Group says U.S. citizen wrongly deported to Mexico

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Group says U.S. citizen wrongly deported to Mexico
Mon Jun 11, 2007 6:48 PM ET

By Kemp Powers

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union sued the U.S. government on Monday over what the rights group said was the wrongful deportation of a developmentally disabled U.S. citizen who is now missing in Mexico.

ACLU spokesman Michael Soller said 29-year-old Pedro Guzman was serving a 120-day sentence in a Los Angeles jail for trespassing when he was deported to Tijuana, Mexico, on May 10 or May 11 for an alleged immigration violation.

The group's suit filed in U.S. District Court seeks to have the deportation order suspended and for the U.S. government to help locate Guzman.

Guzman, who was born in Los Angeles and lived about 70 miles north in Lancaster with his mother, could barely read and write, Soller said. He did not know his phone number and kept his brother's telephone number on a piece of paper.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_in_East_L.A.

Anyone with brown skin trying to cross the southern border has been harassed for as long as I've lived in this area, and undoubtedly far longer. This applies to people whose ancestors were here before white folks, the southwestern Hispanos, as well as people from the Middle East and some Native Americans.