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Bills must stop deportations for minor offenses
BY RASHIDA TLAIB
-GUEST COLUMNIST- | LAST UPDATED: OCT 4, 2006 - 2:20:00 PM
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Lost in the often-vitriolic national quarrel over immigration reform is any examination of proposed measures that would result in excessive punishment, such as detention and deportation, for the most minor offenses. Concern for “national security” has introduced unprecedented insecurity to living in the United States as a legal permanent resident. When a legal immigrant can be deported for the most minor offenses, like omitting information on a form that at the time seemed irrelevant, or forgetting to change one’s address, can all be used as a basis to be uprooted from your home and taken away from your family and children.

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