Manuel Rios: Immigration Laws

American Couple Dept: Tara Ammons Cohen, who has been in the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma since July 8, 2009, has been fighting to stay in America ever since. She fears being deported to Mexico where she hasn t lived since she was an infant, doesn t speak the language and knows no one would place her in danger, according to The Star. Immigration laws do not recognize adoption as a special circumstance in deportations and tACOMA, WASH. A U.S. immigration judge has ordered a 38-year-old woman adopted by an American couple from Mexico when she was five months old to be deported back to her native country. Basically, the judge found her not eligible for withholding of removal deportation and found it more likely than not she wouldn t be persecuted in Mexico, her attorney, Manuel Rios of Seattle, said Thursday. As reported in the news.
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