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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.

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[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 2 points 8 minutes ago

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.

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 39 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Just wait until they figure out where Kash Patel is "really" from. Bet you the crocodile tears will run like rivers.

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago

No, it's ok. He's one of the good ones. /s

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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?

[–] LordGimp@lemm.ee 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Where exactly are you coming up with the idea that San Francisco California and Tacoma Washington are "across the country" from one another?

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 minutes ago

The 800 miles of separation North-South.

[–] ericatty@infosec.pub 4 points 1 hour ago

We are a big country and Florida Keys to Maine is about 1800 miles, Wilmington NC to Barstow CA is about 2500 miles

Seems like up and down should count too sometimes. But we need a better word than across, especially if it can't be safely driven in a single day by a single driver without stopping to sleep.

(San Fran to SeaTac is about 800 miles)

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Um, Seattle and SF are on the same coast..maybe there’s just a bigger concentration camp set up there

[–] BenjiRenji@feddit.org 40 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

Wait.. why would they detain her let alone deport? She has legal residency.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 4 points 53 minutes ago

They've also "deported" (exiled is a better word) actual citizens. Someone on a green card has less protection than that.

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] 10001110101@lemm.ee 2 points 37 minutes ago

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.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Well it’s simple really—because the fascists decree it to be so.

[–] BenjiRenji@feddit.org 21 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

This makes residency permits completely worthless. Greencard holders other visa holders can all just be randomly detained when traveling.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 23 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

US Citizens have been getting deported, we're far past that already.

[–] BenjiRenji@feddit.org 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

These were all minors of deported parents no? At least there's a bad reason for it.

[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Tbf this was also a bad reason to detain this woman. They'll expand it to native-born American criminals, and then """criminals."""

[–] seeigel@feddit.org 3 points 3 hours ago

Just don't do any crimes.

\s

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 hours ago

They have quotas to fill. Makes sense for them to pick these low-hanging fruits.

[–] AshMan85@lemmy.world 91 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Catholics are not considered white to the white supremacist

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 34 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] khannie@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago

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).

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 46 points 12 hours ago

Considering the US is going back to the 1800s, no better time to start treating the Irish like shit again.

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