Posted on 01/22/2018 1:44:11 PM PST by Innovative
Lukasz Niec was 5 years old when his parents brought him and his sister to the United States from Poland. With two suitcases in tow, his parents — both doctors — left behind a country on the verge of social turmoil. It was 1979, about two years before the country’s authoritarian communist government declared martial law.
Niec received a temporary green card and, in 1989, became a lawful permanent resident. He grew up in Michigan, went to medical school, became a doctor, and raised a daughter and stepdaughter.
But on Tuesday morning, immigration authorities arrested Niec at his home, just after he had sent his 12-year-old stepdaughter off to school. Niec, a physician specializing in internal medicine at Bronson Healthcare Group in Kalamazoo, Mich., has been detained in a county jail ever since, awaiting a bond hearing and possible deportation.
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His parents were probably considered refugees from a communist country and the US allowed them into the country legally.
You cannot equate this with people who come to the US illegally, sneaking across the border.
I don’t think green cards are indefinite. He should have done the follow-up to be here legally.
Either our immigration laws mean something, or they do not.
In a related story a group of bank robbers are sueing the US Government so their ‘innocent’ children can ‘keep the loot’....
Schumer said if the thieves kids vote democrat he’ll support their wish to keep our money.
He would have qualified for the Immigration Reform Act of 1986.. Not going to cry any tears for people who are lax and don’t take care of their details. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Reform_and_Control_Act_of_1986
The Washington COMpost had to look long and hard to find this guy! And ICE didn’t find him for 40 years, or rather probably felt it unnecessary. *Rolleyes*
Having a green card means he is here legally. Period.
“According to his “notice to appear” from the Department of Homeland Security, Niec’s detention stems from two misdemeanor convictions from 26 years ago. In January 1992, Niec was convicted of malicious destruction of property under $100.”
BURIED in the article because the Compost wants to taste your tears of sympathy..
WaPo doesn’t let me read the article — but a “green card” allows one to be a permanent resident in the USA. Something is missing.
Did he not renew it when required? Did he break a law which violated his residency permit?
Behind paywall, so I can’t see the real reason they picked him up.
Summary, please.
Oh, but the braindeadtrust of the compost will
Sorta along the lines of the “homeless” “women and children hurt most” BS
Why no mention of Kate Steinle et al?
“I don’t think green cards are indefinite.”
No, my Canadian GF is a green-card holder. It’s only for 10 years. Normally, people go to citizenship before it expires but I do know some green-card holders who have been here 30 years and they still are green-card holders. All they do is keep renewing. Their decision..
Because Niec was convicted of two crimes involving “moral turpitude,” stemming from two separate incidents, he is subject to removal, immigration authorities wrote in the notice to appear, citing the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Both of the offenses took place when he was a teenager. He associated himself “with some bad people” his sister said. The first of the incidents involved an altercation with a driver after a car crash, Niec’s sister said. He was one of multiple teenagers in the car at the time.
The second of those convictions was eventually expunged from his criminal record, his sister said, as part of a guilty plea through Michigan’s Holmes Youthful Trainee Act, a program intended to help young offenders avoid the stigma of a criminal conviction. But even though the crime was scrubbed off his public record, it can still be used against him for removal from the country, his sister said.
According to Kalamazoo County court records cited by MLive, Niec also pleaded guilty in 2008 to operating impaired by liquor. After he completed probation, the conviction was set aside, the plea withdrawn and the case dismissed. He was also charged with domestic violence in 2013 and a jury found him not guilty after a trial, MLive reported.
What did he do to get on the ICE Radar ?
This could be a case of saboteurs (Democrats, libs) within ICE trying to make the Trump administration look like idiots.
Fake News.
I suspect the Compost turned him in.
Just so they can make a Fake News story out this.
FTFA: According to his “notice to appear” from the Department of Homeland Security, Niec’s detention stems from two misdemeanor convictions from 26 years ago. In January 1992, Niec was convicted of malicious destruction of property under $100. In April of that year, he was convicted of receiving and concealing stolen property over $100 and a financial transaction device. Because Niec was convicted of two crimes involving “moral turpitude,” stemming from two separate incidents, he is subject to removal, immigration authorities wrote in the notice to appear, citing the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Just leave and come back through Mexico.
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