Posted on 05/22/2025 6:13:08 AM PDT by Jessarah
A Danish man living in Mississippi for a dozen years has been imprisoned in Louisiana for more than a month after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers took him into custody because of a “paperwork miscommunication” during his effort to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, his wife says..........................
......For years, Kasper went through the process of trying to become a U.S. citizen, and Savannah Eriksen – now homeschooling their children and pregnant with their fifth baby, due in August – said her husband’s move toward citizenship appeared to be on track. He received notice last September that his naturalization application was being reviewed, and records from the U.S. government raised no questions about his paperwork, Savannah said.
Kasper and Savannah Eriksen went to Memphis, Tennessee, on April 15 so he could be interviewed about naturalization, and she said they were met by ICE agents.
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Another issue to watch for is that many who are working in our immigration system are sympathetic to the millions of illegals who are here. If shortcuts were taken in order to supply this man with a Green Card, it may be that the Green Card was granted without proper authority.
Imagine that the article stated, "The man had a Social Security number". None of us would be convinced that this makes him eligible to be here or stay here.
True and every article about this refers to a “paperwork miscommunication from 2015” without any further description of what the issue is. Before condemning ICE or assuming that this was a government mistake, I will await further information. So far, all I can be sure of is a slick p.r. campaign on behalf of a non-citizen detainee.
I don’t know why he is being detained except for the miscommunication in 2015. Immigration authorities had never alerted him to something being wrong until he was arrested. This guy is a Christian and MAGA supporter. His wife is getting all kinds of hate online because they are saying its Karma. She had to take her social media down because it was getting so bad. ICE can screw up, and I think they did in this case.
When you come here as the spouse of an American citizen, there are some conditions on your green card.
You then get a notice to file a form by a set deadline to have those conditions removed.
Immigrants know they need to do this.
Immigration has always been pretty tough on enforcing the rules. For example, they will question you very aggressively to see if you married someone just to get into the country.
Don’t know what this guy did or didn’t do, but it certainly sounds like he failed to file on time and then let it go for many years.
From illegal to naturalized?!?
I am not disagreeing with you, only saying that the news articles fail to describe the “paperwork miscommunication”. I would like to know what that was before reaching my own opinion. I am sure that quite a fewpro-MAGA family men have been deported. To me, the issue is simply: legal vs. not legal. Nothing more and less than that. If he has been wrongly detained, then somebody should explain exactly what the circumstances were and not leave it to the readers to take on faith that his status was legal.
Kasper immigrated to the U.S. in 2013
read the article he legally immigrated...
read the article he legally immigrated...
He is here LEGALLY.
From the wife on the Go Fund Me page:
On April 15, 2025, we headed to Memphis for his final interview where we were met by ICE agents and Kasper was detained for paperwork miscommunication in 2015. We were not notified of this at any point over the years nor did it ever show up in his USCIS portal or any of our previous interviews/appointments. He has been detained and is being held in an ICE facility in Louisiana for over a month now. What could have been corrected with paperwork, has resulted in a month long detention of my husband and a devastating situation for our children and myself as well as my high risk pregnancy.
Look, I’m sorry for their trouble and do not mean to be argumentative but I do guarantee that many other deportees also claim that they were doing everything right and that there was just a paperwork error. Certainly, I am not surprised that his wife take this position. He has lawyered up and I guess we will find out the truth as the situation makes its way through the courts.
Then what’s the issue?
There should be no issue.
He was “detained for paperwork miscommunication in 2015. We were not notified of this at any point over the years nor did it ever show up in his USCIS portal or any of our previous interviews/appointments. He has been detained and is being held in an ICE facility in Louisiana for over a month now. What could have been corrected with paperwork, has resulted in a month long detention..”
Paperwork miscommunication can easily happen. For example, in Danish, you don’t say “I will be staying at......”, you say, “I will be living at.....”, even though you are staying for just a couple of weeks somewhere. That does not translate well, and I know many Danes who use “living” to mean “staying”. That is not what happened here, but it’s an example of how things can get murky when filling out a form. Or misinterpreting what someone is saying.
Can you cite anything in your defense?
It reads very specifically to me, that when his work visa ran out, he ignored the instructions from Obama's White Hut.
Maybe you should actually read the article ... gosh gosh lofl ...
"Kasper immigrated to the U.S. in 2013 and got work as a welder – a job he has held steadily since then. He and Savannah married in 2014 and settled outside Starkville in the tiny town of Sturgis, soon starting a family.“Kasper was detained for a paperwork miscommunication from 2015, and I was sent home with no explanation and no idea where my husband had been transported,” Savannah Eriksen said in a statement she released late Monday to Mississippi Today."
Gosh you sure missed some exciting stuff.
I'm sure you have supported FreeRepublic with monthlies in that interval.
And somehow this tickled your fancy because you know some Kanker?
Krijg toch de pest.
But something that couldn’t be straightened out for a month?!?
It’s worth it to hire an immigration lawyer. The process goes very quickly.
“It takes a long time...and lots of money. This was a mess up by ICE.”
1. ICE is not involved in the process until an order to e deported is issued to them.
2. He screwed up by allowing his 2-year conditional green card to expire.
“He came illegally period. “
He came here legally but let his green card expire.
“Stop going after people who are trying, ICE! “
Get educated.
ICE does not issue deportation orders.
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