he can Skype his testimony, doesn't need to be here to do that
Posted on 11/30/2019 5:55:16 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A construction worker who became a witness in a federal workplace safety investigation after he was injured during the collapse of a new Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans was deported by immigration authorities Friday, his lawyers said.
The worker, Delmer Joel Ramirez Palma, had to scramble to stay alive while metal and debris rained down and parts of the 18-story structure pancaked around him and killed three of his colleagues on Oct. 12.
Mr. Ramirez Palma had raised concerns about problems with the construction with supervisors multiple times, according to his lawyers. After the building crumbled around him, he gave an on-air account to a Spanish-language news outlet and became a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the developers of the project and their construction firms, accusing them of using substandard materials and inadequate underpinnings to shore up the concrete floors.
On Oct. 14, two days after the collapse, Mr. Ramirez Palma, an immigrant from Honduras who was not authorized to remain in the country, was arrested while on a fishing trip and then detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
During his time in immigration detention, federal investigators examining what happened at the site of the $85 million hotel project, just steps from the city’s French Quarter, interviewed him on three occasions.
But even as one arm of the federal government sought his help, another pressed ahead with his deportation, in a move that New Orleans officials, immigration advocates and labor lawyers said could have a chilling effect on immigrant workers who encounter safety violations and could also hamper the investigation into the Hard Rock Hotel collapse.
“We must not deter victims and witnesses of construction catastrophes from coming forward,” the New Orleans City Council president, Helena Moreno, and vice president, Jason Williams, said in a statement this week.
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Deport him
AND
Put senior management in jail.
The federal government is spending nearly $1 trillion more than it takes in each year, and yet, they’re too daft to defer somebody’s deportation until he’s done testifying in a court case in which he’s a material witness???
Combined PING! and DANG!
It’s funny who gets the fast-track boot...and no boot at all.
How about deporting senior management to an island where they cannot harm other people, and deferring the deportation of the material witness until he’s done?
“We must not deter victims and witnesses of construction catastrophes from coming forward,” the New Orleans City Council president, Helena Moreno, and vice president, Jason Williams, said in a statement this week.
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Don’t the taxpayers pay a fortune for inspectors?
Could be that construction management paid OSHA inspectors enough that they influenced the kind people at ICE to remove a potential problem. Just sayin’....winky face icon goes here.
he can Skype his testimony, doesn't need to be here to do that
Everything in this story is irrelevant. Either you have a proper visa to be in the USA or you don’t. Nothing else matters. This guy needs to go home and get the correct visa if he cannot stand living in his home country, Honduras.
Arrest the employers for employing illegal aliens.
Well, they shoulda been inspecting earlier, I guess.
“Could be that construction management paid OSHA inspectors enough that they influenced the kind people at ICE to remove a potential problem. Just sayin’....winky face icon goes here.”
Not really. The Engineers hired by the lawyers will find out what really happened. The Engineers will be of the plaintiffs and those sued. The truth will be reveled in the end.
As a material witness this man should not have been deported until testimony and then deported.
What’s really sad is the idiots that buy into this story concocted by his lawyer. THINK PEOPLE!
Exactly. If not arrest tese asshole who hired this puke, then FINE the idiots and use it to fund the wall
They can get his testimony from Honduras. I recall a Department of Labor case from decades ago where an employer short-changed his employees. Depositions were taken in the employees’ home country, restitution was made, and checks were sent to the employees who were short-changed.
[What’s really sad is the idiots that buy into this story concocted by his lawyer. THINK PEOPLE!]
“...Mr. Ramirez Palma, an immigrant from Honduras...”
wrong!!! Palme was not an immigrant. He is an “illegal alien.” If he wa an immigrant he would be legally in the US and in most cases would have a green card. Illegal aliens are not immigrants. The open border people have pushed the word immigrant to describe illegals so long, and so frequently that it has taken hold. But it is wrong.
I’m aware of that, and his arse should be deported as soon as he is done with his part in this case. But he was deported prior to that.
On Oct. 14, two days after the collapse, Mr. Ramirez Palma, an immigrant from Honduras who was not authorized to remain in the country, was arrested while on a fishing trip and then detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
He's allegedly injured yet he goes on a fishing trip 2 days after his alleged injury? This seems a bit odd.
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