Marie Dextraze - Operations Officer, Global Affairs Canada

On 2010-06-30, Dextraze sent me a letter while I was being detained in the Maricopa County Jail Letter from Dextraze, 2010-06-30. I had never heard of her and had no idea why she would be contacting me. In her letter she made no reference to me being a Canadian citizen and did not ask me whether I was. She did not give any indication of why she was contacting me or how she came to know I was in MCSO custody.

I wrote her back, asking how she came to know I was in MCSO custody. I did not make any reference to my citizenship Letter to Dextraze, 2010-07-08. I figured if the Canadian authorities believed I was a Canadian citizen and would allow me to be deported to Canada based on that belief then I might be able to use that to get out of ICE custody. I decided, if they asked me about my citizenship, I would tell them I'm not a Canadian citizen; but if they didn't ask, I wouldn't bring it up.

On 2010-08-12, Dextraze wrote me back, explaining that ICE had requested a travel document in December 2009 but then subsequently informed her I had been transferred to the MCSO Letter from Dextraze, 2010-08-12.

On 2010-08-20, I wrote Dextraze back, politely and ambiguously letting her know I would keep her information available in the event I am ever in need of assistance Letter to Dextraze, 2010-08-20. You know, declining current assistance but keeping the options open for the future. Dextraze did not respond further.

Over the next few months I decided it would probably be better to not let the Canadian authorities proceed based on their false assumptions because they might claim I deliberately mislead them and I might find myself being prosecuted in Canada because they made and acted on false assumptions.

So, on 2010-11-29, I sent Dextraze another letter, very clearly stating I am not making any claim of being a Canadian citizen or of being born in Canada Letter to Dextraze, 2010-11-29.

I very expressly did not make any claim of being or not being a Canadian citizen or of where I was born; I only stated I was not making a claim of being a Canadian citizen or being born in Canada.

I explained that the reason I was telling her this is that I didn't want to run into potential legal complications in Canada should the Canadian authorities allow me to be deported there.

And then the most insane thing happened.

Dextraze sent me a response. Her tone was now totally different. She was no longer being overly polite, formal, or accommodating. She now seemed almost hostile.

It's as though she was greatly offended that I would suggest I am not a Canadian citizen and have no interest in being a Canadian citizen. Or that I would suggest the Canadian authorities might possibly be incorrect about something Letter from Dextraze, 2010-12-17.

I suspect what happened was when she received my letter stating I am not making a claim of being a Canadian citizen she read it as "I am not a Canadian citizen". Even though saying "I am not making a claim of being a Canadian citizen" is totally, totally different than saying "I am not a Canadian citizen". But you know, chicks always do that shit, they take whatever you say and turn it into the most extreme version of something negative. Like if a woman offers you something to eat and you say, "No thanks. I just ate. I'm not hungry." What they hear is "Fuck no! Your food is gross!"

I suspect at that moment, Dextraze and others within the Canadian Consulate may have realized they screwed up by blindly accepting what ICE was claiming, and issued a travel document for a person who wasn't a Canadian citizen without doing anything to verify whether the person was actually a Canadian citizen.

But unfortunately, Canadian authorities never acknowledge they made a mistake or did anything wrong. Instead, they do everything they can to make it seem like you are the one who did something wrong and they were victims.

Dextraze then said in her letter, "Upon your release from state custody, you will be transferred to the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to undergo immigration proceedings" Letter from Dextraze, 2010-12-17. Uh, no! I've already gone through the entire removal proceedings and their appeals. The proceedings are done. But now things are starting to make sense - Dextraze is an NPC, blindly and unquestioningly performing the very narrow sequence of steps she was trained (or programmed) to do, while ignoring any inputs and variables who's values are outside the bounds of what she's been programmed to consider "normal".

Shortly after getting back to EDC, my new Deportation Officer Michael Leal, brought me a Canadian passport application for me to fill out with Ricky Riess's information, so he could use that to deport me.

I provided him the mostly completed application Passport Application filled in by me, 2011-03-01 along with a letter explaining the parts I couldn't fill out Letter to Leal, 2011-03-01.

I then forwarded a copy of that letter, along with a copy of the passport application, to Dextraze with a letter explaining that I was doing so becuase I've had issues in the past with ICE forging the documents I had provided them Letter to Dextraze, 2011-03-01.

