Posted on 01/22/2018 1:44:11 PM PST by Innovative
Lukasz Niec was 5 years old when his parents brought him and his sister to the United States from Poland. With two suitcases in tow, his parents — both doctors — left behind a country on the verge of social turmoil. It was 1979, about two years before the country’s authoritarian communist government declared martial law.
Niec received a temporary green card and, in 1989, became a lawful permanent resident. He grew up in Michigan, went to medical school, became a doctor, and raised a daughter and stepdaughter.
But on Tuesday morning, immigration authorities arrested Niec at his home, just after he had sent his 12-year-old stepdaughter off to school. Niec, a physician specializing in internal medicine at Bronson Healthcare Group in Kalamazoo, Mich., has been detained in a county jail ever since, awaiting a bond hearing and possible deportation.
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The only reason given in the article was that ICE picked him up as an alien.
He came to the US with his parents, but the point is that the parents and he, as a child, all came here legally, the US let them in. They did not sneak across the border.
So it is terrible that ICE would arrest him.
I think the article is trying to equate this serious bungle by ICE with their legitimate activities of deporting real illegals, who really came to the US illegally.
“This could be a case of saboteurs (Democrats, libs) within ICE trying to make the Trump administration look like idiots.”
I think you probably hit the nail on the head.
I don’t know all the facts, but it seems worse crimes have been committed by illegals. I wonder if some people in charge at DHS just want to prove they’re not racists?
He was a kid. I doubt it came up in any conversations with his parents about this as he got older, so he probably had no point of reference for his own situation. How did he get his Green Card? That's a legal process. This seems to potentially be a BS story pushed by the media. I must be a racist because I'm siding with him because he is a white Polish guy instead of an African. Oh wait! I just remembered I'm not white either and spent 10 years and $15K in legal fees to get my Green Card!
Poland is not a s__thole.
If the Compost turned him in, it would be a racist set-up.
These sob stories about some seemingly upright illegal wrongfully picked up by ICE for deportation will be in the WP and every other major DemocRAT news source until Congress folds and grants unconditional amnesty to every past and future border jumper illegal.
We conservatives have to suck it up and keep on telling Congress and Pres. Trump we want the election promises of the wall, no amnesty and real border control kept.
A green card gives assurance that the holder can return to country of origin to pick up residence if he so desires.
So, either he has a green card, in which case this is ridiculous, or he "had" a green card and let it expire, in which case it isn't.
A green card gives assurance that the holder can return to country of origin to pick up residence if he so desires.A green card gives legal residence in the States without having to renege on his original citizenship thereby having the chance to return to his country of origin. He is getting the best of both worlds. Once an immigrant accepts US citizenship he is no longer welcome to return to his country of origin.
He was 3 when he arrived in America. His parents became US citizens. If he was underage at that time, he may have had citizenship imputed. He can’t find the documents.
Buried in the article...
Because Niec was convicted of two crimes involving “moral turpitude,” stemming from two separate incidents, he is subject to removal, immigration authorities wrote in the notice to appear, citing the Immigration and Nationality Act.
You posted the article, so of course you know it’s the Washington Post.
Two independent sources are needed to find the truth about the Green Card.
Agreed, its on him for not having followed through with citizenship.
On the one hand, the law should be applied indiscriminately, as that is how to fairly apply it. On the other hand, there are many more threatening illegals to be dealt with than a Polish doctor who has been here 40 years. This does make one wonder about the priorities (or goals) of the ICE folks involved. But maybe there is also more to the story?
He does seem to have a lot of strikes against him albeit two of them look like when he was a teenager. How about the later ones when he was an adult? I am of the belief that here on FR, we ourselves and in our immediate circle of friends and relatives, we wouldn’t be able to come up with any charges like those.
I know just the papers they were going to file for because my friend, who married a Polish woman, in Poland around 1979 and after a few years living first in England to finish his doctorate at Oxford, then in Belgium, applied to bring his wife to the U.S. It took 18 months and not so few hundreds of dollars, even then, to make all legal.
After that, it took her 7 years to apply for her citizenship, plus more money and citizenship classes, so she could pass her test!
“”Just leave and come back through Mexico.””
We had neighbors in CA from Belfast. They told us they really considered doing just what you suggest because of the hard time and years it took them to obtain permission to enter the U. S. We laughed but they didn’t think it was funny - they were quite serious. They had waited so long they believed it would never happen and went ahead and bought a home in Belfast. Got the approval soon after!!
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