Thursday, January 24, 2008

Bushed
From McClatchy.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has held Warziniack for weeks in an Arizona detention facility with the aim of deporting him to a country he's never seen. His jailers shrugged off Warziniack's claims that he was an American citizen, even though they could have retrieved his Minnesota birth certificate in minutes and even though a Colorado court had concluded that he was a U.S. citizen a year before it shipped him to Arizona.[...]
"The burden of proof is on the individual to show they're legally entitled to be in the United States," said ICE spokeswoman Kice.

Under Bush no more innocent until proven guilty. Hat tip Atrios.

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