Off-Topic Discussion: US Deportation
After midterms were finally over and students at toad’s high school finished testing in each of their seven classes, toad’s school rewarded each of its students an extensive four to five day weekend after accomplishing a large feat. Students had the choice to rest at home, vacation in another state, or vacation in another country. One student, however, chose to vacation in another country and faced a terrible fate.
The student realized that she had an expired passport around the time she was trying to come back home to Florida. She tried using her driver’s license and birth certificate as alternatives to clear through the U.S. Mexican boundaries at the airport to prove to them that she was a U.S. citizen and not an alien. However, this was not approved, as she then faced the trouble of having to be deported from Mexican grounds back to her family hometown in Britain. The officials knew to send her back to this country, as she tried using her dual British/United States passport. Apparently her other family members such as mother did not have an expired passport and was cleared to go back to Florida and decided to accompany her daughter in her deportation trip.
After the terrorist attacks from 9/11, the United States government responded immediately and created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to prevent and counter future terrorist attacks. Known as the executive department branch to hasten and centralize other executive departments, the DHS’s main role in plane travel in and out of U.S. borders is enforcing a deadline that all U.S. citizens carry a valid passport by June 2009. Unfortunately, certain airports such as the one the girl was at do not follow this deadline and would rather rush it, so that its airports are more secure.
During her entire trip on each plane ride, the girl was enjoying herself by playing block dude and tetris on her graphing calculator. The girl’s first stop back to Britain was at a Texan airport. Here, her mother decided that she could not continue following her daughter any longer and left her to continue her deportation trip on her own. The girl followed the official’s orders and was on her way to a New York airport. Even though she was constantly on her graphing calculators playing games, she did feel a bit uncomfortable sitting next to the other deportees. At the New York airport, she had a chance to plea to the officials before she was about to board the next airplane ride to Britain that she would get her passport renewed in the next three days. The officials heard her plea and allowed her to come back to Florida.
When she finally arrived home, she realized she was under some sort of governmental watch until she could go back to the office of Immigration and Alien services in Florida and renew her passport along with proving her residency and citizenship. Everyone was wondering where she was, since she was absent for almost two weeks due to being through constant air travel. She also knew she had quite a story to tell everyone at toad’s school that she was about to be fully deported. Her calculus teacher gave her at least five minutes to tell the story, but everyone was surprised that her mother left her during her deportation trip. The whole class had a chuckle especially, since she claimed that she was a better player at tetris and block dude on her graphing calculator. Currently, she is a reclaimed U.S. citizen with a renewed passport and will be traveling to Europe this summer.
Article by Toadomos.







June 5th, 2008 at 10:24 am
I wish we had that choice…
June 5th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Great story, and I am glad that everything appears to be okay.
…and not to sound stupid, but who is toad? >_>
June 5th, 2008 at 10:37 am
@Christoph: Toad might be a joke or something, I’m not sure.
June 5th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Toad is toadomos.
I should forgot to credit him with writing the article.
He made a creative decision and wrote it from a sort of third person perspective from what I understand.