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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2017 16:44:56 GMT -5
I trust that about as much as I trust your investment advice lol.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2017 16:51:17 GMT -5
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and predict that Judge Goldsmith's asinine order will be overturned eventually, perhaps by a ruling against his having any jurisdiction (which he hasn't even decided himself, yet). Meanwhile the ridiculous wailing -- and superfluous claptrap perpetuated by idle dweebs like Jackel -- continues. I don't think it'll be overturned, at least not completely. At most I'd expect a case-by-case review of each of the immigrants. IF TRUE that all, or any of them would be killed back in their home country for being who they are, they should be allowed to stay. That pretty much is what America was about, and should always be about. If you are gonna be killed for something we consider legal in the first place, you should be welcome here, we should be their refuge. Saving those kind of people are what will eventually (albeit likely slowly) change the other countries to fall more in line maybe not with us but in line with basic freedoms. That's a real nice, inspirational little speech you gave there. Also, rather naïve in its idealism and optimism.
I couldn't agree more, IF in fact their cries of imminent torture & death are true. And a case-by-case review of each detainee's case is probably appropriate....
...Except that, oh yeah....they already had one! Each was found to be ineligible for relief, as stated in this thread's first post. An immigration judge reached this decision in ALL the detainees' cases.
Perhaps the gloom 'n doom claims ARE true in isolated, extreme cases (informants against the Saddam regime, who might fear individuals still within the government who were active in the Sunni oppressions under him?) or others active in, or cooperating with, our spying on them? It's conceivable that a few MAY have credible needs for political asylum.
So what? Such claims are likely VERY difficult to verify....especially since the U.S. installed democracy over there just recently agreed to accept these deportees. Are we to believe that the torturers are waiting on the tarmac, drooling like Pavlovian dogs, with their chainsaws, jumper cables, power tools and duct tape all ready to go?
Most of these detainees (soon to be upgraded to deportee status) face a HUGE question regarding their presumed applications for political asylum: "HOW COME THIS DANGER -- AND NEED FOR PROTECTION AGAINST HORRENDOUS TREATMENT -- WAS NEVER BROUGHT UP UNTIL YOU WERE BEING DEPORTED?"
Are we to believe that our puppet-government over there agreed to accept these wayward immigrants simply because it wants to kill them? It's doubtful -- after all, the Iraqi people LIVED under such a nightmare for decades. I cannot believe they would so quickly return to it.
Most of these miscreants are goin' back, because they have no answer to that question. Bank on it. These lower-court disapprovals of our immigration laws ACTUALLY BEING ENFORCED are political theater, nothing more....
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Post by Angelo on Jun 27, 2017 17:36:07 GMT -5
I have nothing wrong with being idealistic and optimistic at times. Without people being so at times, we'd die out, we wouldn't adapt, we wouldn't change. If it weren't for some people being optimistic, idealistic, we wouldn't have America, we would have been conquered by Germany, we wouldn't have cured polio, etc...
We need idealism at times, and we need to attempt to make it reality. Otherwise, we die out.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2017 9:14:23 GMT -5
Here's an example of the Chaldean criminals facing deportation after the recent Detroit roundup. Notice that he, too, is claiming he'll be tortured and killed if deported to his homeland.
There's a small problem with his sob-story, however....he originally fled to America because he was a participant in an assassination plot against Saddam Hussein. Now he claims potential persecution and death from the very government that executed Hussein!....or, to be precise, from the "armed militias that follow Sharia law."
His supporters even bring up the spectre of ISIS, because John (Great Rug) Kerry claimed that ISIS was "carrying out genocide against Christians" in Iraq.
So, this convicted murderer's family is claiming imminent danger from the Iraqi government, roving militias of Sharia followers, and ISIS (which controls almost no territory and has a relatively insignificant presence in that country).
So there ya have it folks. The same old liberal mantra: victims, victims and more victims. No mention of personal responsibility, obligations (of citizens and immigrants) to follow laws of civilization that are practically universal, etc.
Just the same old bullshit: "Hey, I've gotten myself in a really tight spot here...IT'S YOUR FAULT!"
LOL.
Let's just fly 'em all into Baghdad and let the U.S.-installed democracy take care of 'em, and move on...
