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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsICE held US citizen for 3.5 years, then dumped him in rural Alabama with no money and no explanatio
How furious would you be? I am livid every time I read one of these ICE stories.
http://boingboing.net/2017/08/04/ice-held-us-citizen-for-3-5-ye.html/amp
ICE held US citizen for 3.5 years, then dumped him in rural Alabama with no money and no explanation
Mark Frauenfelder
2 hours ago
A Federal Appeals courts says Davino Watson, a U.S. citizen, has no right to damages awarded to him by a lower court after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) imprisoned for over 3 years as a deportable alien then dumped him without explanation in Alabama, leaving him with no means to get home to New York.
From NPR:
There is no right to a court-appointed attorney in immigration court. Watson, who was 23 and didn't have a high school diploma when he entered ICE custody, didn't have a lawyer of his own. So he hand-wrote a letter to immigration officers, attaching his father's naturalization certificate, and kept repeating his status to anyone who would listen.
Still, Immigration and Customs Enforcement kept Watson imprisoned as a deportable alien for nearly 3 1/2 years. Then it released Watson, who was from New York, in rural Alabama with no money and no explanation. Deportation proceedings continued for another year.
Watson was correct all along: He was a U.S. citizen. After he was released, he filed a complaint. Last year, a district judge in New York awarded him $82,500 in damages, citing "regrettable failures of the government."
On Monday, an appeals court ruled that Watson, now 32, is not eligible for any of that money because while his case is "disturbing," the statute of limitations actually expired while he was still in ICE custody without a lawyer.
Still, Immigration and Customs Enforcement kept Watson imprisoned as a deportable alien for nearly 3 1/2 years. Then it released Watson, who was from New York, in rural Alabama with no money and no explanation. Deportation proceedings continued for another year.
Watson was correct all along: He was a U.S. citizen. After he was released, he filed a complaint. Last year, a district judge in New York awarded him $82,500 in damages, citing "regrettable failures of the government."
On Monday, an appeals court ruled that Watson, now 32, is not eligible for any of that money because while his case is "disturbing," the statute of limitations actually expired while he was still in ICE custody without a lawyer.
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ICE held US citizen for 3.5 years, then dumped him in rural Alabama with no money and no explanatio (Original Post)
babylonsister
Aug 2017
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Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)1. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE FUCKING PEOPLE
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)2. if he was in custody then the violation was still going on
and would not start until he was released
DK504
(3,847 posts)3. Held without cause sounds illegal to me.
HAB911
(8,890 posts)4. Seeing a lot of this stuff