Patrol custody, questioned for eight hours and pressured into signing paperwork that cleared the way for his removal to Mexico.

Delgado, who returned to Houston three years ago after spending much of his childhood in Mexico, said immigration officials were suspicious because he spoke very little English. He said they kept saying, "No, these papers aren't yours."

"What they did to me was discrimination," Delgado said in a telephone interview from Reynosa. "I don't understand why they did this."

Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7077166.html

your head would swim.

Being born in Houston is.

That is what Texas will say.

Did you read the article?

Or that it has never happened. LEO's NEVER racially profile hispanics right or railroad them out of their rights?

Come out guys. Get to it on this thread. All those who have had such black and white thinking on our immigration policies, and that everything is so crystal clear

We should stop arresting people for any and all crimes because innocent people have gone to jail by mistake in the past.