From the Detroit Free Press:
EX-DETROIT CRIME BOSS FACES DEPORTATION AFTER ICE ROUNDUP
by John Wisely
"As the reputed leader of a Chaldean crime ring that rampaged metro Detroit in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Louis Akrawi was well known to local law enforcement.
Police said Akrawi headed an ethnic crime syndicate that moved $200 million a year worth of cocaine through the region. His downfall came in 1993 when he ordered a failed hit on a rival that left a bystander dead. He served 20 years in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder.
Now, Akrawi, 69, is an aging ex-con and he has caught the eyes of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, who want to deport him to his native Iraq. Akrawi fled to the U.S. as a young man after taking part in an attempted coup against Saddam Hussein.
Akrawi is among more than 100 metro Detroit Chaldeans, Iraqi Christians, rounded up recently for deportation under a new deal between the Trump administration and the government of Iraq. He's currently being detained while a judge considers whether to halt the deportations permanently.
Last week, U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith granted more than 1,444 Iraqi immigrants another two weeks to make a legal case against their deportation.
"The substantial allegations made here are the detainees face extreme, grave consequences: death, persecution and torture," Goldsmith wrote in his seven-page order. "Such harm far outweighs any government interest the government may have in proceeding with the removals immediately."
But Akrawi's family isn't convinced he'll be allowed to stay.
"Right now, I think it's 5-10% chance that he stays," said his son, Victor Akrawi. "I wouldn't be surprised if they send him and they don't send everyone else."
Akrawi said his father has no family or friends in Iraq that he knows of, but he's starting to prepare in case he ends up there.
"There is a life there, but it's dangerous. It's ridiculously dangerous," Akrawi said.
Others are even more pessimistic.
"We know that he's going to get killed there," said Louis Akrawi's nephew, Tahrir Kalasho. "He was considered an enemy of the state. I'd hate to see his head in a basket."
Experts say returning Christians to Iraq is the equivalent of a death sentence because they are subject to persecution and death. Last year, then-Secretary of State John Kerry said that ISIS was carrying out genocide against Christians and other minorities in Iraq.
When they are sent home, they will be looked at being foreigners, traitors, collaborators," said Joseph Kassab, who runs the Iraqi Christians Advocacy and Empowerment Institute, a Farmington Hills nonprofit group. "They go with a target on them. The people who will get them are the armed militias who follow Sharia law."
Kassab, who has testified as an expert witness in cases involving other Chaldeans facing deportation, said Akrawi may appear to be an unsympathetic figure because of his criminal past. Most people with criminal records facing deportation were convicted of minor offenses, for which they long ago made amends.
Kassab said many local Chaldeans are angry with the Trump administration's efforts to deport Chaldeans to such a dangerous place. Kassab and many other Chaldeans supported Trump during his campaign last year because he spoke of his commitment to protecting Christians in Iraq.
"Our people are in shock," Kassab said. "These are somber days for Iraqi-Americans."
In the late 1980s and 1990s, Chaldeans in metro Detroit took over vast swaths of the local drug trade, supplanting other gangs like Young Boys Inc. and the Chambers Brothers, which had been dismantled by police and federal agents.
Among the gangs that filled the vacuum was one headed by Akrawi.
"He was kind of the puppet master," said Chuck Pappas, a former Troy Police officer who served on a task force that investigated the gang. "He had all these punk kids doing his stuff for him. He was moving the chess pieces without touching the product."
Akrawi ran a restaurant on 8 Mile named with his initials L.A. Ribs and Chicken, but he'd been through the violence of the times. Akrawi had survived attempts on his life before and he carries scars on his back, leg, stomach and chest.
The gang was known for violence including bombings, shootings and contract killings, some of them directed at police officers, including Pappas.
In 1993, gunmen sprayed automatic weapon fire at the Fiesta Market on Seven Mile, an attack police said Akrawi ordered in retaliation against a rival in the drug business, who had tried to kill Akrawi the day before.
The rival wasn't killed in the attack, but a market customer, Michael Cogborn, 34, of Detroit was killed as he waited in line at a cash register to buy milk.
Akrawi was charged with first-degree murder for ordering the hit.
"An innocent man is dead, but I don't have anything to do with it," Akrawi told the Free Press during his trial. "They don't have anyone to blame, so they're blaming me."
