The Wichita Eagle
Kansas -- Marcos Ramires-Ramires hunched down in his chair last week in the federal courthouse in Wichita.
He stared at his lap as interpreter LuAnn Rivera relayed what a judge, a prosecutor and his lawyer all said about his future in a language he didn't understand. He looked like a lost kid.
None of them was certain how old he is. Nor could they depend on cooperation from Ramires, who seemed more content to stay in the Butler County jail than to return to his impoverished village in Guatemala.
The United States government had already sent Ramires back there once, only to have him turn up again two months later on a highway in Kansas.
Posted by tyne at October 29, 2006