Legal immigrant detained, then they retroactively revoke his visa

[Anonymous]

Wow, graffiti, you don’t say. When I was in middle school, there was a major international incident when an American teenager graffitied cars and signs in Singapore and was sentenced to caning. This was the top story for days. Our diplomats negotiated. It sparked a national conversation in America. Sure graffiti isn’t great, we all thought, but what kind of government reacts this way?!

In Trump 1.0, an American student stole a poster in North Korea. Yes, a dumb thing to do. But North Korea put him on trial, found him guilty, sentenced him to 15 years in prison with hard labor, then beat him senseless until he was in a coma and just barely alive before they allowed the US to come and get him. On the bright side, I guess, his parents were with him and he was on US soil when he died. Tough on crime!

The point is: this is not how we do things. Married to a US citizen with an active visa? I do not give a fk about graffiti, and neither should you. Yes, graffiti is dumb. But it’s not enough to revoke a visa. You are losing the plot here. I promise you do not want to turn into North Korea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, graffiti, you don’t say. When I was in middle school, there was a major international incident when an American teenager graffitied cars and signs in Singapore and was sentenced to caning. This was the top story for days. Our diplomats negotiated. It sparked a national conversation in America. Sure graffiti isn’t great, we all thought, but what kind of government reacts this way?!

In Trump 1.0, an American student stole a poster in North Korea. Yes, a dumb thing to do. But North Korea put him on trial, found him guilty, sentenced him to 15 years in prison with hard labor, then beat him senseless until he was in a coma and just barely alive before they allowed the US to come and get him. On the bright side, I guess, his parents were with him and he was on US soil when he died. Tough on crime!

The point is: this is not how we do things. Married to a US citizen with an active visa? I do not give a fk about graffiti, and neither should you. Yes, graffiti is dumb. But it’s not enough to revoke a visa. You are losing the plot here. I promise you do not want to turn into North Korea.

Well said. I hope it resonates for some.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, graffiti, you don’t say. When I was in middle school, there was a major international incident when an American teenager graffitied cars and signs in Singapore and was sentenced to caning. This was the top story for days. Our diplomats negotiated. It sparked a national conversation in America. Sure graffiti isn’t great, we all thought, but what kind of government reacts this way?!

In Trump 1.0, an American student stole a poster in North Korea. Yes, a dumb thing to do. But North Korea put him on trial, found him guilty, sentenced him to 15 years in prison with hard labor, then beat him senseless until he was in a coma and just barely alive before they allowed the US to come and get him. On the bright side, I guess, his parents were with him and he was on US soil when he died. Tough on crime!

The point is: this is not how we do things. Married to a US citizen with an active visa? I do not give a fk about graffiti, and neither should you. Yes, graffiti is dumb. But it’s not enough to revoke a visa. You are losing the plot here. I promise you do not want to turn into North Korea.

If you are going to come to this country on a visa, you damn well better do your best to follow our laws.
I care about graffiti. It is costly. You might not care about it. You probably thought that the destruction during the summer of 2020 was just fine because it was "just property damage."

And, comparing deportation to caning or beating to death is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, graffiti, you don’t say. When I was in middle school, there was a major international incident when an American teenager graffitied cars and signs in Singapore and was sentenced to caning. This was the top story for days. Our diplomats negotiated. It sparked a national conversation in America. Sure graffiti isn’t great, we all thought, but what kind of government reacts this way?!

In Trump 1.0, an American student stole a poster in North Korea. Yes, a dumb thing to do. But North Korea put him on trial, found him guilty, sentenced him to 15 years in prison with hard labor, then beat him senseless until he was in a coma and just barely alive before they allowed the US to come and get him. On the bright side, I guess, his parents were with him and he was on US soil when he died. Tough on crime!

The point is: this is not how we do things. Married to a US citizen with an active visa? I do not give a fk about graffiti, and neither should you. Yes, graffiti is dumb. But it’s not enough to revoke a visa. You are losing the plot here. I promise you do not want to turn into North Korea.

If you are going to come to this country on a visa, you damn well better do your best to follow our laws.
I care about graffiti. It is costly. You might not care about it. You probably thought that the destruction during the summer of 2020 was just fine because it was "just property damage."

And, comparing deportation to caning or beating to death is ridiculous.

And you probably thought smashing windows in the Capitol or smearing feces on the walls was worthy of pardons.

And the distance between deportation and caning is getting shorter by the day, my man. After all, today we have masked men who don’t identify themselves walking up and grabbing students off the streets. And we send gay barbers to foreign work camps, and we allow the executive branch to send people off without due process in defiance of the Supreme Court, systematically wrecking the very system we claim to love, and that you no doubt stand for and put your hand over heart for at a baseball game. He takes it inch by inch and you allow it because he has convinced you that everyone else is the enemy. But anyway, do go on about graffiti.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OPT needs to be repealed immediately.