A jury later convicted him of second-degree murder and a judge sentenced him to 15-25 years in prison. He served 20 years before being released on parole in February 2016.
Scott Burnstein, a local author who has interviewed Akrawi extensively for a book he is researching on the Chaldean community, said that since his release, Akrawi has been living quietly in Bloomfield Township with his sister.
Burnstein said it's a far cry from the violence of the Seven Mile and Woodward area of the 1980s and 1990s, and of Baghdad of the 1960s, where Akrawi took part in a failed coup aimed at overthrowing Saddam Hussein. His involvement in that effort forced him to emigrate for fear for his life.
A few weeks ago, Akrawi was called to report to his probation officer, Burnstein said.
"They called him on a Friday and said we need you to sign something," Burnstein said. "He said 'I've got a feeling I'm not coming back.' "
Akrawi reported to his probation officer and was detained on the spot, Burnstein said.
"He wasn't going to run from it," Burnstein said. "He has an iron will."
Contact John Wisely: 248-858-2262 or jwisely@freepress.com. On Twitter @jwisely.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2017 10:48:09 GMT -5
I know a guy that got deported last summer. I'll be damned if I didn't see him last night lighting off fireworks with his kids.
We enforcing these borders yet or is all of this for naught?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 18:42:44 GMT -5
A quick update on this ongoing joke:
To no one's surprise, Judge Goldsmith has ordered ANOTHER delay (90 days) in the deportation of more than 100 Iraqi nationals with felony convictions. This ruling allows them to make appeals in immigration courts, county criminal courts and through the governor's office.
He cited the fact that these Iraqis faced deportation "suddenly" after years of their cases lying "dormant." Ever-helpful attorney Clarence Dass (whom we are likely paying to perpetuate this farce) dropped by long enough to state his approval of the ruling, along with a statement that the deportees faced "a death sentence" in Iraq.
He offered no evidence of this, and -- guess what? -- the simpering fools reporting on the case never asked him for any!
Shocking, I know...
No doubt, this is due to eight years of quasi-legal Obama policies which handcuffed the proper enforcement of immigration laws....yet another albatross our society has been saddled with, due to Slick Barry and his minions of mercy.
Pretty slick strategy, I guess. Tie the hands of ICE, and then use THAT as an excuse to raise the phony complaint that law-enforcement had, somehow, been remiss in not acting sooner! Just add one liberal federal judge, mix well with the aforementioned administrative negligence, sprinkle in the usual compliant media retards, and our perfectly reasonable immigration laws get ignored.
Again.
Hopefully, the relevant court cases that ensue will result in at least 90% of these foreigners going home.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2017 9:33:52 GMT -5
My chicks mom takes on foster kids. Has for years. The girls she has had lately are super sweet. We've brought them out to the river, take them on trips with us, etc.
One of them was fondled by her father. Which is why they are all in the program to begin with. Her father is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador. The guy has been sitting in jail for awhile now.
We got word last week he is now being deported. THIS is the type of deportations I want to see happen.
Now let's get some border enforcement to make sure this sick fuck can't weasel his way back in.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2018 9:44:43 GMT -5
Well, U.S. (Deep State) District Judge Mark Goldsmith's LOOOONG list of stupid, ignore-the-law-and-all-previous-precedents rulings (in this sorry example of judicial activism) should be coming to an end. And none too soon!
APPEALS COURT KNOCKS DOWN RULING IN IRAQI DEPORTATION CASE
An appeals court has overturned key decisions by a Detroit federal judge who slowed down or suspended the deportation of Iraqi nationals across the country.
Dec. 20, 2018, at 8:31 p.m.
U.S. News & World Report
By ED WHITE, Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) — An appeals court on Thursday overturned key rulings by a federal judge who had slowed down or suspended the deportation of Iraqi nationals across the country during more than a year of litigation against the Trump administration.
In a 2-1 decision, the court agreed with the U.S. Justice Department and said U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith repeatedly exceeded his authority in immigration disputes.
One of Goldsmith's legal conclusions was "broad, novel and incorrect," while a requirement that deportees get bond hearings was "created out of thin air," said Judge Alice Batchelder of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
A lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in U.S. District Court was "undoubtedly outside the norm for removal proceedings, over which immigration courts hold exclusive jurisdiction," Batchelder said.
