Grandmother Deported for Voter Fraud Leaves U.S. in Tears - So Much Wrong With This Story!

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Grandmother Deported for Voter Fraud Leaves U.S. in Tears
by GABE GUTIERREZ and RICH GARDELLA
August 5, 2017

LAWRENCE, Kan. — As she held her two-week-old grandson, Margarita Fitzpatrick prepared for a family dinner she'd never forget.

Then she cried.

"Leaving them behind is heartbreaking," she said. "There are no words to describe (it)."

The dinner at her daughter's home would be her last in the country she loved.

n just hours, Fitzpatrick would have to board a plane to her native Peru at the order of immigration officials. Her legal options had been exhausted. Ten long years of court battles had come to this.

She was being deported.
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Fitzpatrick left Peru in 2001 and legally came to the U.S. to seek a better life in America with her three daughters.

She found it.

She decided to study English and earn a certificate as a medical translator. Eventually, she married and got a green card as she pursued a career in nursing. Her three daughters, born in Peru, became naturalized U.S. citizens.

She applied for an Illinois driver's license in 2005, presenting her Peruvian passport and her green card. On one form, she declined to register to vote. But she said a clerk asked her if she wanted to register to vote. When she asked the clerk if she was "supposed to," she said the clerk responded: "It's up to you."

"Non-citizens should not be asked this question — period," Fitzpatrick said.

On another form, she checked the "yes" box next to the question: "Are you a U.S. citizen?" She said she thought that was the closest thing to her status — "legal permanent resident."
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Then she voted — in two elections. She claimed she only voted for a local school superintendent candidate, because her daughters were in the schools.

It wasn't until she applied to become a citizen in 2007 that she said she learned those votes had been illegal. She admitted to the immigration officer what she did. The government soon started efforts to deport her.

"I was misled," she said. "I want the society to know that I am truly sorry for this error."
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She was taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in 2015 for a day before being released on supervision as the appeals process continued.

This week, with all legal options exhausted — except for that last-ditch petition to the Supreme Court — she obeyed the U.S. government’s deportation instructions, packed her belongings and drove to the airport in Kansas City.

Through tears, she clutched her new grandson for likely the last time on American soil — and said goodbye to her daughters.

Then, she stepped through security, boarded the plane and started the nearly 4,000-mile journey to Lima.

"I am truly sorry for this error," she said. "I could never have done anything against this country."

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The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 — or Motor Voter Law — states that driver's license clerks cannot "make any statement to an applicant or take any action the purpose or effect of which is to discourage the applicant from registering to vote."

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