Re: Two different takes on deportation


I came across this British news article yesterday:

Britain won't deport 80-year-old U.S. woman in Scotland
(http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4910798.html)

EDINBURGH, Scotland ââ?¬â?? A U.S.-born woman who faced deportation
from Scotland despite living there for 78 years said today she will be
allowed to stay in Britain.


And then I came across this US news article today:

Ex-SoCal councilwoman could be deported (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/2-
0070624/ap_on_re_us/councilwoman_deportation;_ylt=AlnuSfC127P8wtDgZSq-
69EwDW7oF)

LOS ANGELES - All of her life, [40-year-old] Zoila Meyer believed she
was an American. She even won election to the City Council of
Adelanto. But now she is facing a threat of deportation for illegally
voting, because she never became a citizen after being brought to this
country from Cuba when she was 1 year old.


Their situations aren't identical, but similar enough that it is
interesting how differently they're being dealt with by the
governments involved. Although, the American/Scottish woman does have
a 40-year edge on the Cuban/American woman -- which is probably why
she's being allowed to stay, was not handcuffed or put in jail, and is
actually being refunded the �£750 she paid for her naturalization
application.

~ Jenney

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/6756341.stm

I do not know what the rules were back then, but she probably has always
been a British Citizen, she just was not registered.

The other one seems to have a host of issues:

No mention of her parents being USC's.

She knew she was Cuban.

She had travelled many times it seems and had presented herself as
being a USC.

She voted in circumstances that only USC's could.

I would have thought that the voting aspect was not the main issue,
passing oneself off as a USC for Immigration benefit is much more
serious, no waiver.

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