But the practical effect of the 6th Circuit decision is unclear. The government this week followed a Nov. 20 order by Goldsmith to release about 100 Iraqi nationals who are under deportation but had been in custody for more than six months. The judge said "families have been shattered."
The lawsuit was filed in 2017 after the government suddenly began arresting hundreds of Iraqi nationals, many with criminal records, to enforce deportation orders. They had been allowed to stay in the U.S. for years because Iraq wouldn't accept them.
But the ACLU argued that their lives would be at risk if they were sent back to their native country. The goal of the lawsuit was to suspend deportations and allow people to return to immigration court to make new arguments about safety.
Because of Goldsmith's rulings, "hundreds of Iraqis have been able to present their cases before immigration judges, rather than being suddenly deported without a hearing to a county where they are in incredible danger," said ACLU attorney Miriam Aukerman.
Nathalie Asher, a deportation official at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the appeals court vindicated the government's position. She said ICE was reviewing the decision.
"Lawsuits like this one ... undermine our immigration laws and enforcement efforts," Asher said.
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Post by vegeta420z on Dec 25, 2018 5:23:43 GMT -5
This could have gone into the "Trump's Presidency" thread but it's sort of its own category of Left-Leaning Lunacy, so I separated it. This is from the Detroit area but no doubt some other posters (Californians? Texans or Arizonians?) could no doubt relate their own immigration-law violation stories, and I hope they do.
From the June 13 Detroit Free Press:
FAMILIES FRANTIC AFTER METRO RAIDS
by Niraj Warikoo
"Inside the family room of a Sterling Heights home, Haydar Butris' family passed around the phone so that they could speak with him. The 38-year-old father of three was calling from an immigrant detention facility four hours away in Youngstown, Ohio.
"How are you?" Butris' sister, Lina Denha, asked, wiping away tears with a tissue. "I miss you."
Then, his 3-year-old son, Eli, got on the phone.
"Hi, dad," the boy said. "I love you. ... When are you going to come home?"
That question was asked by many Iraqi-Americans in metro Detroit on Monday a day after federal immigration agents conducted one of the biggest roundups of Iraqi immigrants in recent memory. Attorneys for those detained speculate that the number of immigrants taken away Sunday range from 90 to 300, and were mostly Iraqi Christians. ICE did not release a number of detainees.
Sunday's deportation raid gave rise to an emotional Monday evening protest, as those gathered chanted "Stop deportations, bring the families home" on the corner of 15 Mile and Ryan Road in Sterling Heights at one of the centers of metro Detroit's Iraqi-American Christian population. "Chaldean lives matter," said one T-shirt, referring to Iraqi Catholics.
Federal officials in Detroit strongly defended their actions, saying Monday that the immigrants they detained have criminal backgrounds and were targeted for deportation after a deal struck with the Iraqi government.
"As a result of recent negotiations between the U.S. and Iraq, Iraq has recently agreed to accept a number of Iraqi nationals subject to orders of removal," said Khaalid Walls, a spokesman for the Michigan office of ICE (Immigration Customs and Enforcement), which is part of the Department of Homeland Security.
"As part of ICE's efforts to process the backlog of these individuals, the agency recently arrested a number of Iraqi nationals, all of whom had criminal convictions for crimes including homicide, rape, aggravated assault, kidnapping, burglary, drug trafficking, robbery, sex assault, weapons violations and other offenses."
Metro Detroit Iraqi-American Christian leaders have criticized Sunday's deportation raids as overzealous.
But Walls said: "Each of these individuals received full and fair immigration proceedings, after which a federal immigration judge found them ineligible for any form of relief under U.S. law and ordered them removed."
They were taken to a detention facility in Youngstown, where Butris made his call.
In 1993, Butris legally immigrated to the U.S. from Iraq with his parents. But when he was 20 years old, he was caught possessing seven pounds of marijuana, which makes him eligible under the new administration of President Donald Trump to be deported.
Previously, the U.S. usually didn't prioritize legal immigrants with minor criminal records for deportation, attorneys have said.
