Deolinda Smith of New York City, a 70-year-old mentally ill woman, was deported to the Dominican Republic by the Immigration and Naturalization Service even though she's an American citizen born in Ossining, New York. The deportation hearings were carried out while Smith was in a mental hospital, suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, diabetes and a heart condition. An INS spokesman explained that, when they accused her of being an illegal alien, she didn't contest it. And you have no idea how many sick and elderly females pretend to be Americans when they're actually fugitives from Santo Domingo nursing homes, which are known Al Qaeda facilities.
November 10, 2002 7:08 AM
