ICE detains a Polish doctor and green-card holder who has lived in the U.S. for nearly 40 years

Washington Post ^ | Jan. 22, 2018 | Samantha Schmidt

[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.

[bmwcyle]

No, it looks to me he was too cheap, lazy, or just did not want to be a citizen. BYE

[Parmy]

Then they need to be sent back to the hellholes they come from if they have no desire to become citizens.

Refer to WW2. Take a look at the names on the memorials. Strange names from many foreign countries. Their parents left the 'old country' to better themselves and their offspring. And, when the time came their sons went off to fight for the U.S., as citizens, in the same lands that their parents came from.

That mindset doesn't exist with these green card holders that you love so much.

I guess there are none so blind than those who will not see.

[Parmy]

One other addendum. From 1924 to 1964 there was almost no legal immigration into the U.S. In fact, near the turn of the previous century Theodore Roosevelt was writing about the lack of assimilation by the legal immigrants that had been allowed into the U.S. up to that time.