Butris' oldest child, daughter Lilly Butirs, 12, wept as she recalled what happened Sunday morning at their home. She recalls the federal agents at her home putting her dad in handcuffs.
"It's not fair," she said. "I don't know why they want to rip families apart. This country was built on immigrants. ... We're not treated like people. We're treated like objects. That's not OK.
"Do you know how hard it is to have your father, who means everything to you, just taken away from you, having that scared feeling you're never going to see him again?"
On Sunday, family members of many of the detained waited outside the Detroit ICE offices at Jefferson Avenue and Mt. Elliott trying to get answers.
Late Sunday night, some of their frustrations erupted as a crowd of Iraqi Americans attempted to block buses transporting the detainees to the Ohio detention facility. Videos posted to social media show them chanting "Let our people out" as they appear to stand in front of a bus.
Attorneys said the Iraqis who were arrested came to the U.S. legally, but after they committed crimes, were subject to be deported. However, such cases were not seen as priorities before Trump became president, said Southfield attorney Clarence Dass, who represents ten of the Iraqis arrested, including Butris.
Iraqi-American Christian advocates and defense attorneys say that the raids were cruel since Christians are currently being persecuted in Iraq, where they are a minority.
"We're sending them to die," said Warren attorney and Southfield district court magistrate Eman Jajonie-Daman, who is representing 25 of the Iraqis detained. "How do you justify that? It's an egregious violation of human rights."
Jajonie-Daman said that 307 were detained on Sunday in raids involving many ICE agents.
Walls said: "ICE does not target individuals based on religion, ethnicity, gender or race. ICE's enforcement actions target individuals who are subject to immigration enforcement.
"These efforts are targeted and lead-driven. ICE does not conduct sweeps or raids that target aliens indiscriminately."
At the Sterling Heights rally, family members held up photos of loved ones detained.
Daher Al-Mayhi, 50, of Dearborn Heights said her husband, who has medical problems, was taken by immigration agents on Sunday. He had served one year in prison for fraud a few years ago. Like many of the others detained, he was a legal immigrant.
Sabrina Pasha of Sterling Heights begged for ICE to release her son, Tony Hormez, 42, who spent most of his life in the U.S.
"Don't deport him over there, please, please," she said. "He doesn't even speak Chaldean."
Inside the Butris home on Monday, parents of the detainee and other family members worried Haydar would be easily targeted if he is sent back to Iraq since he doesn't speak Arabic well and is Christian.
The family is trying to see if they can get his case reopened so he is not deported. It's unclear what the time table is for the detainees and when they might be removed from the U.S.
"My mother was crying," when the ICE agents arrived at about 7:30 a.m. Sunday morning, said Butris' younger brother, Martin Mansor. "She fainted. ... We're devastated. We really don't know what to do. We don't want him sent back there because of the genocide of Christians."
Lily pondered a life without her dad: "It's complete insanity. ... Why is there such cruelty in the world?"
Contact Niraj Warikoo: nwarikoo@freepress.com or 313-223-4792. Follow him on Twitter @nwarikoo
Of course you pay pics of the little kids, ugh gave palm. Haven't read the whole thread probably not gonna. But any one see all the boo hoo bull shit from the ice agents that dropped off 500 illegals at a grey hound station in new Mexico.? They just left them there in the cold boo hoo, you know where it warm? Fucking Mexico
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Post by vegeta420z on Dec 25, 2018 5:26:24 GMT -5
Oh Haha didn't realize this was old thread, till I saw jack hole heading about selling cars
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Post by vegeta420z on Dec 25, 2018 5:29:43 GMT -5
My chicks mom takes on foster kids. Has for years. The girls she has had lately are super sweet. We've brought them out to the river, take them on trips with us, etc. One of them was fondled by her father. Which is why they are all in the program to begin with. Her father is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador. The guy has been sitting in jail for awhile now. We got word last week he is now being deported. THIS is the type of deportations I want to see happen. Now let's get some border enforcement to make sure this sick fuck can't weasel his way back in. So is your girl your foster sister you dick fuck? So your a cuck and incestuous that's no surprise really
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Post by cybergod2 on Aug 20, 2019 16:33:37 GMT -5
FINALLY, after two years of deep-state shenanigans, Michigan finally gets to deport some criminally- convicted Iraqi illegals....even as they wail their tired-ass bullshit about facing certain torture and death over there. Funny, many of them HAVEN'T BEEN TO THAT COUNTRY SINCE CHILDHOOD, so how in the world would they face any problem whatsoever? These mooks must think we're a bunch of rubes, I guess....
