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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Lots of people, including Europeans like the Irish, have overstayed their visas in the past. I bet some MAGA "real Americans" have relatives who have stayed in the US illegally, and then had US born kids.

Get them out of here then. What’s your point? AI is coming and everyone is going to be unemployed. We don’t have unlimited funds for UBI.

[Anonymous]

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

Exactly. OP felt the need to start a whole new thread because it’s a white guy! As if this hasn’t been happening to black and brown people every day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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?

Again, this happens to black/brown people all.the.time. And not just laborers or housekeepers. But college professors, doctors, etc…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Lots of people, including Europeans like the Irish, have overstayed their visas in the past. I bet some MAGA "real Americans" have relatives who have stayed in the US illegally, and then had US born kids.

Get them out of here then. What’s your point? AI is coming and everyone is going to be unemployed. We don’t have unlimited funds for UBI.

We don't have UBI, and if we did, red states would be benefiting more because that is where most of the "takers" in our country live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Because ICE has targets to meet and they're not that good at their job. So they're "catching" those who are openly living in USA who may have some minor visa or green card irregularities, not the violent criminals Trump said he would deport.

[Anonymous]

US police were invented to be slave catchers.

Trump's ICE is designed to be slave traders

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Because ICE has targets to meet and they're not that good at their job. So they're "catching" those who are openly living in USA who may have some minor visa or green card irregularities, not the violent criminals Trump said he would deport.

If they are bad at their job, why aren't they getting fired by the Firer in Chief?
Perhaps you misundertand what their job actually is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Lots of people, including Europeans like the Irish, have overstayed their visas in the past. I bet some MAGA "real Americans" have relatives who have stayed in the US illegally, and then had US born kids.

Get them out of here then. What’s your point? AI is coming and everyone is going to be unemployed. We don’t have unlimited funds for UBI.

The point is some of the very same people pushing MAGA and "get them out of here then" are probably related to those white European visa overstays, maybe even descendants of them. How nice for them that Trump wasn't in office when such people had overstayed their visas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Because ICE has targets to meet and they're not that good at their job. So they're "catching" those who are openly living in USA who may have some minor visa or green card irregularities, not the violent criminals Trump said he would deport.

If they are bad at their job, why aren't they getting fired by the Firer in Chief?
Perhaps you misundertand what their job actually is.

If Trump didn’t fire Hegseth for planning a covert military option on signal, Kash Patel for flying his wannabe country music singer around on government planes and using FBi agents to guard her, Bill Pulte for sharing confidential government data, or Sec Lutnick for hanging around on Epstein island, what makes you think he will fire any of them? Did he fire the “mystery staffer” he blamed for posting racist videos at 3 am from his personal account?

This isn’t “the apprentice” anymore. Trump has plenty of criminals and grifters around him. And a ton of incompetent people.

[Anonymous]

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

They are mostly targeting POC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

MAGA: if you have paperwork violations, you deserve to rot in prison. If you protect a pedophile, you deserve to be POTUS.

1000+ lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Seriously. Even if this is true (and I've heard the opposite), what kind of demented person would think it's appropriate to lock someone up for months in inhumane conditions of a paperwork issue?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Seriously. Even if this is true (and I've heard the opposite), what kind of demented person would think it's appropriate to lock someone up for months in inhumane conditions of a paperwork issue?

MAGA

[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?

He is imprisoned because he is contesting his deportation. He overstayed his tourist visa in 2009. The article from the Irish Times states,

In Buffalo he was interviewed by an Ice agent, who asked if he would sign a form agreeing to his deportation. Culleton said he refused, and instead ticked a box where detainees can state they wish to contest their arrest. He wrote down that his grounds for contesting were that he was married to a US citizen and had a valid work permit.

ICE made a mistake and if you overstay your visa you don't get due process and can be deported, but the erroneously had him down under another category.

Culleton was initially identified as a VWP [visa-waived tourist] overstay, subject to prompt removal with no right to a bond hearing. Yet, at some point, Respondents confused Culleton as having entered under a non-immigrant visa, and provided him with a bond hearing, at which bond was granted.

But then ICE realized their mistake and fought for him not to be released. So he is in a bit of a legal limbo.

He isn't the type of people that ICE should be prioritizing. On the other hand it probably isn't possible for a US citizen to go to Ireland, overstay the tourist visa, start a business and live there for 20 years without paperwork. He should have gotten married years ago to get a green card. He only got a work permit in 2025.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

They are mostly targeting POC.

I’m the OP. To me, the point is that this isn’t just about xenophobia or racism. It’s about Trump and his buddies wanting to kill or enslave most of us in the Blue States. And probably to kill most genuine conservatives, once they’re finished with the liberals.

If this keeps up, being a citizen, white or Republican won’t save most of us who happen to be one of those things.