Irish-born husband of U.S. citizen, based in Wakefield, Mass., in ICE detention for 5 months

[Anonymous]

There are plenty of ICE threads here, but this is an example of a detention of someone who could have been posting here five months ago about how living on $300,000 per year in an expensive city is impossible.

https://www.bostonirish.com/node/34291

Seamus Culleton says he was in the United States legally.

He’s married to a U.S. citizen. He has been getting a green card, has been in detention for five months, and is in a detention facility with inadequate food, where the guards give their favorite inmates extra food and, according to this guy, appear to be killing people.

[Anonymous]

This story is big news in Ireland.

[Anonymous]

What are they upset about, that ICE isn’t simply targeting brown and black people?

[Anonymous]

This is just one (horrific) story out of the thousands that will emerge. And far too many Americans, similar to another time in history, will say “I didn’t know!”. It’s disgusting and we MUST end these human rights abuses.

[Anonymous]

ICE is like a government sanctioned gang.

That said, the guy overstayed his visa. He must've seen on the news that Trump's thugs were going after even minor infractions like visa overstays. Being married to an American doesn't save you from Trump's gangs. We've seen spouses of US military service people being deported.

Are these people not watching/reading the news?

PSA: if at any time, you or someone you know, overstayed their visa, get out NOW. Go to Canada (not the bridge in MI though, cause Trump's gonna shut that down). Then back to your home country and get your greencard situation sorted. Otherwise, you are gambling with your life.

[Anonymous]

I posted about this on another thread but I am glad it is getting its own thread.

To the PP who phrased the question ridiculously: I think some people ARE surprised that ICE is targeting any White people, though this guy is the exception not rule. I do think that there are some people who will care more because it is a White Irish guy and so I am happy to share the story.

His story is not more important than that of others but it is absolutely important and yet another example of the cruelty and incompetence of this administration. The man was about to get a Green Card. How in the world does this make our country greater?

[Anonymous]

Did he follow the proper procedures? I see he’s married to a US citizen and is trying to get a green card, but I also read he overstayed a 90 day tourist visa. So wouldn’t he need to go back to Ireland and wait there for some type of visa to come back or issuance of his green card?

It’s a sad situation, but he’s in ICE detention because he refuses to leave voluntarily and follow some sort of process?

[Anonymous]

Visa overstays trigger 3 or 10-year bars to reentry, depending on the transgression. Marriage to a US citizen doesn’t always make this go away. Many people hope to roll the dice by trying to stay under the radar.

[Anonymous]

Why don’t they just put him on a plane back to Ireland? Is it because he has to first go through the courts, get his “day in court” per the due process clause?

I feel like these folks who get taken into custody by ICE should be able to just purchase a plane ticket and have ICE drop them off at the gate. Is that not permitted by our government?

[Anonymous]

Lots of Irish in the Tristate area who similarly violated tourist visas and then married Americans. I'm talking about tens of thousands of cases from Ireland alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why don’t they just put him on a plane back to Ireland? Is it because he has to first go through the courts, get his “day in court” per the due process clause?

I feel like these folks who get taken into custody by ICE should be able to just purchase a plane ticket and have ICE drop them off at the gate. Is that not permitted by our government?

Nope. The private prison operators get paid by the body by the day. They have a massive budget given to ICE by the OBBB.

They will keep this guy in the private ICE prison for the next few years. He's a profit center.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why don’t they just put him on a plane back to Ireland? Is it because he has to first go through the courts, get his “day in court” per the due process clause?

I feel like these folks who get taken into custody by ICE should be able to just purchase a plane ticket and have ICE drop them off at the gate. Is that not permitted by our government?

This whole operation is just to funnel government money to Trump’s private prison pals. They have almost no one to process or deal with the court cases to get people deported.

[Anonymous]

They dont appear to be killing people. They are in fact killing people. Last year was the deadliest year on record for ICE. And this year is shaping up to be worse. There have been documented homicides, rape, assault, and torture. THOUSANDS are "missing."

Please I beg of everyone, stop pretending we don't know what is going on in these "detention" centers. Our government is rounding up people they consider undesirables and killing them. And if you are just quietly going about your days, shrugging your shoulders, and plugging your ears, you are complicit.

Years down the road when this is all over, the full extent of the atrocities will be uncovered. The world will learn what we allowed to go on, and we as a country will rightfully carry this stain forever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why don’t they just put him on a plane back to Ireland? Is it because he has to first go through the courts, get his “day in court” per the due process clause?

I feel like these folks who get taken into custody by ICE should be able to just purchase a plane ticket and have ICE drop them off at the gate. Is that not permitted by our government?

This whole operation is just to funnel government money to Trump’s private prison pals. They have almost no one to process or deal with the court cases to get people deported.

Sounds an awful lot like 1930s Germany before they decided deportation was taking too long.

The administration is buying up warehouses across the country to convert into "holding centers" while also not investing in additional deportation judges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did he follow the proper procedures? I see he’s married to a US citizen and is trying to get a green card, but I also read he overstayed a 90 day tourist visa. So wouldn’t he need to go back to Ireland and wait there for some type of visa to come back or issuance of his green card?

It’s a sad situation, but he’s in ICE detention because he refuses to leave voluntarily and follow some sort of process?

These are paperwork violations, not crimes. Why are these people being subjected to imprisonment and torture?