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In crackdown on illegal immigrants, American citizens get caught in dragnet

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Pedro Guzman has been an American citizen all his life. Yet in 2007, the 31-year-old Los Angeles native — in jail for a misdemeanor, mentally ill and never able to read or write — signed a waiver agreeing to leave the country without a hearing and was deported to Mexico as an illegal immigrant.

Posted on  Tuesday, April 14, 2009By jackie
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Source: http://www.latimes.com
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