DEPORTATIONS TO IRAQ STOKE FEAR AMONG IMMIGRANT FAMILIES IN MICHIGAN
Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free PressPublished 7:40 a.m. ET Aug. 19, 2019 | Updated 9:11 a.m. ET Aug. 19, 2019
"Sixteen Iraqi nationals — half from metro Detroit — have been deported to Iraq since an April court decision allowed their removal from the U.S. The move has sparked anxiety for some immigrant families, heightened by the recent death in Baghdad of a diabetic deportee from Oakland County.
This summer, several detained Iraqi nationals with criminal records have struggled to avoid deportation. Some have sliced off their GPS monitor tethers, others have tried to ground airplanes by causing verbal disruptions.
In one case, a 31-year-old Iraqi national, Oliver Awshana of Muskegon, screamed on a flight last month as he was being deported to Iraq, causing the pilots to refuse to fly him to Turkey, said his Detroit attorney, Shanta Driver. Awshana is now in detention awaiting a court hearing.
In another case, Ali Al-Sadoon, 34, an Iraqi refugee and father of six living in Redford, cut off his tether after he was told he would be deported in just a few days. Al-Sadoon moved to the U.S. as a child along with his parents; he was arrested at his home in Redford on the last Friday in July by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents.
Others arrested in recent weeks include Wisam Hamana, 39, of Hazel Park, who has lived in the U.S. since he was 3. Hamana was convicted of charges involving a stolen vehicle and property. He cut off his tether and later was arrested by ICE agents at his girlfriend's home, Driver said.
Driver is representing a number of Iraqi-Americans who are desperately trying to find ways to stay in the U.S. after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in April ruled against Iraqi-Americans seeking to halt their deportations.
"You have to do what is necessary to keep yourself alive," Driver said.
In the summer of 2017, ICE conducted roundups of Iraqi nationals with criminal convictions who had orders of removals by immigration judges; about 1,400 were detained, many of them in Michigan, and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit to block their removals.
"It's a death sentence," Driver said. "To be sent back to a country where you have no family, no relatives, no friends in, no knowledge of the customs of that country, no identification that could make it possible for you to get any sort of services, it's a death sentence for every single person being put in that situation."
ICE Director Matthew Albence told the Free Press on Friday in a statement that its agents are enforcing orders of removal already approved by judges and that they will prosecute any attempts to abscond from the law.
Albence noted that the vast majority of those being targeted for removal have criminal convictions and have already received due process in the courts.
Albence said: "After an exhaustive nearly two-year judicial review of the class members’ claims, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed ICE’s ability to remove the aliens represented in the case, the vast majority of whom have criminal convictions, to Iraq. The decision again affirmed that each individual received full due process. Consistent with the Sixth Circuit’s order, the agency will continue making removal arrangements for those Iraqi nationals with final orders of removal, as appropriate."
In November, U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith ruled in favor of the Iraqis, but in December, a three-judge panel with the sixth circuit ruled against him. In April, the full court upheld that decision, allowing the deportations to Iraq to go forward.
Albence said ICE is carrying out its duties in removing the Iraqis and warned that those who cut their GPS monitor tethers will be prosecuted.
"The U.S. government provides all those in removal proceedings with an opportunity to apply and be considered for relief from removal," Albence said. "If at the conclusion of that review those individuals are found ineligible for relief by an immigration judge, ICE must carry out its sworn duty to enforce the law if or when an individual fails to comply with that removal order on his own. Those individuals who actively impede their removal, such as by cutting off their GPS monitor (tether) or absconding, are subject to further criminal prosecution.”
ICE officials said that Iraq agreed in 2017 to accept the repatriation of Iraqi nationals living in the U.S. with criminal records who already had orders of removal. The ACLU lawsuit filed in 2017 said the Iraqis were generally unaware they could be sent back to Iraq in their criminal cases. The litigation allowed some of the Iraqis to get their cases reheard by judges in criminal or immigration courts and some are free for now.