Neither Dextraze, nor anyone else from any Canadian authority responded.

On 2011-03-29, having not heard back from Dextraze about the travel document application, I sent her a follow-up letter.

I explained that Leal had informed me the burden is on me, not ICE, to submit the request for a travel document Letter to Dextraze, 2011-03-29. He was, of course, lying. The burden is on ICE to communicate with the foreign authorities to obtain a travel document. Dextraze even stated so in her 2010-12-17 letter Letter from Dextraze, 2010-12-17.

Nevertheless, in my latest letter I made a formal, written request for a travel document, for the purpose of being removed to Canada.

In this letter, I now clearly and unequivocally stated I am not a Canadian citizen. Given her apparent insistence in her 2010-12-17 letter, that I AM a Canadian citizen, I figured they were going to issue the travel document regardless of what I said and this way I had clear, irrefutable proof I did not misrepresent myself as a Canadian citizen.

Neither Dextraze, nor anyone else, responded.

On 2011-04-07, I sent Dextraze a letter, asking her what information ICE had provided her which resulted in that travel document being issued without proof of Canadian citizenship Letter to Dextraze, 2011-04-07.

Recall that in her 2010-12-17 letter, Dextraze mentioned that a travel document had previously been issued, and she also mentioned that GAC had never actually received any documentary evidence of me being a Canadian citizen Letter from Dextraze, 2010-12-17.

So, it seemed extremely troubling to me that they would have issued that travel document.

I also figured, if she told me what information was provided previously, then perhaps I could provide that same information now, in order to get them to issue a new travel document so I could get the fuck out of ICE custody.

No one responded.

On 2011-06-17, having still heard absolutely nothing from the Canadian authorities since arriving at EDC, I sent Dextraze yet another letter. Now I asked her whether providing a travel document application, completely filled out, with Ricky Riess's information, would help me in obtaining a travel document for my deportation to Canada Letter to Dextraze, 2011-06-17. I told her I realized that may result in me being prosecuted upon my arrival in Canada, but at least it would get me out of this seemingly perpetual ICE custody.

No one responded.

In that message, Dextraze falsely claimed I "had no problems" corresponding with her throughout my incarceration in the county jail, but that I declared myself not a Canadian citizen once I was transferred back to ICE custody. That is completely false!

As you saw above, most of my correspondence with her while I was in the county jail was deliberately vague and ambiguous, or inquiring how she knew I was there.

Then, on 2010-11-29, while I was still in the county jail, I explicitly emphasized I was making no claim of being a Canadian citizen Letter to Dextraze, 2010-11-29. She then responded, saying the US had already determined I was a Canadian citizen, but she also admitted no evidence of Canadian citizenship had actually been provided and she urged me to promptly provide that Letter from Dextraze, 2010-12-17. Obviously, I wouldn't be able to provide evidence of Canadian citizenship because I'm not a Canadian citizen.

And that's when I stopped corresponding from the county jail ... because there was nothing more that needed to be said at that time. She offered her assistance, based on her assumption I was a Canadian citizen; I tentaively accepted her offer but only with the understanding that I am not making any claim of being a Canadian citizen; she responded that as far as she's concerned it's already been established that I AM a Canadian citizen. What more needed to be said?

Dextraze's last letter to me was dated 2010-12-17. I would have receieved it at the county jail around 2010-12-23. I was in the county jail, representing myself on those criminal charges. Corresponding with the consulate of a foreign country which I wasn't a citizen of, and which wasn't very likely to do anything for me once they realized I wasn't a citizen, was not a high priority to me at that time. So my next letter to Dextraze was on 2011-03-01, just after I returned to ICE custody, just over two months since her last letter. Not really that much of a lapse, considering what I was dealing with at the time and the relative irrelevance of the Canadian Consulate to me.

In March 2011, after I was back in ICE custody, I was the one who initiated correspondence with her. I sent her numerous letters and she failed to respond to any of them. So she is the one who changed her correspondence patterns after I returned to ICE custody, not me. She is the one who stopped corresponding with me after I mentioned I wasn't a Canadian citizen, not me.

