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bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts) Mon Jan 22, 2018, 10:50 AM Jan 2018

ICE detains a Polish doctor and green-card holder lived in the U.S. for nearly 40 years

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 country’s 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.
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.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/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/

I don’t live in Michigan but this needs to be seen in the state forum. This act is Cruelty and stupidity writ large.

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ICE detains a Polish doctor and green-card holder lived in the U.S. for nearly 40 years (Original Post) bronxiteforever Jan 2018 OP

As far as the Republics are concerned, he's just another filthy Polak Dreamer. OregonBlue Jan 2018 #1

This is a just drop in the ocean of cruelty the GOP has unleashed. bronxiteforever Jan 2018 #2

Yes, they are!! OregonBlue Jan 2018 #12

They're fascists RandomAccess Jan 2018 #14

Obviously a kacekwl Jan 2018 #3

Yup.Another win for the GOP the family values party bronxiteforever Jan 2018 #4

Why would he not have become a citizen? PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2018 #5

Article when he was 18 he got 2 misdemeanors bronxiteforever Jan 2018 #7

And two misdemeanor convictions PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2018 #9

Agree. bronxiteforever Jan 2018 #10

I didn't know Poland was a shithole country Motley13 Jan 2018 #6

If he's a lawful Permanent Resident Bayard Jan 2018 #8

Ice can use expunged crimes to deport bronxiteforever Jan 2018 #11

How can you be deported if you're "a lawful permanent resident"??? RandomAccess Jan 2018 #13

That's my question also. llmart Jan 2018 #15

OregonBlue

(7,754 posts)

1. As far as the Republics are concerned, he's just another filthy Polak Dreamer.

Reply to bronxiteforever (Original post)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:03 AM

Jan 2018

bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts)

2. This is a just drop in the ocean of cruelty the GOP has unleashed.

Reply to OregonBlue (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:07 AM

Jan 2018

They are Nativist know nothings.

OregonBlue

(7,754 posts)

12. Yes, they are!!

Reply to bronxiteforever (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:52 AM

Jan 2018

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)

14. They're fascists

Reply to bronxiteforever (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 12:40 PM

Jan 2018

and don't doubt that or forget it for a minute.

kacekwl

(7,017 posts)

3. Obviously a

Reply to bronxiteforever (Original post)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:09 AM

Jan 2018

drain on America. Sarcasm.

bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts)

4. Yup.Another win for the GOP the family values party

Reply to kacekwl (Reply #3)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:14 AM

Jan 2018

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,862 posts)

5. Why would he not have become a citizen?

Reply to bronxiteforever (Original post)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:21 AM

Jan 2018

I understand illegal immigrants need to do their best to fly under the radar and are subject to deportation, but someone who came legally anyway and has lived here for years first off shouldn't be subject to deportation.

But why not become a citizen? Forty years.

bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts)

7. Article when he was 18 he got 2 misdemeanors

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #5)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:27 AM

Jan 2018

According to his “notice to appear” from the Department of Homeland Security, Niec’s detention stems from two misdemeanor convictions from 26 years ago. In January 1992, Niec was convicted of malicious destruction of property under $100. In April of that year, he was convicted of receiving and concealing stolen property over $100 and a financial transaction device.

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.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,862 posts)

9. And two misdemeanor convictions

Reply to bronxiteforever (Reply #7)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:37 AM

Jan 2018

keep a person from citizenship?

This is totally dumb. Clearly he did something stupid, but he was 18 and lots of young people do stupid things.

bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts)

10. Agree.

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #9)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:42 AM

Jan 2018

Motley13

(3,867 posts)

6. I didn't know Poland was a shithole country

Reply to bronxiteforever (Original post)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:23 AM

Jan 2018

Bayard

(22,099 posts)

8. If he's a lawful Permanent Resident

Reply to bronxiteforever (Original post)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:31 AM

Jan 2018

His attorney should get him sprung pretty easily.

Don't these people have anything better to do?

bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts)

11. Ice can use expunged crimes to deport

Reply to Bayard (Reply #8)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 11:49 AM

Jan 2018

Both of the offenses took place when he was a teenager. ...The second of those convictions was eventually expunged from his criminal record, his sister said, as part of a guilty plea through Michigan’s Holmes Youthful Trainee Act, a program intended to help young offenders avoid the stigma of a criminal conviction. But even though the crime was scrubbed off his public record, it can still be used against him for removal from the country, his sister said.
Btw his sister is an attorney

RandomAccess

(5,210 posts)

13. How can you be deported if you're "a lawful permanent resident"???

Reply to bronxiteforever (Original post)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 12:40 PM

Jan 2018

This is getting out of hand. BIGLY.
ETA: I read the thread and saw the misdemeanors. Even more ridiculous.

llmart

(15,540 posts)

15. That's my question also.

Reply to RandomAccess (Reply #13)

Mon Jan 22, 2018, 04:28 PM

Jan 2018

I've worked with many, many permanent residents in the hiring process and was under the impression that once they became permanent residents they were here lawfully here permanently. Isn't that what the term means?

Yes, this is ridiculous.

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