Posted on 02/08/2018 8:52:42 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
HAVERHILL On Monday, Jacob Leonce, a 45-year old man originally from St. Lucia who has lived in the city for close to a decade, was deported back to the Caribbean Island from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Burlington.
Leonce, a married father of two sons who were born in Haverhill, was first notified in December by immigration authorities that renewal of his work visa was being denied and that he would be deported in February.
Since December, local activists, congregants at Leonce's church and state legislators have worked to try and keep Leonce in Massachusetts. But their efforts turned out to be for naught, as Leonce was sent back to his home nation Monday after being held over the weekend at ICE's Burlington facility, the same place his work visa was denied a renewal.
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Go Trump!
In ten years, wouldn’t it be possible to secure citizenship ?
Big time!
4 less illegals on Welfare, Food Stamps and FREE Medical.
There are certainly worse places to be deported to.
If the article is on the level, then we ought to give guys like this a green card in return for every MS-13 gang banger deported.
Just think how much easier he would have it if he’d applied for LEGAL citizenship...But NOOOOO...
As I said in response to the third post on a similar topic today, the media have their marching orders. This one makes four stories, all from different countries, and all presented as sympathetic criminals:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3630454/posts
Maria Barrancas . . . was in a country she hardly remembered (Mexico), having left for the U.S. 32 years ago at age 15.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3630433/posts?page=1
a Kansas father of three who has lived in the U.S. for three decades . . . Jamal, who is from Bangladesh, was about to take his daughter to school on Jan. 24 when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials showed up on his front lawn in Lawrence, Kansas, and arrested him.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3630444/posts
With nothing but the clothes on his back and less than $300 in his pocket, Amer Adi was put on a plane and deported to Jordan, the country he left 39 years ago to pursue his American dream.
Poor innocent illegal finally receiving justice seems to be the news theme for today, personalized to one sympathetic criminal on the way out. The media propaganda arm of the Democrat Party must have received their marching orders from Obama, Pelosi, and Hillary. We will see if this plays as well with real Americans as it did with their focus groups when they were planning. My guess? It will fail like everything else that Americas enemies have tried since the 2016 Presidential Election turned out in Americas favor.
Says the lawyer trying to keep him in the country. I don't really believe it. This is probably what the guy says, with no correspondence or proof of it. Haverhill is next to Lawrence and Lowell, and I am pretty sure has a large transient population composed of a lot of people who identify with this guy.
I understand your point, but I find it extremely hard to believe he couldn't find legal help to keep in in the USA at some point in the last ten years ESPECIALLY if he had standing that would allow him to do so.
Extremely hard.
Those towns are chock full of people who would help him and people like him, and a good number of them are most likely on state and town payrolls. Extremely leftist areas, IMO.
I think there is eventually going to be some kind of political deal made regarding illegals that many of us won't like, but if it is done in exchange for a wall and real immigration REFORM, I think it might be worth it.
I have heard a lot of stories of immigrants being ripped off by their lawyers. Im not sure the state bar associations are policing this very well because the victims probably dont file complaints that would highlight their status, even where the lawyers neglect or incompetence was the cause an immigrant or visa holder went from legal to illegal. I live in a relatively small California city and our main drag has lots of hole-in-the-wall offices advertising immigration legal help. Some look pretty sketchy.
Lawrence isnt even part of the US anymore.
Who wouldn’t want a free ticket to the beaches and waters of St. Lucia?
I know, right? It’s not exactly Siberia. lol
Hahaha. Get OUT!!!
Exactimundo !
Ah...you sound like you know. You know what I am saying...I find it hard to believe there aren’t lawyers who could have helped, but maybe the guy meant to say there weren’t lawyers who could help him at a price he was willing to pay.
That is a bit of an important distinction. If I had to pay money for a lawyer to help me stay in the USA and not be sent back to St. Lucia or worse, I would forgo my big LCD television and new car, buying a small one and a used car instead so that I could pay a lawyer.
There is a big difference between being a green card holder and being illegal.
If you are illegal, well...yes. You don’t go to the police.
If you are a valid green card holder, you don’t let your visa expire. You get a lawyer before that happens...long before it happens.
Once you let it expire, you have only yourself to blame.
Exactimundo !
a green card is for Permanent Residents. All rights of citizenship except voting are extended to Permanent Residents. This is an ages old program.
Visas are temporary and overstays have always been a problem. The State Department does a very poor job monitoring them. There are several types: for students, visitors, business, skill workers, etc. But they all have an expiration date.
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