[NYTr] Cuban-born California Woman Faces Possible Deportation by US Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 19:38:40 -0500 (CDT) Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit See earlier story: So.Calif Councilwoman Could be Deported to Cuba - for Voting! 6/27/07 http://olm.blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20070625/064777.html Granma International - Jul 3, 2007 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2007/julio/mar3/zoila.html Cuban-born California Woman Faces Possible Deportation by US Zoila Meyer has no access to privileges reserved for killers Taken to the United States by her family when she was a child, almost 40 years ago, this Cuban woman is being threatened with deportation by Bushbs immigration authorities BY JEAN GUY ALLARD Granma International staff writer ALL her life, Zoila Meyer, a Cuban woman who was taken by her family to the United States when she was just one year old, believed that she was a U.S. citizen band even managed to be elected as a councilwoman in Adelanto, California,b reports AP. However, she is currently threatened with deportation by the immigration authorities for having voted illegally, bgiven that she never became a U.S. citizen after having arrived in Cuba,b according the Immigration and Customs Service. bTo be honest, Ibm scared. How can they take me away from my family, my children?b said 40-year-old Meyer, the mother of four children, to the press agency in a telephone interview. After Meyer was elected to the city council in Adelanto in 2004, someone reported to federal officials that she was born in Cuba, thus prompting an immediate investigation. According to U.S. law, voting by non-citizens is a crime that carries the possibility of deportation. On June 19, Meyer had to present herself at the San Bernardino County immigration office. bThey handcuffed me,b she recalls, bthey put me in cell, registered and processed me.b On July 18 Meyer has to appear before an immigration judge to determine whether or not she will be deported to Canada, a country she once visited and which constitutes her last point of entry into the United States. IMMIGRATION LOOKS AFTER ITS FRIENDS Of course, the case can not be compared to that of Luis Posada Carriles, CIA agent, hired killer, torturer and terrorist who had things arranged for him to be able to remain with his Mafioso family in Miami after entering imperial territory aboard a shrimper, the crew of were a stew of notorious terrorists. It is certain that the international criminal mastermind behind the mid-flight explosion of a passenger plane, has White House influences at his disposal. Nor can the case be compared to that of Orlando Bosch, Posadabs accomplice and former head of CORU, freed from his little immigration problems on the order of George Bush Sr., thanks to a vigorous campaign carried out by Republican Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, now Bushbs foreign affairs spokesperson in the House of Representatives. Comfortably installed in his Miami bungalow, the elderly assassin has never held citizenship in his adopted country. Of course, we cannot make reference to the case of RamC3n SC!nchez Rizo, who was successively a member of Alpha 66, the so-called Cuba Freedom Organization and Omega 7, among other terrorist groups. After dozens of attacks, he was finally arrested by the FBI in 1982 for having placed a bomb under the car of RaC:l Roa KourC-, Cubabs ambassador to the UN, and was sentenced to 10 years in jail. On September 23, 2003, a certain shady immigration official called on this notorious terrorist b now disguised as an activist b to show him that he had been illegally in the United States, without citizenship or temporary residencyB