The Optional Practical Training (OPT) is a work authorization program that was created entirely through regulation and not through congress.

Any alien grad irrespective of merit or quality of their program qualifies for the work permit.

Employers are exempt from payroll taxes if they hire aliens on OPT.

It’s strictly a job displacement program where young American graduates are passed over in favor of foreign student graduates.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-opinion-optional-practical-training-problems-stem-graduates-deserve-better-jobs-opportunities/

Looks like we found the MAGA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, graffiti, you don’t say. When I was in middle school, there was a major international incident when an American teenager graffitied cars and signs in Singapore and was sentenced to caning. This was the top story for days. Our diplomats negotiated. It sparked a national conversation in America. Sure graffiti isn’t great, we all thought, but what kind of government reacts this way?!

In Trump 1.0, an American student stole a poster in North Korea. Yes, a dumb thing to do. But North Korea put him on trial, found him guilty, sentenced him to 15 years in prison with hard labor, then beat him senseless until he was in a coma and just barely alive before they allowed the US to come and get him. On the bright side, I guess, his parents were with him and he was on US soil when he died. Tough on crime!

The point is: this is not how we do things. Married to a US citizen with an active visa? I do not give a fk about graffiti, and neither should you. Yes, graffiti is dumb. But it’s not enough to revoke a visa. You are losing the plot here. I promise you do not want to turn into North Korea.

If you are going to come to this country on a visa, you damn well better do your best to follow our laws.
I care about graffiti. It is costly. You might not care about it. You probably thought that the destruction during the summer of 2020 was just fine because it was "just property damage."

And, comparing deportation to caning or beating to death is ridiculous.

What is ridiculous these days is the metal hoops MAGA jumps through to defend a convicted felon as president. That is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OPT needs to be repealed immediately.

The Optional Practical Training (OPT) is a work authorization program that was created entirely through regulation and not through congress.

Any alien grad irrespective of merit or quality of their program qualifies for the work permit.

Employers are exempt from payroll taxes if they hire aliens on OPT.

It’s strictly a job displacement program where young American graduates are passed over in favor of foreign student graduates.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-opinion-optional-practical-training-problems-stem-graduates-deserve-better-jobs-opportunities/

Your post is irrelevant to this discussion. This is about someone who is here lawfully being torn away from his family. This is fascism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, graffiti, you don’t say. When I was in middle school, there was a major international incident when an American teenager graffitied cars and signs in Singapore and was sentenced to caning. This was the top story for days. Our diplomats negotiated. It sparked a national conversation in America. Sure graffiti isn’t great, we all thought, but what kind of government reacts this way?!

In Trump 1.0, an American student stole a poster in North Korea. Yes, a dumb thing to do. But North Korea put him on trial, found him guilty, sentenced him to 15 years in prison with hard labor, then beat him senseless until he was in a coma and just barely alive before they allowed the US to come and get him. On the bright side, I guess, his parents were with him and he was on US soil when he died. Tough on crime!

The point is: this is not how we do things. Married to a US citizen with an active visa? I do not give a fk about graffiti, and neither should you. Yes, graffiti is dumb. But it’s not enough to revoke a visa. You are losing the plot here. I promise you do not want to turn into North Korea.

Revoking a visa over graffiti is excessive, but it’s rational, and it’s not inherently biased. An anti-graffiti rule could apply to a crazy pro-Netanyahu person as easily as to a pro-Hamas person. So, I don’t like that, but that’s just one of those stupid government things.

If I understand the story of the Tufts grad student correctly, and she really got kidnapped off by ICE the street because she co-wrote a carefully worded op-ed that supported Gaza but didn’t call for violence or deny Israel’s right to exist, that’s insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, graffiti, you don’t say. When I was in middle school, there was a major international incident when an American teenager graffitied cars and signs in Singapore and was sentenced to caning. This was the top story for days. Our diplomats negotiated. It sparked a national conversation in America. Sure graffiti isn’t great, we all thought, but what kind of government reacts this way?!

In Trump 1.0, an American student stole a poster in North Korea. Yes, a dumb thing to do. But North Korea put him on trial, found him guilty, sentenced him to 15 years in prison with hard labor, then beat him senseless until he was in a coma and just barely alive before they allowed the US to come and get him. On the bright side, I guess, his parents were with him and he was on US soil when he died. Tough on crime!

