An Irish woman who has lived legally in the US for four decades has been detained by immigration officials for the last week because of a criminal record dating back almost 20 years.
Cliona Ward, 54, was detained at San Francisco airport on 21 April after returning from Ireland to visit her sick father and is being held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facility in Tacoma, Washington.
Ward holds a green card but has convictions for drug possession from 2007 and 2008, which she believed had been expunged, her family said.
Catholics are not considered white to the white supremacist
Considering the US is going back to the 1800s, no better time to start treating the Irish like shit again.
MAGA will decide they want to deport Irish-Americans. Ireland will respond by saying they don’t let people claim residency that many generations back. MAGA will piss and moan. Eventually they will make a deal with the UK government. The UK government will build a large prison camp in Northern Ireland, right near the border with the Republic of Ireland. Irish Americans will be banished to the camp, in direct line of site from ROI land, until such time as ROI willingly accepts them in as refugees.
Honestly sign me up. I would like nothing more than to ditch this sinking ship.
The Irish were not considered white until around 1930 or so. When the demographic shifts in the US required we be white in order to stave off the dreaded brown folk. The old bigot who lived next door to me growing up called me a tater tot until her dying day. I remember my grandfather talking about how one day he had bankers basically offering him a loan. Up until that point he was treated like shit at the bank.
Just go to http://www.rsdb.org/search?q=Irish
The old bigot who lived next door to me growing up called me a tater tot
Prick. I heard two young American girls refer to the Irish as potatoes, in Dublin. They thought nobody could hear them then were properly embarrassed when they saw me.
An I remember that one. It’s good. I’ll see your solid paddywhackery and raise you this (which I honestly pissed myself laughing at the first time I saw it).
The English were directly responsible for killing a million Irish people. They get hate for it, but not enough.
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“I bet she has tattoos!”
I’d be willing to bet the universal common denominator for anyone who isn’t brown is simply that they’re antifascist.
Just wait until they figure out where Kash Patel is “really” from. Bet you the crocodile tears will run like rivers.
No, it’s ok. He’s one of the good ones. /s
Wait… why would they detain her let alone deport? She has legal residency.
Well it’s simple really—because the fascists decree it to be so.
This makes residency permits completely worthless. Greencard holders other visa holders can all just be randomly detained when traveling.
US Citizens have been getting deported, we’re far past that already.
These were all minors of deported parents no? At least there’s a bad reason for it.
Tbf this was also a bad reason to detain this woman. They’ll expand it to native-born American criminals, and then “”“criminals.”“”
I don’t remember reading that rule in the constitution…
There should be a rule that you can’t deport the legal guardian of a US citizen for that matter. All I’m saying is that they have an excuse for deporting them, even if it’s a bad one. I don’t understand the excuse for this case. Is there any?
Yes.
Just don’t do any crimes.
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Yes, that’s the whole idea
They have quotas to fill. Makes sense for them to pick these low-hanging fruits.
They’ve also “deported” (exiled is a better word) actual citizens. Someone on a green card has less protection than that.
If she believed the drug charges were expunged and they were not, then she likely filled out the wrong immigration form and was granted residency because she “lied” on a government immigration document.
With a drug charge she very likely would not have been approved for residency. But this also means it’s an oversight by USCIS, because the applicants criminal history should have been reviewed at the time of her application.
Something isn’t adding up here.
There was a story a couple weeks ago about another person getting deported on expunged charges. I’m guessing some agencies still keep records after expungement (I’ve heard they still show up when getting security clearance), and they’re using that data.
I have a close friend from Venezuela, who was a warded citizenship on December, so she thinks she’s safe. I’m keeping quiet, because I don’t want to scare her, but Venezuelans, who used to enjoy a special immigration privileges in America because their country was being led by a rogue dictator, has become one of the most demonized groups in America.
The MAGA Nazis don’t respect anything, and having a green card or even citizenship isn’t going to save anyone. They want to deport people who were actually BORN here, they definitely want to kick out every person that was born elsewhere.
It would be hilarious to see this regime shooting itself in both feet before shooting itself in the head, if this weren’t some route to a full-blown ‘eMerGENcy’ which they can then use to deactivate democracy all together.
US is a hostile nation.
C’mon let this establish precedent so I can get ‘deported’ to the home country after 150 years.
Also, why did she get sent across the country from San Fran to the SeaTac area? Is Washington acting like the Louisiana of the West Coast, what the fuck?
Where exactly are you coming up with the idea that San Francisco California and Tacoma Washington are “across the country” from one another?
The 800 miles of separation North-South.
Um, Seattle and SF are on the same coast…maybe there’s just a bigger concentration camp set up there
