Posted on 04/06/2025 9:52:16 AM PDT by xxqqzz
A man from Harlem in New York City who has spent more than five decades in the United States was denied release on Friday after recently being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during a routine check-in.
Why It Matters Some attorneys and immigration groups have warned individuals either traveling out of the U.S. or entering that the federal government, due to the illegal immigration crackdown by the Trump administration, could potentially detain individuals—even those with visas or green cards, or students with legal standing to remain here.
Recent cases involving ICE detaining individuals that include students and parents have sparked discussion on the methods being employed by federal agents. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this week that the State Department has revoked more than 300 student visas and will continue deporting those engaging in antisemitism.
What To Know On March 25, ICE New York City arrested 59-year-old Robert Servio Panton pursuant to an outstanding warrant of removal.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials tell Newsweek that the current citizen of Jamaica violated the terms of his lawful admission when he was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY). He was sentenced to life in prison on May 25, 1994.
On August 11, 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons in Inez, Kentucky, released him to ICE Chicago which served him with a notice to appear and placed him into removal proceedings. On January 27, 2021, an immigration judge ordered Panton to be removed from the country.
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Drug dealer here illegally and ordered to be removed during the Biden admin. Hard to argue for or feel sorry about this one.
Free Medicare free Social Security probably since the day he came. Time for him to go home.
In fifty years he couldn’t have applied for citizenship?
Laziness is not an excuse for illegal immigration.
Would have been a tough application after that conviction 30 years ago.
There should be no fussin’ about this one, even from the libturds.
Illegal, drug dealer, released from life sentence. Now he’s going home.
And, that is better than he friggin’ deserves...
no tears for the drug dealer
AMF!
Would his home country have allowed drug pushing there?
That's that. He should have made enough to send back to Jamaica to live pretty well there. At the very least, he's no worse off.
About damned time.
Yeah, how much has he already cost taxpayers?
Should have been tossed back to Jamaica in 1994, never to enter the US again. Let him be THEIR problem, not ours.
So if I hold banks and stores for 50 years, I wouldn’t have to turn over the money when I get caught? These sob stories are getting really obnoxious and ignorant. Just because Kamala’s “White Dudes for the Jamaican got their keisters spanked in November it doesn’t make all of those losers, “victims.” Crybabies. Go throw a tantrum while sucking on a tampon.
Looks like the system is finally working. Deport this career criminal forthwith.
This is the biggest sob story Newsweak can come up with: A drug dealer with a life sentence who was released early with a deportation order years ago? The only question is why he was here for this long.
“New Yorker Who Has Been in US Over 50 Years Held by ICE, Faces Deportation...
A man from Harlem in New York City...”
Exactly!
Let the Dumocrats hang their hats on this one. I hope Bondi gets ahead of the game on this one.
He isn’t a “New York Man” nor is he “from Harlem”; Newsweek Nick needs to brush up on his reading comprehension. Near as I can tell, he’s a Jamaican foreign national. Heroin dealer. Boo hoo
So, if you have been a criminal for over 50 years, you should be left alone?
He came here., worked hard, raised a family, joined a church, didn’t get arrested, didn’t collect some kind of welfare, snap, SS, Medicaid or phony tax return?
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