The point is: this is not how we do things. Married to a US citizen with an active visa? I do not give a fk about graffiti, and neither should you. Yes, graffiti is dumb. But it’s not enough to revoke a visa. You are losing the plot here. I promise you do not want to turn into North Korea.

I am sure you did your research and discovered that this kid did roughly 100,000 dollars in damage and inconvenienced the family for years since that was how long it would take them to get a new permit and replace the car. Singapore is a country where car ownership is expensive and time-consuming. It was even more so back then.

[Anonymous]

His shouldn't be raising funds for Gaza. That'll get you on the bad side of Betar or Canary Mission and deemed antisemitic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait a sec. Why don’t you give out ALL the information? Stop scaring people.

The article states:

The revocation was backdated to 23 March and allegedly based on his 2022 misdemeanor conviction for graffitiing a semi-truck trailer. Gad said that this is not a deportable offense under the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Sorry. But graffitiing a truck should be grounds for losing a student visa!

It seems obvious that you should not engage in misbehavior when you're a guest in another country? Plain basic common sense if nothing else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Employers don't have to pay payroll taxes on OPT employees, making them 15.3% cheaper to hire.  The FICA fund loses out on $2.5 billion each year due to this.

OPT visas are not merit-based and have no restrictions or limitations.

Fewer than 50% of U.S. STEM graduates are finding jobs in STEM fields, which is a direct result of the OPT program.

The OPT program is harming American STEM grads by giving companies a financial incentive to hire temporary foreign workers, even though the government is actively encouraging American students to study for STEM degrees.

To make matters worse, a federal court has decided that the government does have the power to exempt OPT workers from Social Security and Medicare taxes, making it even cheaper for employers to hire them.

Yes, if you've ever wondered why all your medical professionals seem to be foreign, this is why. It's not necessarily because they are smarter or well-educated. It's because they are cheap af. And they don't mind being underpaid slightly because the conversion rate to their native currency means they are still making BANK.

You guys want immigration reform...THIS is the kind you need to tackle. Not the illegals with ITINs working for $12/hr cleaning McMansions and paying their taxes.

[Anonymous]

In Trump 1.0, an American student stole a poster in North Korea. Yes, a dumb thing to do. But North Korea put him on trial, found him guilty, sentenced him to 15 years in prison with hard labor, then beat him senseless until he was in a coma and just barely alive before they allowed the US to come and get him. On the bright side, I guess, his parents were with him and he was on US soil when he died. Tough on crime!

This happened under Obama min 2015. Trump is the one who secured his release and brought him home to die in 2017 after he took office.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, graffiti, you don’t say. When I was in middle school, there was a major international incident when an American teenager graffitied cars and signs in Singapore and was sentenced to caning. This was the top story for days. Our diplomats negotiated. It sparked a national conversation in America. Sure graffiti isn’t great, we all thought, but what kind of government reacts this way?!

In Trump 1.0, an American student stole a poster in North Korea. Yes, a dumb thing to do. But North Korea put him on trial, found him guilty, sentenced him to 15 years in prison with hard labor, then beat him senseless until he was in a coma and just barely alive before they allowed the US to come and get him. On the bright side, I guess, his parents were with him and he was on US soil when he died. Tough on crime!

The point is: this is not how we do things. Married to a US citizen with an active visa? I do not give a fk about graffiti, and neither should you. Yes, graffiti is dumb. But it’s not enough to revoke a visa. You are losing the plot here. I promise you do not want to turn into North Korea.

If you are going to come to this country on a visa, you damn well better do your best to follow our laws.
I care about graffiti. It is costly. You might not care about it. You probably thought that the destruction during the summer of 2020 was just fine because it was "just property damage."

And, comparing deportation to caning or beating to death is ridiculous.

And I'm sure if this was a white American kid or your kid, we'd be hearing all about how "kids make mistakes", "don't ruin a kid's life over a small mistake"...

FFS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All these arrests of foreign nationals who have green cards and valid visas are a show of force by the Trump administration designed to scare all Americans and all foreigners in our country. Watch out! the arrests say. We are coming for YOU next! That's how dictators behave. They target the most vulnerable people first, then slowly close in, getting closer and closer to you and to me, to anyone who even remotely opposes their regime. This wave of terror has NOTHING to do with antisemitism. That's a cover for this program to instill fear in all of us who are not billionnaire "friends" of the POTUS. It's illegal, but maggots find a way to excuse it. They won't excuse it when the ICE BlackShirts come looking for them, but by then our democracy will be long gone.

at first, they came for the Ford students, but I did not speak up because I was not a foreign student…

If you are a guest in this country the expectation should be zero criminal behavior.

Ship ‘em out