Send us your tired, your poor, your disoriented…

(Sombrero tip to Irwin at Our Latin America):

The FBI ignored evidence showing a North Carolina man deported twice was a U.S, citizen, records indicated.

The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer reported Mark Lyttle, 32, of Rowan County, N.C., is mentally ill and gave conflicting stories to FBI agents about his country of origin. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Lyttle caused the errors by saying he was from Mexico.

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In the past year, Lyttle sent first to a location in Mexico across the border from Hidalgo, Texas, left with no money and no contacts in the area. He was then sent to Honduras, where he was imprisoned and sent to Guatemala.

He managed to contact his brother, who sent him money to go home, the newspaper reported.

“This is not rocket science. It took someone in Guatemala one day to prove he was a citizen,” said Jacqueline Stevens, a University of California at Santa Barbara professor who has written about Lyttle on her blog and is writing a book on his situation, the newspaper said.

Yup, you read that right. Homeland Stupidity managed to deport a disable American citizen… twice!