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Pedro Guzman

LA Sheriff's Dept. "Mistakenly Deports" US Citizen

by: Todd Beeton

Tue Jun 12, 2007 at 16:37:59 PM PDT

(cross-posted from Courage Campaign also in orange)

"Mistakenly deported."

That's the phrase the LA Times uses to describe what happened to Pedro Guzman, a 29-year old developmentally disabled construction worker from Lancaster, CA (and American citizen) who was taken from his L.A. County jail cell on May 11 and dumped in Tijuana by the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. According to a lawsuit brought by the ACLU this week:

the Sheriff's Department identified him as a non-citizen, obtained his signature for voluntary removal from the United States and turned him over to federal authorities for deportation.

To this day his family doesn't know where he is or if he is even still alive.

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