There’s a lot of stuff to unpack in this case, some of which was her fault, and some of which was not. Her lawyer advised her to sign the deportation agreement presented to her assuming they wouldn’t follow through with it, and then they did.
… I can’t even. Both her lawyer and ICE.
Lawyers, plural. She had two different lawyers who both fucked her over.
Incompetent shyster #1:
She took a plea deal and served 2 1/2 years in prison. She said her attorney incorrectly told her the plea deal would not affect her immigration status as a green card holder. But her legal permanent residency was revoked.
Incompetent shyster #2:
At the end of her sentence, Yang was transferred to an ICE detention facility in Minnesota. There, at the advice of another attorney, she signed a document agreeing that a deportation order would be entered against her in exchange for being released from detention.
Despite agreeing to be deported, she and her attorney believed it wouldn’t happen, since only a small handful of people are deported to Laos each year, if any, and Laos typically has refused to accept U.S. deportees.
Yeah, that second lawyer took one hell of a gamble. I see where they were coming from, but those are extremely risky dice to roll… And now their client is in more trouble than ever… Critical failure.
And the first lawyer… I have nothing to say, what a dumbass.
How do I find out these lawyers? 'Cause I’m sure as shit not hiring them.
IIRC they basically never send anyone to Laos - it’s “uncooperative” with deportations. So it wasn’t that insane.
Historically sure. Now Trump is in power and deportations are the norm. The lawyer banked on precedent but should have considered president
How is any of it her fault? She never should have been put in a position to sign such an agreement in the first place.
She is an immigrant and knowingly committed a felony that some people spend a very long time in prison for. People have been deported for much less.
I think weed should be legal in the first place, and I think it’s pretty fucked to deport her, but to say she that none of it is her fault is just wrong.
People are deported to countries they’ve never been to for much less? Yeah, I don’t think so. My point was that she never should have been in a position to sign something that would deport her to fucking Laos.
Her lawyer is about to be facing a lawsuit.
From Laos?
I wonder what went down for Laos to accept her. I guess her parents are from there but she was born in Thailand. In the article they mention that Laos is generally uncooperative with accepting deportations, so I am curious to see how it was even justified. People are just going to be sent wherever now? Obviously it’s disgusting no matter where they’re sent, but she’s not even from there!
This is what happened with the ethnic clensing under Eisenhower that Trump said was his blueprint. They regularly deported citizens, they deported people living in the US all their since early childhood, they deported people to places they didn’t speak the language or know the culture with no resources of any kind. A lot of people died afterwords. But this will make Trump and his cult giddy with delight, this is cruelty they want. They want to know people will be deported with next to no justification in terrible fashion
I’m from a country that is still dealing with the consequences of this more than 50 years later. This isn’t damaging for presidency term, this is damaging for generations. Thankfully I no longer have bonds or investments in US, I genuinely see everything economically going downhill for a long time. Welcome to East Europe, America.
I would have assumed connecting flight/transportation.
Did you mean to reply to me or am I misunderstanding? She is in Laos and that is her final destination. Laos has citizenship tied to parental citizenship, so I conceptually understand that she has a valid claim to Laos citizenship, but she didn’t even have documentation from there. What is your comment getting at?
I wish someone would deport me to Laos. I’d be siked about making new friends.
The article says she’s a “legal permanent us resident”. It’s a little weird that she’s been living in the US for 37 years and never got her citizenship. I wonder what that’s about.
That’s about nonya.
As in nonya fracking business. Everyone is allowed to be a permanent resident and leave it at that.
It doesn’t fucking matter, and it’s none of our business.
Completely irrelevant.
And let’s be honest, if I wasn’t born here and had been considering becoming a citizen ~30 years ago, that would have changed in the past ~20 years or so, and I would probably have decided against it.
Getting citizenship in a lot of countries is expensive.
My partners mother has lived in the UK since the late 80s, has been married to a british bloke for most of that time and has two kids that were born here by him.
Still only has indefinite leave to remain, no citizenship.
looks like it’ll be over £3000 if she wants to get it just for the application (i imagine it’d also be a good idea to instruct a solicitor). which, for a semi-retired carer that flies back to her home country for a month each year, is a lot of money
Ah, that makes some sense. Seems like a problem that really needs to be addressed, the last thing we need is more barriers (especially financial ones) to the legal process. We need to be encouraging people to claim all the rights and representation that they’re deserved.
“I don’t care about this person’s suffering because they are here because of x instead of y”
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“And so it seemed like the perfect time to allow packages to be delivered to my house, not ask what they are, and when I get the inkling they are illicit do and say absolutely nothing about. Nothing bad whatsoever could come from this”
