ICE detains a Polish doctor and green-card holder who has lived in the U.S. for nearly 40 years
Source: WaPo
Lukasz Niec was 5 years old when his parents brought him and his sister to the United States from Poland. With two suitcases in tow, his parents both doctors left behind a country on the verge of social turmoil. It was 1979, about two years before the countrys authoritarian communist government declared martial law.
Niec received a temporary green card and, in 1989, became a lawful permanent resident. He grew up in Michigan, went to medical school, became a doctor, and raised a daughter and stepdaughter.
Niec, now 43, never fathomed that his legal status in the United States would become an issue. With a renewed green card, and nearly 40 years in the country, his Polish nationality was an afterthought for Niec, his sister told The Washington Post. He doesnt even speak Polish.
But on Tuesday morning, immigration authorities arrested Niec at his home, just after he had sent his 12-year-old stepdaughter off to school. Niec, a physician specializing in internal medicine at Bronson Healthcare Group in Kalamazoo, Mich., has been detained in a county jail ever since, awaiting a bond hearing and possible deportation.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/01/22/ice-detains-a-polish-doctor-and-green-card-holder-who-has-lived-in-the-u-s-for-nearly-40-years/?utm_term=.b832c42c7dcd
Must have pissed off a member of the Romney family.
Link to tweet
pnwest
(3,266 posts)legal and in-order green card?
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)He pleaded guilty to the charges under the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act, which allows young first time offenders to avoid a criminal record if they never offend again.
The family said Niec was unaware when he accepted the plea agreement that ICE does not honor it.
'Now, they're using this expunged case that's stamped non-public record against him,' Niec-Villaire told WWMT.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)pnwest
(3,266 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)He could have been 60 years old with a misdemeanor from when he was 15, and they would still fuck up his life for no good reason.
Even Javert would be saying: "Are you fucking serious?"
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)riversedge
(70,242 posts)The family said they have not been told why Niec was arrested, but they believe it stems from a misdemeanor arrest when he was 17.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5295795/Doctor-fled-Poland-better-life-faces-deportation.html#ixzz54xy83YlS
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pangaia
(24,324 posts)We ALL know exactly how is this possible.
How could Nazis arrest Jews? Impossible..
How could Stalin have his own generals shot? (Shostakovich barely kept his life!)
How could Saddam.......?
OnlinePoker
(5,721 posts)This makes no sense when someone turns their life around, becomes a doctor and has a child in the country. I guess they have to show they're not just targeting brown people in their purges.
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)Not disclosing criminal activity on your applications can put you in jeopardy years later when found out.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)He had a legal green card.
He came here at the age of five.
Only thing I wonder about is why he didnt go for citizenship.
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)Last edited Mon Jan 22, 2018, 04:56 PM - Edit history (1)
And did not disclose it. Maybe that's the reason.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)He was living with a green card.
Not sure why he didnt but that was his decision.
There was no reason for him to worry - so he thought.
Pathetic idiocy on the part of ICE.
rocktivity
(44,576 posts)and shithole countries.
rocktivity
marble falls
(57,099 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)laserhaas
(7,805 posts)SpankMe
(2,957 posts)...maybe this'll finally get some attention.
<snark>
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)DFW
(54,403 posts)It's not just for Hispanics and Haitians any more.
Freedom and justice for all! Oops. OK, maybe not.............
DUgosh
(3,056 posts)It is about the history of Polish immigrants in America and how they were viewed by white supremacists.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Girard442
(6,075 posts)Just what a dictator wants.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Whatever he can do, to frug the status quo, and irk U.D. little people ...he will do.
iluvtennis
(19,862 posts)dhill926
(16,340 posts)goddamn, fuck this shit. Hope a blue tsunami sweeps all the assholes into a bottomless shithole.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Renew Deal
(81,861 posts)salin
(48,955 posts)Boggles the mind.
erronis
(15,290 posts)Would be put on inflatable rafts and pulled out to the middle of the ocean. Admirable Trump at the forecastle, Cap'n Ryan stroking the rudder, and Mitch blowin' hard into the air-valve to keep the boat afloat. The rest of the sycophants could really start praying to their sweet savior.
Wonder which tub-o-lard will go into the drink the first. We could send out an alert to the sharks who have a fondness for greasy buggers.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)3catwoman3
(24,006 posts)...fucking RIDICULOUS!
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)moonseller66
(430 posts)Ya know, if you say ICE ICE together real fast, it almost sounds like "SS."
Maybe that's just me?
erronis
(15,290 posts)PatSeg
(47,496 posts)that we don't hear about? What on earth does this accomplish?
MFM008
(19,814 posts)they detained someone WHITE??
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Could it be that they want their readers to believe that only browns and blacks will be deported?
awesomerwb1
(4,268 posts)Two misdemeanors shouldn't make you deportable, even less so if they were committed before turning 18.
Why didn't he become a citizen? With a green card you can apply for citizenship after 5 years??
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Leastwise thats the way it used to be.
Sanity Claws
(21,849 posts)Didnt apply for citizenship. He would have had to disclose them if he applied. He might have decided not to bother than to dredge up this ancient history
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)Do you want him using his expertise to heal people while there are that many native-born doctors struggling to just survive?
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"With up to a million American-born doctors unemployed..."
All 0.8% of them... it's a tsunami of wasted health care opportunities, I tellsya!!!
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)U.S. cities and communities with large Polish American populations are largely concentrated in the Upper Midwestern United States. Paulie Ryan has some explaining to do.
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)Because Niec was convicted of two crimes involving moral turpitude, stemming from two separate incidents, he is subject to removal, immigration authorities wrote in the notice to appear, citing the Immigration and Nationality Act.
(The doctor has also pleaded guilty to drunk driving once, and was tried and acquitted for domestic violence in 2013. (His current wife is his second one.) It doesn't appear that those events impacted this.)
The article notes that these types of removals have always happened. But in the past, legal residents (green card holders) who committed low-level crimes were often not subjected to removal, even if that could have happened. Now, they're going after more people, and the actions are getting more publicity because of Trump's idiocy.
But the Trump administration has issued sweeping new guidelines expanding the range of immigrants that count as high priority for deportation, including low-level offenders, and those with no criminal record regardless of how long they have lived in the country. Now, immigrants feel the threat of deportation more than ever, advocates say, whether they are residing here legally or not.
joanbarnes
(1,722 posts)though I hope she can get us all into Poland, especially her grandkids, who will have a better future there.
Jarqui
(10,126 posts)so they put him in jail?
They do not realize that they hurt their own discriminatory cause doing crap like this - which illustrates how ignorant and stupid they really are.
I'm still reeling over that father in Michigan
https://www.freep.com/story/news/2018/01/21/deportation-dad-garcia-family/1050226001/
I was wondering if DNA tests should be mandatory for racists and the results published to expose how impure most of these racists really are. Of course, the evangelicals would find something unholy about that. But how is that different from the testing they want done before an abortion?
Hekate
(90,714 posts)Ohiogal
(32,005 posts)Government terrorism. Perfect description.
This is appalling and unacceptable.
Pull the lever, voters, and flush the Trump sewage away next fall!
Delmette2.0
(4,166 posts)Immigrants who are criminals, bringing in drugs and raping. So they can now focus on the illegal immigrants who have gotten an education and done more good for their communities than harm.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)criminals.