Anonymous wrote:I'd like to see his tax returns.

Exactly. It's highly doubtful he did.

And what is doubtful as well is that he was licensed as a plasterer in MA. This protects homeowners from shoddy work and ensures that if a plasterer removes something hazardous such as asbestos containing popcorn ceilings or tiles they are following proper procedures and not cutting corners. MA has strict rules on licensing:

Home Improvement Contractor (HIC) Registration: Any contractor (including a plasterer) who works on an existing, owner-occupied residential property with one to four units must register as an HIC if the total cost of labor and materials exceeds $500. This is a registration process with the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation.

There does not appear to be anyone with his name licensed.

This guy came to the US on the Visa Waiver Program that allows people traveling on certain passports, an Irish passport in his case, to enter the US without applying for a visa. That program allows people to visit the US for tourism for up to 90 days. The catch is that if you use this program to enter the US you waive your right to appeal your removal if you overstay the 90 days (with the exception of making an asylum claim and he said he didn't want to apply for asylum). The fact that a white guy at home depot gets pulled over after driving out of a home depot means his license plate was somehow flagged and this doesn't appear random.

This case rubs me the wrong way because there is reports of this individual complaining detentions is miserable in part because all the Hispanics stick together in detention and they don't speak English as if he doesn't really belong there because he is white and speaks English.

This is someone who could have legally migrated to ANY of the 27 European Union member states without needing visas, permits, or specific work authorization. He would have a leg up migrating to Canada or Australia as well. He has massive advantages that the vast majority of undocumented immigrants don't have who come here with no other options if they want to feed themselves and their families. I have much more sympathy for these migrants and wish for years and years and years there had been more uproar over these hardworking migrants getting deported. But of course the white Irish guy gets the media spotlight.

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Anonymous wrote:This whole overstaying the visa argument is flawed. Yes he did, but that was in the last. It's like prosecuting someone for speeding 15 years ago.

His current situation:
Culleton entered the US in 2009 on a visa waiver programme and overstayed the 90-day limit but after marrying a US citizen, Tiffany Smyth, and applying for lawful permanent residence, he obtained a statutory exemption that allowed him to work, according to his lawyer, Ogor Winnie Okoye.

The detention prevented him from attending the final interview in October for his green card that would have confirmed his legal status, said Okoye. “It’s inexplicable that this man has been in detention.”

That’s ridiculous. More like he was speeding 15 years ago, and KEPT ON SPEEDING even though he knew the rules. The thing that changes is that enforcement has been increased.

It's not the same. We're talking about people's lives, not speeding.

All this bureaucracy creates crimes. If someone has no criminal history and can get a job with enough income to support themselves, they should be allowed to come and stay so long as they continue to meet that bar. What right do any of us have to tell anyone else that they can't move freely around this planet that belongs to us all? That people suffering violence poverty and corruption must stay and endure that because of where they happened to be born and who their parents were. It's stupid. All of this is stupid. Let people live.

Right? Why have borders or laws at all. We should all be free to move wherever we want, whenever we want.

I assume you're being sarcastic, but yes, essentially. So much of what we just accept as necessary and a fact of life contributes to so much unnecessary suffering. Why have we chosen to organize ourselves in ways that leave so many people so vulnerable?

People say they want this, but what they do not see is that it is the very protections that exist in our country (and others) are what made people want to come here in the first place. If we cannot define the boundaries of our country, then do laws apply? Where do they apply, and to whom?
Do we just make laws that apply to the entire planet? What if some people don’t like that?

No. What made this country rich and the reason people come here is because we stole their resources, enslaved their people, and destabilized their countries to enrich ourselves. They come here because there's nothing left in their homes, not because America is just so perfect and exceptional.

I don't know the solutions. But I can recognize that what we're doing now isn't working. We're cooking the planet, resources will become more scarce, and your borders will not save you (or your children and grandchildren) from the scramble to survive that is coming. If we mindlessly continue down this path, we will destroy ourselves.

Virtually everything in your first paragraph is historically inaccurate.

And your second paragraph is the kind of prognostication that makes people look very, very foolish indeed.

I prescribe a cocktail and perhaps few friends IRL.

I don't give a flying flip what you think. It doesn't change what is plainly obvious to anyone willing to look.

