Posted on 05/25/2023 12:30:45 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
WASHINGTON — The man accused of ramming a U-Haul truck into barriers near the White House earlier this week isn't a U.S. citizen, authorities said Wednesday.
Sai Varshith Kandula, a 19-year-old from suburban St. Louis, wore an orange jail-issued jumpsuit in his brief courtroom appearance — his first since the Monday incident — when prosecutors requested pre-trial detention.
A government prosecutor told the court that Kandula is not a citizen or lawful permanent resident. But later on Wednesday, a Department of Justice official clarified the open-court remarks and said Kandula does hold a green card for lawful, permanent U.S. residency.
The suspect's national origin wasn't mentioned in court.
In courtrooms across America, prosecutors and defense lawyers every day hash out charges against green card holders with deportation as a key bargaining chip. But under the circumstances of Monday night, immigration attorney Cori Alonso-Yoder said she can't foresee a scenario where Kandula would be offered any deal to remain in the U.S.
"Most likely, yes," he'll be deported if convicted, said Alonso-Yoder, who teaches law at George Washington University. "If he's convicted of those facts, then it's most likely a removable charge."
The suspect's loved ones will likely not face any repercussions from Monday night, no matter their immigration status. "It shouldn't have any impact on his family," said Alonso-Yoder. "He stands and falls on this own on this kind of charge. It doesn't open a door to any inquiry for all of his connection and their immigration status."
Kandula is accused of renting a U-Haul truck at Dulles International Airport before he crashed into a barrier on the north side of the White House at about 9:35 p.m. ET on Monday.
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Is that the one the FBI planted the nazi stuff on?
Three actually. None actually at the airport. But within taxi range.
Begs question, how did he pay?
Boy Howdy! That MAGA White Supremacist NAZI Redneck story sank quicker than the Bismark.
Now he is just a poor misunderstood Indian refugee here to excape oppression.
and maybe overthrow the government.
Unless the Stasi have decided he was just kidding, in which case, he is now free to roam about the country.
Probably Canadian.
“It doesn’t open a door to any inquiry for all of his connection and their immigration status.”
This country is in such trouble.
An illegal alien nationalist?
“Most likely, yes,” he’ll be deported if convicted,
Usually patsies don’t live long enough to be deported.
Allowing patsies to go home with what is likely a lump sum payment to be paid in his native currency is going to make recruiting patsies much easier.
Retirement benefits for patsies, as Yakov Smirnoff would say, “America, what a country!”
and he didn’t have bribe money for Biden or the incident would have been hushed over.
I’d give an insane Pakistani Nazi a chance.
He’d probably be no worse than Biden.
“Illegal immigrant white supremacist.”
The demand for white supremacy so outstrips the supply, the Feebs have had to offshore it to India.
“Yeah he would need a valid drivers license and a credit card.”
They hand them out at the border with the voter registration cards.
How long until the FBI starts making their agents of color bleach themselves white? Otherwise the outsourcing will only continue.
Sai Varshith Kandula
Big surprise!
Take him out to the back pasture and straighten him out...
Exactly.
They’ll just identify as white when they commit false flags.
Not a U.S. citizen, prosecutors say
Well that narrows it down to about 50 million people.
Democrats burn count sheets
Not white...
or supreme, either.
I eagerly await the apologies from all the propagandists claiming he was a white supremacist nazi MAGA Trump voter.
When I pointed out the FACT that he could only have voted for democrats because he was not 18 or a US citizen at the time of Trump’s election. The comment was deleted by the coward moderator.
Things are really getting bad over at the FBI. Having to hire foreigners to do terrorism that Americans won’t do.
He is quoted as admiring Hitler on an Indian website, so he’s not your type.
He is from India according to Indian papers so the US government’s secrecy is kind of pointless.
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