His parents were probably considered refugees from a communist country and the US allowed them into the country legally.
You cannot equate this with people who come to the US illegally, sneaking across the border.
I don’t think green cards are indefinite. He should have done the follow-up to be here legally.
Either our immigration laws mean something, or they do not.
In a related story a group of bank robbers are sueing the US Government so their ‘innocent’ children can ‘keep the loot’....
Schumer said if the thieves kids vote democrat he’ll support their wish to keep our money.
He would have qualified for the Immigration Reform Act of 1986.. Not going to cry any tears for people who are lax and don’t take care of their details. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Reform_and_Control_Act_of_1986
The Washington COMpost had to look long and hard to find this guy! And ICE didn’t find him for 40 years, or rather probably felt it unnecessary. *Rolleyes*
“According to his “notice to appear” from the Department of Homeland Security, Niec’s detention stems from two misdemeanor convictions from 26 years ago. In January 1992, Niec was convicted of malicious destruction of property under $100.”
BURIED in the article because the Compost wants to taste your tears of sympathy..
WaPo doesn’t let me read the article — but a “green card” allows one to be a permanent resident in the USA. Something is missing.
Did he not renew it when required? Did he break a law which violated his residency permit?
Behind paywall, so I can’t see the real reason they picked him up.
Summary, please.
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.
Both of the offenses took place when he was a teenager. He associated himself “with some bad people” his sister said. The first of the incidents involved an altercation with a driver after a car crash, Niec’s sister said. He was one of multiple teenagers in the car at the time.
The second of those convictions was eventually expunged from his criminal record, his sister said, as part of a guilty plea through Michigan’s Holmes Youthful Trainee Act, a program intended to help young offenders avoid the stigma of a criminal conviction. But even though the crime was scrubbed off his public record, it can still be used against him for removal from the country, his sister said.
According to Kalamazoo County court records cited by MLive, Niec also pleaded guilty in 2008 to operating impaired by liquor. After he completed probation, the conviction was set aside, the plea withdrawn and the case dismissed. He was also charged with domestic violence in 2013 and a jury found him not guilty after a trial, MLive reported.
What did he do to get on the ICE Radar ?
This could be a case of saboteurs (Democrats, libs) within ICE trying to make the Trump administration look like idiots.
Fake News.
FTFA: According to his “notice to appear” from the Department of Homeland Security, Niec’s detention stems from two misdemeanor convictions from 26 years ago. In January 1992, Niec was convicted of malicious destruction of property under $100. In April of that year, he was convicted of receiving and concealing stolen property over $100 and a financial transaction device. 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.
Just leave and come back through Mexico.
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.
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!