5mo ago

ICE detained a Mass. man with no criminal record — and sent him to Texas

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Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20250207123026/https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/02/06/immigrant-detained-ice-plymouth-jail-texas-deport

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Sending someone from a functional state to Texas should be barred under the 8th amendment.
The Trump administration has vowed to conduct mass deportations, starting with immigrants charged with crimes. But Amaral is an example of ICE apparently targeting non-criminals as well.
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By ICE they mean the Gestapo.
- Waffen ICE-ICE
  
  ICE ICE baby, Sig heil.
Okay, before anyone jumps down my throat, I'm not defending this. It's awful and shouldn't happen.
That being said, reading the headline, I first got the impression that this was a case of them arresting and transporting a citizen. People should make sure to read the article.
- Yeah, I mean it's a tough spot. Neither party has done much to reform the system for legal immigration. That means we have plenty of illegal immigrants that are meaningful contributors to our society. But technically they are still illegal. So the poloticians of the past left the door open for what trump is doing. Trump is to blame for doing it, but the rest are to blame for leaving things in such a vulnerable state.
  
  The article literally says people like him didn't go unpunished in the past, they just get released on bond rather than taken away from their family and imprisoned.
  Because all he did was overstay a tourist visa.
The amount of time i spent trying to figure out what mass was...
- Force divided by acceleration
  
  Why the hell did both of us get downvoted?
Man, thats heartbreaking. I get it. He broke the law, but the bond system is there for exactly these types of cases. Instead, they’ll count this hard working family man in the number of “criminals” they’ve expelled from the country.
- He did not break the law. That's why there's an article about him.
  Entered the country legally and had current paperwork.
  But the racists at ICE don't care. They see brown and freak the duck out.
  
  Except the article says that his visa was expired. So on the most stupid of technical levels, he broke the law because he overstayed on an expired visa. Something that deserves an annoyed "You should've renewed this earlier," and that's it, but enough of a technicality for the racists to legally ruin his life.
- How do you know he broke the law exactly?
- I get it. He broke the law,
  No he didn't. He overstayed his visa. Some might think that's pedantic, but I believe it's an important distinction
  
  But overstaying the visa is breaking the law.

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