Sending someone from a functional state to Texas should be barred under the 8th amendment.
The Trump administration has vowed to conduct mass deportations, starting with immigrants charged with crimes. But Amaral is an example of ICE apparently targeting non-criminals as well.
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By ICE they mean the Gestapo.
Waffen ICE-ICE
Okay, before anyone jumps down my throat, I’m not defending this. It’s awful and shouldn’t happen.
That being said, reading the headline, I first got the impression that this was a case of them arresting and transporting a citizen. People should make sure to read the article.
Yeah, I mean it’s a tough spot. Neither party has done much to reform the system for legal immigration. That means we have plenty of illegal immigrants that are meaningful contributors to our society. But technically they are still illegal. So the poloticians of the past left the door open for what trump is doing. Trump is to blame for doing it, but the rest are to blame for leaving things in such a vulnerable state.
The article literally says people like him didn’t go unpunished in the past, they just get released on bond rather than taken away from their family and imprisoned.
Because all he did was overstay a tourist visa.
The amount of time i spent trying to figure out what mass was…
Force divided by acceleration
Man, thats heartbreaking. I get it. He broke the law, but the bond system is there for exactly these types of cases. Instead, they’ll count this hard working family man in the number of “criminals” they’ve expelled from the country.
How do you know he broke the law exactly?
He did not break the law. That’s why there’s an article about him.
Entered the country legally and had current paperwork.
But the racists at ICE don’t care. They see brown and freak the duck out.
I get it. He broke the law,
No he didn’t. He overstayed his visa. Some might think that’s pedantic, but I believe it’s an important distinction
But overstaying the visa is breaking the law.
On the same level as speeding. I assume you don’t want everyone who gets caught speeding arrested.
Yes. But, again, I think it’s important to make the distinction. Overstaying a valid visa is like the bottom tier of migrant “crimes” we should give a shit about.
This person had two options: get kicked out when the visa expired, or, overstay the visa and get kicked out if/when caught.
We’re not talking about a violent criminal here.
We get your message, but you eplicitly said he didn’t break the law, while he clearly did.
That doesn’t mean people agree with him being detained by ICE, but he clearly broke the law, and for some reason you were like “no he didn’t”.
He did, why were you lying about that??
Why is the default position assuming this person is a menace enough to spend resources seeking out and removing? The studies I’ve seen say immigrants use fewer resources and provide more, but this narrative gets spread around that they’re just a bunch of leeches that deserve to be punished at great expense.
That’s not justice. That’s blindly following a law because you don’t know how to think or empathize.