Al-Sadoon's wife, Belqis Florido, wonders if she and their six children ages 4 to 13 can survive without him. He is in the Livingston County Jail and is awaiting a hearing on charges he cut off his tether.
"We're hurting; we're struggling right now," Florido said Friday. "He was our provider, our protector, and he's gone."
Ali Al-Sadoon, 34, of Redford, an Iraqi immigrant who has lived in the U.S. since 1994 and father of six children. He arrived in the U.S. as a refugee at the age of 9. ICE wants to deport him due to his criminal convictions and final order of removal.
Al-Sadoon was born in Iraq and came to the U.S. with his family in 1994 when he was 9 as a refugee. Florido said he used drugs years ago, which led him to commit some crimes. He was convicted of breaking and entering, safe breaking, larceny and fleeing a police officer, according to records with the Michigan Department of Corrections.
He served four and a half years in prison for his convictions and then was placed in ICE custody for three more years, said Florido. He was released in December, after a federal judge ruled in favor of Iraqi plaintiffs in the ACLU lawsuit.
When Al-Sadoon was told by ICE he would be deported soon, he cut off his tether because he wanted to see his family one last time and get his affairs in order before he was forced to leave, his wife said.
Florido said he will die if he is sent to Iraq, just as Jimmy Al-Daoud, 41, did, two weeks ago. Al-Daoud, who lived in the U.S. since he was 6 months old, died Aug. 6 in Baghdad after he was deported in June, probably from complications from diabetes, said his attorney.
"He doesn't know anything about Iraq," Florido said of her husband. If he's deported, "we probably won't hear from him ever again."
Florido said that a brother of Al-Sadoon was deported several years ago and was killed. She fears the same fate will befall her husband.
He knows little Arabic and will clearly come across as American when he is in Iraq, making him an easy target, she said.
"He doesn't speak Arabic that well, has tattoos, he's more American than I am and I was born in America," she said. "The same thing that happened to Jimmy is going to happen to my husband."
On Thursday night, mourners gathered at the Chaldean Community Foundation in Sterling Heights to remember Al-Daoud, saying his death should be a wake up call to block further deportations.
"He did not deserve this," said Al-Daoud's sister, Rita Al-Daoud, in tears at the vigil. "He had a really, really big heart. ... No one deserves to die ... scared and alone."
Last week, U.S. Rep. Andy Levin, D-Bloomfield Township, sent a letter to President Donald Trump signed by him, U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Southfield, and 39 other House Democrats demanding an end to the deportations.
Metro Detroit has a sizable Iraqi-American population, many of whom have voiced concerns. Levin's 9th House district in metro Detroit has the highest number of residents born in Iraq, about 16,000, among all House districts in the U.S.
"The system will do it again" if more Iraqis are deported, Levin told the crowd at the vigil for Al-Daoud at the Chaldean center. "The situation could not be more urgent."
Levin said that Iraqi-Americans who have been sent back are facing threats to their lives and some are suicidal.
Eva Shamou, of Sterling Heights, said her 50-year-old uncle from Warren was deported last month to Iraq and had been living with Al-Daoud. He had been living in the U.S. since was a teenager, but after some criminal convictions, he was ordered removed to Iraq.
"He was homeless" until an Assyrian group helped him, Shamou said. She said he told her recently: "I'm ready to kill myself, because I can't live like this."
"Everything there is a shock to him," she said.
Shamou didn't give her uncle's name because she is worried about his safety in Iraq.
ICE said foreign nationals who are ordered to be deported get extensive due process that costs American taxpayers. ICE said those who face such orders have several chances to appeal, with the Board of Immigration Appeals, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court.
ACLU Michigan attorney Margo Schlanger, who also helped with the ACLU lawsuit, said that out of the 16 Iraqi nationals who have been deported, seven of them were part of their litigation. ICE said that eight Iraqi nationals deported since April are from metro Detroit.
"We are extremely concerned about what has happened," said Miriam Aukerman, senior staff attorney with the ACLU Michigan, who helped lead the litigation against ICE on behalf of the Iraqis detained. "They are in extreme danger."
Aukerman told the Free Press two weeks before Al-Daoud died: "We're seeing people being deported to a place where they are likely to be persecuted, tortured and killed."
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