We don't want you dark-skinned foreigners here

We have enough to swallow just to allow our own American-born darkies to stay. Immigrations is trying to deport a political asylum candidate from the Ivory Coast because he misread a handwritten date on a deportation hearing four years ago, which caused him to miss the appointment. He's been trying ever since to get the hearing scheduled, but Immigration says he has to go. He's never been in trouble here, and he's been working as a special education teacher in Boston. Protests and letters to the government by students, parents and coworkers have fallen on deaf ears. John Kerry was persuaded to file for a reprieve, which - suprise - was met with a response - the man can stay until early 2007 only while another country is being located that will take him.

"This is not just about him, this is about the community, the kids," she said. "Losing him is more than personal, because it will affect so many kids."

Despite the outpouring of support for him and the numerous appeals to reopen his case he has filed since he was ordered removed from the United States in absentia in June 2001, the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Immigration Court never allowed him to plead his case.

"He never got a chance to present his case to a judge because he missed his hearing inadvertently. There's a problem in the system," Cohen said. "It's almost embarrassing to live in a democracy where this could happen.

Almost?

And in related news...

A new Homeland Security Department pilot program is placing electronic ankle bracelets- similar to those placed on criminal offenders, on immigrants who are waiting for a resolution on their legal status.
  Pacifica Radio article