Yes, the apocalypse is surely upon us. Plainly obvious. All the result of the capitalist colonialist oppressors. Whatever shall we do?

Wring our hands and pontificate on a message board, of course!

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Anonymous wrote:This whole overstaying the visa argument is flawed. Yes he did, but that was in the last. It's like prosecuting someone for speeding 15 years ago.

His current situation:
Culleton entered the US in 2009 on a visa waiver programme and overstayed the 90-day limit but after marrying a US citizen, Tiffany Smyth, and applying for lawful permanent residence, he obtained a statutory exemption that allowed him to work, according to his lawyer, Ogor Winnie Okoye.

The detention prevented him from attending the final interview in October for his green card that would have confirmed his legal status, said Okoye. “It’s inexplicable that this man has been in detention.”

That’s ridiculous. More like he was speeding 15 years ago, and KEPT ON SPEEDING even though he knew the rules. The thing that changes is that enforcement has been increased.

It's not the same. We're talking about people's lives, not speeding.

All this bureaucracy creates crimes. If someone has no criminal history and can get a job with enough income to support themselves, they should be allowed to come and stay so long as they continue to meet that bar. What right do any of us have to tell anyone else that they can't move freely around this planet that belongs to us all? That people suffering violence poverty and corruption must stay and endure that because of where they happened to be born and who their parents were. It's stupid. All of this is stupid. Let people live.

Right? Why have borders or laws at all. We should all be free to move wherever we want, whenever we want.

I assume you're being sarcastic, but yes, essentially. So much of what we just accept as necessary and a fact of life contributes to so much unnecessary suffering. Why have we chosen to organize ourselves in ways that leave so many people so vulnerable?

People say they want this, but what they do not see is that it is the very protections that exist in our country (and others) are what made people want to come here in the first place. If we cannot define the boundaries of our country, then do laws apply? Where do they apply, and to whom?
Do we just make laws that apply to the entire planet? What if some people don’t like that?

How does making immigration seamless and simple change our laws or boundaries? How would that possibly cause making laws for the planet.

We can still have borders and sovereignty while making immigration and citizenship ( heck how about just work permits?) simpler and more accessible.

Even if immigration were procedurally “seamless” that doesn’t mean there should be unlimited amounts of it.

People complain about the “broken” immigration system but the reality is most Americans do not want unlimited immigration.

So he did a scam marriage after living in the us illegally as a last ditch effort to avoid deportation. Yeah sure no one will figure it out. Luk of the Irish lol

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Anonymous wrote:THOUSANDS are "missing."

Is there any factual reporting on this?

Families and lawyers are being denied access to detainees and not being informed of their whereabouts. The administration denies that these people are missing, of course, but the lack of transparency is making it difficult to verify the claims one way or the other. The fact remains that the loved ones and legal counsel of many taken into ICE custody have not been able to locate them.

The confusion is very much on purpose, and insisting on factual reporting from an authoritarian regime rather listening to the voices of their victims is exactly how you manufacture consent and give cover to this regime for its crimes.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/09/25/men-lost-from-alligator-alcatraz/#

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Anonymous wrote:This whole overstaying the visa argument is flawed. Yes he did, but that was in the last. It's like prosecuting someone for speeding 15 years ago.

His current situation:
Culleton entered the US in 2009 on a visa waiver programme and overstayed the 90-day limit but after marrying a US citizen, Tiffany Smyth, and applying for lawful permanent residence, he obtained a statutory exemption that allowed him to work, according to his lawyer, Ogor Winnie Okoye.

The detention prevented him from attending the final interview in October for his green card that would have confirmed his legal status, said Okoye. “It’s inexplicable that this man has been in detention.”

That’s ridiculous. More like he was speeding 15 years ago, and KEPT ON SPEEDING even though he knew the rules. The thing that changes is that enforcement has been increased.

It's not the same. We're talking about people's lives, not speeding.

All this bureaucracy creates crimes. If someone has no criminal history and can get a job with enough income to support themselves, they should be allowed to come and stay so long as they continue to meet that bar. What right do any of us have to tell anyone else that they can't move freely around this planet that belongs to us all? That people suffering violence poverty and corruption must stay and endure that because of where they happened to be born and who their parents were. It's stupid. All of this is stupid. Let people live.

