{"id":25450,"date":"2011-06-30T08:32:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T12:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25450"},"modified":"2011-06-30T10:11:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T14:11:34","slug":"iraq-vet-gets-deal-in-passport-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25450","title":{"rendered":"Iraq vet gets deal in passport case"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A few of you sent me a link the other day about Elisha L. Dawkins, an Army veteran and currently a Navy Petty Officer who was arrested for checking the wrong box on a passport application. I figured there was more to the story than what was being reported and I was right (New York Times<\/a> link);<\/p>\n

Petty Officer Dawkins was brought to the United States from the Bahamas as a baby and was raised in Miami believing he was a United States citizen, said his lawyer, Clark Mervis. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was indicted in Miami while he was stationed at Guantanamo and arrested soon after his return for falsely checking a box on his passport application that wrongly stated he hadn’t applied for a passport in the past. Now it seems he was, unknown to him, an illegal alien as well.<\/p>\n

But the prosecutor has taken into account that he served in the Army in Iraq and holds a security clearance with the Navy and offered him a term of probation in exchange for dropping the charges.<\/p>\n

Of course, ICE, who won’t deport regular illegal aliens who haven’t done a thing for this country, is being a bureaucratic dick;<\/p>\n

Dani Bennett, a spokeswoman with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said on Tuesday that Petty Officer Dawkins did not have an immigration hold on him, meaning he would be free to leave the federal detention center if he agreed to the pretrial diversion program. Once his criminal case is resolved, he will have to fight a separate battle to sort out his immigration status. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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