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After fight to stay, Haverhill man deported St. Lucia
Eagle-Tribune (North Andover, MA) ^ | February 7, 2018 | by Peter Francis

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: border; deportation; illegalalien; immigration; invasion
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1 posted on 02/08/2018 8:52:42 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Go Trump!


2 posted on 02/08/2018 8:55:21 AM PST by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In ten years, wouldn’t it be possible to secure citizenship ?


3 posted on 02/08/2018 8:59:02 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Big time!

4 less illegals on Welfare, Food Stamps and FREE Medical.


4 posted on 02/08/2018 8:59:11 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There are certainly worse places to be deported to.


5 posted on 02/08/2018 9:00:00 AM PST by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Let's not make the same mistake the libtards do and just assume this guy was a criminal. From the scant info in the article, it sounds like he at least tried to play by the rules and got screwed over by lawyers.

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.

6 posted on 02/08/2018 9:03:49 AM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just think how much easier he would have it if he’d applied for LEGAL citizenship...But NOOOOO...


7 posted on 02/08/2018 9:04:04 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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 America’s enemies have tried since the 2016 Presidential Election turned out in America’s favor.


8 posted on 02/08/2018 9:13:05 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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...Haverhill Attorney Paul Magliochetti, whose law firm had been working to keep Leonce in the United States, said Tuesday Leonce had dealt with attorneys since immigrating to the United States in 1999, none of whom provided him with the proper assistance in becoming a legal citizen..."

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.

9 posted on 02/08/2018 9:15:57 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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I have heard a lot of stories of immigrants being ripped off by their lawyers. I’m not sure the state bar associations are policing this very well because the victims probably don’t file complaints that would highlight their status, even where the lawyer’s 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.


10 posted on 02/08/2018 9:19:15 AM PST by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: rlmorel

Lawrence isn’t even part of the US anymore.


11 posted on 02/08/2018 9:27:32 AM PST by cp124 (FUGOPe)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

12 posted on 02/08/2018 9:28:04 AM PST by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who wouldn’t want a free ticket to the beaches and waters of St. Lucia?


13 posted on 02/08/2018 9:29:05 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: jalisco555

I know, right? It’s not exactly Siberia. lol


14 posted on 02/08/2018 9:31:38 AM PST by V_TWIN (oks like)
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To: V_TWIN

Hahaha. Get OUT!!!


15 posted on 02/08/2018 9:44:57 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Exactimundo !


16 posted on 02/08/2018 9:45:42 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true)
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To: cp124

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.


17 posted on 02/08/2018 9:50:50 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: caseinpoint

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.


18 posted on 02/08/2018 9:53:56 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Exactimundo !


19 posted on 02/08/2018 9:54:41 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true)
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To: rlmorel

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.


20 posted on 02/08/2018 10:05:48 AM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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