Right? Why have borders or laws at all. We should all be free to move wherever we want, whenever we want.

I assume you're being sarcastic, but yes, essentially. So much of what we just accept as necessary and a fact of life contributes to so much unnecessary suffering. Why have we chosen to organize ourselves in ways that leave so many people so vulnerable?

People say they want this, but what they do not see is that it is the very protections that exist in our country (and others) are what made people want to come here in the first place. If we cannot define the boundaries of our country, then do laws apply? Where do they apply, and to whom?
Do we just make laws that apply to the entire planet? What if some people don’t like that?

No. What made this country rich and the reason people come here is because we stole their resources, enslaved their people, and destabilized their countries to enrich ourselves. They come here because there's nothing left in their homes, not because America is just so perfect and exceptional.

I don't know the solutions. But I can recognize that what we're doing now isn't working. We're cooking the planet, resources will become more scarce, and your borders will not save you (or your children and grandchildren) from the scramble to survive that is coming. If we mindlessly continue down this path, we will destroy ourselves.

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Anonymous wrote:They could have sent him back to Ireland 5 months ago but instead are essentially keeping him in a concentration camp instead?

No, he has chosen to stay in detention. He will be released if he agrees to deportation. He will not be released back into the US absent legal status that allows him to stay. That status could be conferred by a judge pending his green card issuance, or not.

He has a right to a bond hearing, but they are illegally denying him that. That would get him out while he awaits a hearing on whether he actually violated any immigration law, which has not been determined. He missed his green card hearing because he’s locked up.

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Anonymous wrote:This whole overstaying the visa argument is flawed. Yes he did, but that was in the last. It's like prosecuting someone for speeding 15 years ago.

His current situation:
Culleton entered the US in 2009 on a visa waiver programme and overstayed the 90-day limit but after marrying a US citizen, Tiffany Smyth, and applying for lawful permanent residence, he obtained a statutory exemption that allowed him to work, according to his lawyer, Ogor Winnie Okoye.

The detention prevented him from attending the final interview in October for his green card that would have confirmed his legal status, said Okoye. “It’s inexplicable that this man has been in detention.”

That’s ridiculous. More like he was speeding 15 years ago, and KEPT ON SPEEDING even though he knew the rules. The thing that changes is that enforcement has been increased.

It's not the same. We're talking about people's lives, not speeding.

All this bureaucracy creates crimes. If someone has no criminal history and can get a job with enough income to support themselves, they should be allowed to come and stay so long as they continue to meet that bar. What right do any of us have to tell anyone else that they can't move freely around this planet that belongs to us all? That people suffering violence poverty and corruption must stay and endure that because of where they happened to be born and who their parents were. It's stupid. All of this is stupid. Let people live.

Right? Why have borders or laws at all. We should all be free to move wherever we want, whenever we want.

I assume you're being sarcastic, but yes, essentially. So much of what we just accept as necessary and a fact of life contributes to so much unnecessary suffering. Why have we chosen to organize ourselves in ways that leave so many people so vulnerable?

People say they want this, but what they do not see is that it is the very protections that exist in our country (and others) are what made people want to come here in the first place. If we cannot define the boundaries of our country, then do laws apply? Where do they apply, and to whom?
Do we just make laws that apply to the entire planet? What if some people don’t like that?

How does making immigration seamless and simple change our laws or boundaries? How would that possibly cause making laws for the planet.

We can still have borders and sovereignty while making immigration and citizenship ( heck how about just work permits?) simpler and more accessible.

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Anonymous wrote:This whole overstaying the visa argument is flawed. Yes he did, but that was in the last. It's like prosecuting someone for speeding 15 years ago.

His current situation:
Culleton entered the US in 2009 on a visa waiver programme and overstayed the 90-day limit but after marrying a US citizen, Tiffany Smyth, and applying for lawful permanent residence, he obtained a statutory exemption that allowed him to work, according to his lawyer, Ogor Winnie Okoye.

The detention prevented him from attending the final interview in October for his green card that would have confirmed his legal status, said Okoye. “It’s inexplicable that this man has been in detention.”

That’s ridiculous. More like he was speeding 15 years ago, and KEPT ON SPEEDING even though he knew the rules. The thing that changes is that enforcement has been increased.

