Posted on 12/09/2025 5:34:52 AM PST by TheDon
A routine green card interview in Los Angeles ended with federal immigration agents detaining a 39-year-old applicant, according to his wife, who says the encounter halted their effort to secure his permanent residency.
Xelena Diaz and her husband, Taeha Hwang, arrived at a downtown Los Angeles federal building on Oct. 29 expecting a routine appointment. The pair married earlier this year and believed their immigration meeting would be, in Diaz’s words, “quick and easy.” Instead, Hwang was taken into ICE custody after officials determined he was in the country without proper documentation.
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Hwang, who was born in Korea and brought to the United States at three months old, is now being held at the Adelanto ICE Detention Center as he awaits potential release on bond. Diaz said her husband unknowingly missed an immigration court date in May 2024 regarding a prior conditional visa because he had changed addresses and never received the notices.
The Department of Homeland Security, in a statement provided to KTLA, said Hwang “illegally overstayed his F-1 student visa, ignored a notice to appear before an immigration judge, broke the laws of this country, and was issued a final order for removal from an immigration judge over a year ago.” DHS said Hwang will remain in ICE custody while immigration proceedings continue.
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What do you think? Should we give him a break?
More ICE please!
Yes. just put some ICE on it!
Keep your paperwork in order, people!
EXACTly. And why, if he was 3 months old when he arrived, did he qualify for a student visa?
Another success story.
Some would like each alien cherry picked based on productivity, family etc. The word illegal still plays into anyone here illegally. My neighbors son just married a Mexican girl who earned her citizenship and knows more about the history of the US than most natural born citizens. Loves the US, Trump and the freedoms she now has to make her way.
However,a couple of years ago we went to Korea to visit her family and I must say that the hoops through which I had to jump getting a visa (the website was incredibly difficult for me) and while I was there were incredible. But I jumped through them and unless I'm mistaken I didn't violate any of their laws while I was there.
As I tell my girlfriend we need *more* Koreans and *more* Japanese immigrating here and *fewer* Mexicans...Guatemalans...Somalis...Paskistanis,etc!
Sounds like someone didn’t get more than one notice.
Sounds like someone didn’t bother to pay attention to their situation.
Sounds like someone didn’t bother to give a crap if they followed the rules or not, since no one else was.
Sounds like someone is going to start living the ‘long-distance’ relationship.
In an operation as large as the one now underway there are bound to be borderline cases and even mistakes made. But compare that to the colossal mistake of letting in 30 million illegal aliens who range from opportunists to outright criminals looking to do harm.
It’s going to be difficult for a few legitimate immigrants but surely by now everyone who thinks they may face a challenge to what they believe to be legal status will be on their guard to check their actual status, this is perhaps the third case I’ve read about where somebody claims not to have received notice of past court appearances required. Those who could in theory be in such a position probably need to check everything out and not walk into a situation like this one.
I suspect Xelena Diaz is an anchor baby and should also be deported. It’s a marriage of convenience.
All illegal aliens must be removed from the USA, by any means necessary, no exceptions.
It WAS quick and easy.
Baloney. Post office forwards mail if you provide new address. He had no intention of ever going to hearings.
More ICE indeed
Once again, the left - and the media (apologies for being redundant) - would ignore the law in their interests.
“However,a couple of years ago we went to Korea to visit her family and I must say that the hoops through which I had to jump getting a visa (the website was incredibly difficult for me) and while I was there were incredible. But I jumped through them and unless I’m mistaken I didn’t violate any of their laws while I was there.”
Korea doesn’t require a visa for short term visits.
What is not reported, is many of these “sob stories” are resolved in reasonable ways.
Here’s what they should do, and I’m not kidding. Go to Korea, both of them. Apply for his documentation at the nearest U. S. embassy. Get documents, come back. Easy peasy. Might it take months or longer? Sure, but they’re in a committed marriage so it shouldn’t be too much of a burden, should it? I posted a few days ago about a woman I knew who married an illegal alien and that’s exactly what they did (Mexico, not Korea). She lived in Mexico for 6 months during the process. Now he’s legal and everybody is happy.
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