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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I watched the series this weekend, it was heartbreaking!  What I didn't know about was the 1997 Clinton law that if you came to this country on a tourist visa but then worked illegally and then met an American citizen and fell in love and married (so not a sham marriage) you could still not become a citizen via your spouse - your earlier crime bars you forever!

The zero tolerance policy makes it feel like a police state and is so anti-American.
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He didn’t come on a tourist visa.  Back when he came from Mexico in the 1990s, a passport wasn’t even required as a form of ID. A birth certificate would suffice. This didn’t apply to all countries but it did apply to Mexico at the time.  This is no longer the case.  He probably used the birth certificate of a US citizen.  The law passed by the Clinton administration has a lifelong ban on anyone who falsely claims to be a US citizen, which is probably why he is banned.  I don’t this is right because it happened when he was 14 and he was clearly just doing what some adult family member told him to do.

On the positive side, he has a very wonderful husband.  And I’d say Toronto is a huge upgrade from Milwaukee.  [/quote]
I don’t understand his story. From the article linked in another post “He flew into the U.S., Thom explained, which means that he was likely required to provide some sort of paperwork. And because he might have lied about being a legal citizen, he is now permanently barred from ever being given citizenship.”

How would Fernandez not know what he said? Also, to your point that you only needed a birth certificate to go back and forth to Mexico and the US, how do they know Fernandez didn’t fly in and say he was a tourist and present his birth certificate.

And on another note, I wonder how accurate our immigration records really are from the 1990s.[/quote]

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