Regarding Dextraze's claim I declared I was not a Canadian citizen as soon as I was transferred back to ICE custody: I don't think she's being completely accurate with that.

I had emphasized in my 2010-11-29 letter that although ICE alleges I am a Canadian citizen, I have not made such a claim; and I have certainly not made any claim of being born in Canada Letter to Dextraze, 2010-11-29. While that may not be an outright declaration of not being a Canadian citizen, it is a pretty strong implication.

Then, after I made that pretty strong implication, Dextraze wrote me back saying the US has already determined I am a Canadian citizen and her office confirmed that. So my understanding from Dextraze's response was that as far as the Canadian authorities are concerned, I am a Canadian citizen regardless of what I claim.

Therefore, admitting I'm not a Canadian citizen shouldn't make any difference with respect to being issued a travel document. But what was important from my perspective was making sure there was no way the Canadian authorities could blame me for misleading them or falsely representing myself as a Canadian citizen.

Moreover, I disagree with Dextraze's implication that my return to ICE custody had anything to do with my admission of not being a Canadian citizen. The timing of that was purely coincidental. While I was in the county jail I knew I was inevitably going to be returned to ICE custody, so whether I informed Dextraze I was not a Canadian citizen while I was still in county custody or in ICE custody would be irrelevant. The timing of my admission of not being a Canadian citizen had more to do with me giving it more consideration and concluding that withholding the information may result in me running into legal complications upon my arrival in Canada.

In that same message, Dextraze also falsely claimed I declared myself a victim of identity theft. That is, of course, completely fucking insane!

I never said anything about being a victim of identity theft, in fact, if you review all of my interactions with Dextraze you will see I never made any mention of identity theft at all. So I have no idea where she got this idea.

My position all along, with ICE, the US Attorney's Office, and anyone else who cared to inquire, was that I essentially committed identity theft by changing my name to Richard Riess knowing there was a person with that name and the same date of birth as me.

Regardless, how would someone stealing my identity result in DHS or the Canadian authorities thinking I was a person born in Sudbury, Canada? Let's say if Ricky Riess from Sudbury, Canada had stolen my identity, Patrick Fox from Florida, how the fuck would that result in me having a Canadian passport in Ricky Riess's name with my photo? Dextraze has gone beyond studip here. What Dextraze is suggesting is beyond the complete opposite of logical, rational, and sensible.

How the fuck could she possibly mix that up? I think this is another example of her being an NPC who has no error or exception handling for unexpected inputs. Because she would expect a person to claim to be a victim of a crime, not the perpetrator of a crime, her simple mind rejected what I actually said and turned it into what she expected to hear.

Dextraze then says, ICE would very much like to remove me to Canada. Not just that they would like to remove me from the US, but specifically to Canada.

Why was ICE so hell bent on sending me to Canada? There were other countries they could have deported me to with much less effort, but they insisted it be Canada.

That's very strange to me. It's almost like their insistence on Canada was some kind of slap in the face, to spite me.

Dextraze then told Chen, ICE still has not provided a completed passport application.

I find that extremely peculiar because I provided Leal the passport application in early March 2011. Apparently, he never forwarded it to the consulate. I suspect the reason Leal didn't forward the passport application was because he saw that I had forwarded a copy to Dextraze directly, so if he changed anything on the one I gave him he would be caught forging my legal document.

And it's even more peculiar because I also forwarded a copy of that same application directly to Dextraze at that same time. So she already had the application. What difference does it make if it comes from me or from Leal? What possible reason could there be for the consulate to refuse the application just because I submitted it directly?

You might argue that the issue was that the application I forwarded was not complete, there were some fields left blank. Fair enough, except that both ICE and the Canadian authorities were the ones insisting I was the person born Ricky Riess in Sudbury, Canada, so what difference would it make if I filled in all the fields or not? They were the ones insisting I was that person, not me.

Dextraze then said to Chen, she scanned in my correspondence so Chen could see, first-hand, my non-cooperation.

Seriously! She said that! Even though I was the one sending her letters, asking what I could do to assist with the issuance of the travel document, even offering to knowingly put false information, the information they insisted was true, on the application if that would help Letters to Dextraze 2011-03-01; 2011-03-29; 2011-04-27; 2011-05-23; 2011-06-17, and it was Dextraze who did not respond to a single one of my letters since my return to ICE custody. And yet, she has the delusional insanity to claim I'm the one who has been uncooperative.

