<p>Well, yes.&nbsp; Russians, Poles…whatever.&nbsp; Even when they were born in Minnesota.<br /><br />

The lead paragraph in this McClatchy report sets up the <a id="zyw2" href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/25392.html" target="_blank" title="story">story</a>: &quot;Thomas Warziniack was born in Minnesota and grew up in Georgia, but immigration authorities pronounced him an illegal immigrant from Russia.&quot;<br /><br />

And, of course, you can guess what happened: &quot;His jailers shrugged off Warziniack’s claims that he was an American citizen, even though they could have retrieved his Minnesota birth certificate in minutes and even though a Colorado court had concluded that he was a U.S. citizen a year before it shipped him to Arizona.&quot;<br /><br />

Warziniack had a drug problem.&nbsp; When arrested, he told authorities improbable stories of having swum ashore from a Russian submarine.&nbsp; Maybe he’d seen the Alan Arkin movie.&nbsp; But he had a southern accent and did not speak Russian. A Colorado court hearing his case figured out quickly that he was a U.S. citizen by birth.&nbsp; The court records, however, according to McClatchy, still list his his current location as &quot;the Soviet Union.&quot;&nbsp; <br /><br />

That threw Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for a loop, and Warziniack was almost deported, although not to the Soviet Union, saved at the last moment by a birth certificate that ICE at first did not credit. <br /><br />

An attorney at the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College says she has identified at least seven U.S. citizens whom ICE has mistakenly deported since 2000.</p>