Emerson Colindres had no criminal record and was attending appointment with ICE when detained
A teenage student and soccer stand-out was arrested by immigration authorities four days after his high school graduation ceremony in Ohio earlier this month, and deported to Honduras this week, his family has said.
Emerson Colindres, 19, had no criminal record and was attending a regularly scheduled appointment with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Cincinnati when he was detained on 4 June, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
His parents told the newspaper he was deported on Wednesday to a country he has not lived in since he was 8 years old.
I guess we have different values.
I don’t see it as a moral good to kick someone out of the country if they would make a good citizen. I don’t see it as an economic good to remove a productive member of society. I don’t see how the ongoing ICE campaign to instill fear in our immigrant population is good for our communities.
Just because it’s the law doesn’t make it right.
You said it better than I’ve ever heard, and what you’ve said is going to become part of my talking points against all the bullshit and cruelty of ICE and Trump’s war on non-white people.
You’re why I’m on Lemmy.
Yes, but not having proper paperwork doesn’t make you a good citizen. The kid had 10 years to make it right. He didn’t.
Yeah that damn 8 year old should have known better…
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8 + 10 = ?
Maybe you can help me understand how kicking this kid out makes our country better?
It helps Pee-wee German get it up, I guess? That dude wants a white country. They don’t care about the law, they ultimately want no immigration. Unless they are white immigrants.
The kid already showed his attitude by ignoring the law for 10 years. How did he appear in the country in the first place?
Why would he be going to an immigration check in if he was breaking the law?
You didn’t answer the question, and that’s what I’m really interested in.
How does this make our country better?
The kid had 10 years to do what exactly?
No idea. Some bureaucratic shit. He obviously lacked some papers.
Sure, but im curious what you think an underage child can do about it themselves.
Depends on what documents he missed.
Walk me through a ten year old obtaining any legal documents pertaining to their citizenship in the US.
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I actually agree with you here. He obviously didnt do those things alone. But for some reason you think he is solely responsible for obtaining legal citizenship status while being underage. If you understand he likely didnt enroll himself into school here, why do you think its reasonable he would be able to obtain citizenship himself?
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I don’t know if you know this, but 10 years is not enough time to get citizenship I the US