But what's truly amazing about this is that she provided my letters to Chen, which irrefutably prove I'm the one who has been trying to cooperate, trying to get a travel document issued, and Dextraze is the one who has been refusing to respond, and yet Chen actually agreed with Dextraze that I've been refusing to cooperate!

Dextraze then pointed out to Chen that my file shows that I was previously issued a travel document.

I believe Dextraze's point with that was the fact that I was previously issued a travel document is evidence that I am a Canadian citizen. However, Dextraze herself was the one that issued that travel document, in December 2009, and it was issued without ever having spoken to me or verifying that I'm actually the person named on the passport.

But again, this is the completely idiotic mentality of Canadian government employees: Because I was previously, erroneously issued a travel document, that same person who issued the travel document, who now knows it was issued erroneously, still accepts it as proof of Canadian citizenship. It's as though, in Dextraze's mind she's thinking "In 2009, I issued him a travel document, therefore he must be a Canadian citizen." It would never occur to her that maybe that previously issued document was erroneous - even though she was the one who issued it and she clearly knows it was erroneous.

All of that is from one, single message sent from Dextraze to IRCC, seeking their guidance on what to do about me.

And all those lies she told and misrepresentations she made are refuted by GAC's own prior records. But Jane Chen would blindly accept everything Dextraze said, without realizing that it's all contradicted by the government's own records.

Even the claim about me being uncooperative: Dextraze sent Chen my letters - letters which prove I was trying to assist in the issuance of the travel document, and it was Dextraze who was refusing to cooperate - but still, Chen completely ignored that physical evidence and blindly accepted Dextraze's claim.

How the fuck can any reasonable, reality based person possibly dispute anything with such people? There is no way you can win, even when you're right and ALL the evidence supports you, even when their own evidence supports you, because they simply ignore reality, they ignore hard, physical, irrefutable evidence and only accept as evidence what their cohorts and colleagues say, as if somebody merely saying something is concrete proof of the truth of that thing.

Dextraze claimed ICE "was relieved and will speak with their legal department."

But relieved about what? Even if the Canadian Consulate refused to issue a travel document for me, ICE still had the Ricky Riess passport. A Canadian passport, even an expired one, is a travel document and can be used for removing a person from the US. If ICE had stuck me on a plane to Vancouver, or dropped me at any Canadian land port of entry, with that passport, that would have been sufficient.

There was absolutely no need for all this interaction with the Canadian Consulate.

Unless, of course, the Canadian authorities informed ICE that the passport was fraudulent and would not be accepted as a travel document.

And what would ICE need to speak to their legal department about? This is just another ordinary removal. The Immigration Court already ordered me removed and ICE is just enforcing that order. Clearly there were more legal concerns related to my physical removal from the US.

Dextraze then said to Pellijeff, that ICE expressed they do not expect me to cooperate with the completion of the travel document application.

But again, why would that matter? This process of requesting an emergency travel document from the Canadian Consulate is the procedure the Canadian authorities prefer, but it's not mandatory. If ICE and the Canadian authorities actually believed I was the person named on the Ricky Riess passport, then ICE could have removed me using that passport the day after I returned to their custody in February 2011.

In my later removals, ICE doesn't even bother contacting the Canadian Consulate, they just put me in a truck, drove me to a port of entry, and told CBSA to take me.

The only reasonable explanation for why ICE, the Canadian Consulate, and IRCC are going through all of this formality is because IRCC revoked the Ricky Riess passport based on it being fraudulent, which means there is currently no travel document which ICE can use to remove me.

Dextraze advised Pellijeff ICE had provided her a series of photos of me and, when compared to the passport photo she is confident I am Ricky Riess, the person named on the passport.

Here, again, we see that the Canadian authorities assumed the passport was legitimately applied for by Ricky Riess and provided to Ricky Riess. The only question in their minds was am I a third party who subsequently took possession of the passport from Ricky Riess.

There was never a single mention by a single person within the Canadian government about the possibility that I applied for the passport using another person's information. At least, there's no documented record of anyone mentioning that. But what makes it even more disturbing is that I openly told them that is exactly what I did.

