Emily Ruiz, the 4-year-old U.S. citizen who was sent back to Guatemala earlier this month, is back with her family on American soil. Her family's lawyer, David Sperling, even tweeted photos of the reunion with the caption "mission accomplished." Meanwhile, lawmakers and lawyers are still trying to figure out exactly how, in the words of LI congressman Steve Israel, “This bureaucratic overreach and utter failure of commonsense left a little girl, a U.S. citizen no less, stranded thousands of miles from her parents.” more ›

Emily Ruiz, the 4-year-old U.S. citizen who was de facto deported from the country earlier this month will be back in the States by the end of the week, according to her lawyer David Sperling. And what's more, she'll be flying back to the States in style. "Immigration treated her like a second-class citizen, but we're going to bring her here and she's going to come first class," Sperling quipped to reporters. more ›

The hot-button issue of granting citizenship to the children of immigrants that are born in the U.S. has a new poster child. Everybody meet four-year-old Emily Samantha Ruiz, a Long Island girl who was deported to Guatemala by the U.S. on March 11—despite being a totally legal citizen of the United States. more ›