It's not the same. We're talking about people's lives, not speeding.

All this bureaucracy creates crimes. If someone has no criminal history and can get a job with enough income to support themselves, they should be allowed to come and stay so long as they continue to meet that bar. What right do any of us have to tell anyone else that they can't move freely around this planet that belongs to us all? That people suffering violence poverty and corruption must stay and endure that because of where they happened to be born and who their parents were. It's stupid. All of this is stupid. Let people live.

Right? Why have borders or laws at all. We should all be free to move wherever we want, whenever we want.

I assume you're being sarcastic, but yes, essentially. So much of what we just accept as necessary and a fact of life contributes to so much unnecessary suffering. Why have we chosen to organize ourselves in ways that leave so many people so vulnerable?

People say they want this, but what they do not see is that it is the very protections that exist in our country (and others) are what made people want to come here in the first place. If we cannot define the boundaries of our country, then do laws apply? Where do they apply, and to whom?
Do we just make laws that apply to the entire planet? What if some people don’t like that?

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Anonymous wrote:This whole overstaying the visa argument is flawed. Yes he did, but that was in the last. It's like prosecuting someone for speeding 15 years ago.

His current situation:
Culleton entered the US in 2009 on a visa waiver programme and overstayed the 90-day limit but after marrying a US citizen, Tiffany Smyth, and applying for lawful permanent residence, he obtained a statutory exemption that allowed him to work, according to his lawyer, Ogor Winnie Okoye.

The detention prevented him from attending the final interview in October for his green card that would have confirmed his legal status, said Okoye. “It’s inexplicable that this man has been in detention.”

That’s ridiculous. More like he was speeding 15 years ago, and KEPT ON SPEEDING even though he knew the rules. The thing that changes is that enforcement has been increased.

It's not the same. We're talking about people's lives, not speeding.

All this bureaucracy creates crimes. If someone has no criminal history and can get a job with enough income to support themselves, they should be allowed to come and stay so long as they continue to meet that bar. What right do any of us have to tell anyone else that they can't move freely around this planet that belongs to us all? That people suffering violence poverty and corruption must stay and endure that because of where they happened to be born and who their parents were. It's stupid. All of this is stupid. Let people live.

Right? Why have borders or laws at all. We should all be free to move wherever we want, whenever we want.

I assume you're being sarcastic, but yes, essentially. So much of what we just accept as necessary and a fact of life contributes to so much unnecessary suffering. Why have we chosen to organize ourselves in ways that leave so many people so vulnerable?

Sure, I guess?
Like, anar

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Anonymous wrote:This whole overstaying the visa argument is flawed. Yes he did, but that was in the last. It's like prosecuting someone for speeding 15 years ago.

His current situation:
Culleton entered the US in 2009 on a visa waiver programme and overstayed the 90-day limit but after marrying a US citizen, Tiffany Smyth, and applying for lawful permanent residence, he obtained a statutory exemption that allowed him to work, according to his lawyer, Ogor Winnie Okoye.

The detention prevented him from attending the final interview in October for his green card that would have confirmed his legal status, said Okoye. “It’s inexplicable that this man has been in detention.”

That’s ridiculous. More like he was speeding 15 years ago, and KEPT ON SPEEDING even though he knew the rules. The thing that changes is that enforcement has been increased.

It's not the same. We're talking about people's lives, not speeding.

All this bureaucracy creates crimes. If someone has no criminal history and can get a job with enough income to support themselves, they should be allowed to come and stay so long as they continue to meet that bar. What right do any of us have to tell anyone else that they can't move freely around this planet that belongs to us all? That people suffering violence poverty and corruption must stay and endure that because of where they happened to be born and who their parents were. It's stupid. All of this is stupid. Let people live.

Right? Why have borders or laws at all. We should all be free to move wherever we want, whenever we want.

I assume you're being sarcastic, but yes, essentially. So much of what we just accept as necessary and a fact of life contributes to so much unnecessary suffering. Why have we chosen to organize ourselves in ways that leave so many people so vulnerable?

DP.

Bc the alternative has, historically, been far worse.

Please explain

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Anonymous wrote:This whole overstaying the visa argument is flawed. Yes he did, but that was in the last. It's like prosecuting someone for speeding 15 years ago.