The fact that there is no record of anyone ever suggesting the possibility that I obtained the passport of another person fraudulently, gives me the impression that somebody very sternly told them NOT to investigate or pursue that possibility. Either that or just every single person who works in Global Affairs Canada, IRCC, and CBSA are truly the dumbest, most completely brain dead people who have ever existed and it simply never occurred to them.

But getting back to this issue of ICE providing the Consulate photos of me. Of course the photos of me, from ICE, match the photo on the passport - I applied for the fucking passport! I filled out the application! I attached two photos of me to it! I've openly admitted that. There is no dispute about that!

One of the items not completed on the 2011-03-01 application, which Dextraze claimed needed to be provided, was the signature for the declaration of Canadian citizenship.

But I had told Dextraze in my 2011-03-01 letter that I could not sign that declaration because I am not a Canadian citizen Letters to Leal, Dextraze, 2011-03-01. In a later letter to Dextraze, I expressed my willingness to provide an application filled out with Ricky Riess's information, which would include signing the declaration of Canadian citizenship if it would help to obtain the travel document Letter to Dextraze, 2011-06-17.

Dextraze did not respond.

In that email to Leal, Dextraze stated one of the missing items are the references. She went on to say "I have no doubt he will refuse to list any...". I find it incredibly vexing that she would say that because in the letter I sent her with the application form on 2011-03-01, I explained to her the reason I did not provide any references was because I don't know anyone who meets the requirements Letters to Leal, Dextraze, 2011-03-01. It's not that I was refusing to provide references, it's that I didn't have any!

The Canadian passport application requires the applicant to provide the names and contact information for two references who have known the applicant for at least two years and who can confirm the applicant's identity. The references cannot be family members. By March 2011, I had been in custody for almost four years. I hadn't kept in touch with anyone who would be able to confirm my identity - particularly since ICE and the Canadian Consulate were insisting my identity was Ricky Riess from Canada.

This is yet another example of Dextraze either lying, grossly misrepresenting the facts, or being delusional. You see what I mean, you can't argue or debate with these people; you can't present your case based on facts and reality; because they completely ignore facts and reality and just make up whatever they want - even when their own documents and records prove they are wrong. And then, everyone else within the government blindly accepts what they say as truth - again, even though their own records prove the person is wrong.

In her email to Leal, Dextraze acknowledged ICE had provided a scanned copy of Ricky Riess's Ontario birth certificate, but asked whether ICE had the original so she could submit it to Passport Canada with the application.

This makes no sense because the Canadian Consulate or Passport Canada could just as easily have obtained an original directly from the Registrar General of Ontario. They didn't need an original from ICE. Remember, they are the ones insisting I am Ricky Riess from Sudbury, not me. It's not like I was claiming I was Ricky Riess and they wanted me to prove it.

Moreover, the Consulate was aware ICE had the original of the Ricky Riess passport. Why didn't they just request ICE provide that? Or better yet, why didn't ICE just skip all this drama with the Canadian Consulate and bring me to the border with that passport? Oh yeah, because Passport Canada revoked the passport when they decided I wasn't Ricky Riess and the passport had been fraudulently obtained.

But consider this: Passport Canada had determined I wasn't Ricky Riess and I fraudulently obtained a Canadian passport in the identity of Ricky Riess, and yet they're accepting Ricky Riess's Ontario birth certificate as proof I am him. How does that make any sense at all? How is it none of these people realize this contradiction?

Eventually, I ran out of patience with Dextraze's refusal to commit to anything or to give direct responses. I told her if they're going to issue a travel document for me, in the name Ricky Riess, that's great, but if not then can they please just tell ICE, so I can move on from this.

Dextraze responded that they are not going to issue a travel document for Ricky Riess, that she knows I am not Ricky Riess, that she knows the passport ICE has is fraudulent and it has been revoked. She said, very directly, that she will not provide me any further assistance in obtaining a travel document.

I said, "Great, then can you let ICE know?" Dextraze changed the topic, asking about my conviction for false claim of US citizenship. She said I would not have been convicted of that if I was a US citizen.

I pointed out to her that that conviction was based solely on the Ricky Riess passport, which has since been proven to be fraudulent. I asked her if she has any evidence I am not a US citizen. She refused to repsond.