His current situation:
Culleton entered the US in 2009 on a visa waiver programme and overstayed the 90-day limit but after marrying a US citizen, Tiffany Smyth, and applying for lawful permanent residence, he obtained a statutory exemption that allowed him to work, according to his lawyer, Ogor Winnie Okoye.

The detention prevented him from attending the final interview in October for his green card that would have confirmed his legal status, said Okoye. “It’s inexplicable that this man has been in detention.”

That’s ridiculous. More like he was speeding 15 years ago, and KEPT ON SPEEDING even though he knew the rules. The thing that changes is that enforcement has been increased.

It's not the same. We're talking about people's lives, not speeding.

All this bureaucracy creates crimes. If someone has no criminal history and can get a job with enough income to support themselves, they should be allowed to come and stay so long as they continue to meet that bar. What right do any of us have to tell anyone else that they can't move freely around this planet that belongs to us all? That people suffering violence poverty and corruption must stay and endure that because of where they happened to be born and who their parents were. It's stupid. All of this is stupid. Let people live.

Right? Why have borders or laws at all. We should all be free to move wherever we want, whenever we want.

I assume you're being sarcastic, but yes, essentially. So much of what we just accept as necessary and a fact of life contributes to so much unnecessary suffering. Why have we chosen to organize ourselves in ways that leave so many people so vulnerable?

DP.

Bc the alternative has, historically, been far worse.

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Anonymous wrote:This whole overstaying the visa argument is flawed. Yes he did, but that was in the last. It's like prosecuting someone for speeding 15 years ago.

His current situation:
Culleton entered the US in 2009 on a visa waiver programme and overstayed the 90-day limit but after marrying a US citizen, Tiffany Smyth, and applying for lawful permanent residence, he obtained a statutory exemption that allowed him to work, according to his lawyer, Ogor Winnie Okoye.

The detention prevented him from attending the final interview in October for his green card that would have confirmed his legal status, said Okoye. “It’s inexplicable that this man has been in detention.”

That’s ridiculous. More like he was speeding 15 years ago, and KEPT ON SPEEDING even though he knew the rules. The thing that changes is that enforcement has been increased.

It's not the same. We're talking about people's lives, not speeding.

All this bureaucracy creates crimes. If someone has no criminal history and can get a job with enough income to support themselves, they should be allowed to come and stay so long as they continue to meet that bar. What right do any of us have to tell anyone else that they can't move freely around this planet that belongs to us all? That people suffering violence poverty and corruption must stay and endure that because of where they happened to be born and who their parents were. It's stupid. All of this is stupid. Let people live.

Right? Why have borders or laws at all. We should all be free to move wherever we want, whenever we want.

I assume you're being sarcastic, but yes, essentially. So much of what we just accept as necessary and a fact of life contributes to so much unnecessary suffering. Why have we chosen to organize ourselves in ways that leave so many people so vulnerable?

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Anonymous wrote:This whole overstaying the visa argument is flawed. Yes he did, but that was in the last. It's like prosecuting someone for speeding 15 years ago.

His current situation:
Culleton entered the US in 2009 on a visa waiver programme and overstayed the 90-day limit but after marrying a US citizen, Tiffany Smyth, and applying for lawful permanent residence, he obtained a statutory exemption that allowed him to work, according to his lawyer, Ogor Winnie Okoye.

The detention prevented him from attending the final interview in October for his green card that would have confirmed his legal status, said Okoye. “It’s inexplicable that this man has been in detention.”

That’s ridiculous. More like he was speeding 15 years ago, and KEPT ON SPEEDING even though he knew the rules. The thing that changes is that enforcement has been increased.

It's not the same. We're talking about people's lives, not speeding.

All this bureaucracy creates crimes. If someone has no criminal history and can get a job with enough income to support themselves, they should be allowed to come and stay so long as they continue to meet that bar. What right do any of us have to tell anyone else that they can't move freely around this planet that belongs to us all? That people suffering violence poverty and corruption must stay and endure that because of where they happened to be born and who their parents were. It's stupid. All of this is stupid. Let people live.

Right? Why have borders or laws at all. We should all be free to move wherever we want, whenever we want.

Anonymous wrote:THOUSANDS are "missing."

Is there any factual reporting on this?