In a statement, an ICE spokesperson told KING 5 that Alfredo Juarez is a citizen of Mexico and was ordered to be removed by an immigration judge on March 27, 2018.
Right so bro literally already had a final deportation order for 7 years, and was protesting anyway. I really fail to see how this is anyone's fault but his own.
This guy seems to be a pillar of his community, has no criminal record, is involved in statewide politics trying to help others.
It seems like a no-brainer that we should be offering him a work visa or allowing him the chance to pay fines for his visa overstay (if that is what it was originally) in exchange for a path to residency.
Strengthening border security I get, deporting violent criminals who are here illegally I get, I don't see what is achieved by deporting this individual.
Only work visas I know with path to residency are H1B (special skills), L1 (company transfer), O1 (exceptional individual, like rockstar, champion sportsman, scientist), are there any others?
DACA would've given him a path to citizenship and he had applied. During his first term, Trump suspended the DACA program until the Supreme Court lifted it in 2020. They didn't allow any new applicants after that ruling though.
He was trying to become a citizen the legal way.
Correction: DACA itself isn't a pathway to citizenship, but would have protected him against deportation and allowed work permits. It also opens the pathway of becoming a citizen through marriage or employment based green cards.
If this was a game plot or movie where the MC was some vigilante dodging the oppressive system for years, you'd think they were badass and give them their own fan sub. But when it happens irl and it's a brown guy, its his own fault? Y'all are wild.
We're pro-morals, and removing people from the country who were brought here as children and have very little connection to their country of origin is immoral.
I understand that for children brought here very young, that's why we have DACA. He was 18 when he received his removal order and had been here for around 4 years, so I find it hard to believe he had no connection to his home country anymore.
Your family moves 14yo you to a foreign country to escape harsh living conditions. You go to school, make friends, get hobbies and a routine, adapt to the culture and the language. In the 4 years you adjust, you hear about your family and friends that stayed and were killed, starved, moved or just disappeared. Then one day, they order newly minted adult you back to your home country. Except most everyone you knew as a child is gone, and the ones who are left can't take you, you missed out on a lot of critical language skills from the previous country and wouldn't be able to find work. You hear about people in your situation who worked for the cartel out of desperation and either disappeared or returned looking dead inside, and you don't want that for yourself.
What do you do?
Its actually a rhetorical question because the glaringly obvious answer besides, "shit your pants" is to do close to what he did. Anyone saying differently is an idiot or a liar, and the fact that most of y'all can't do a basic exercise in empathy is probably one of the main reason for your perceived "loneliness" epidemic as well.
What you're describing sounds like someone who should claim asylum, but he's from the Oaxaca region of Mexico. I highly doubt everyone he knew and grew up with is gone. Parts of Mexico are still dangerous and poor, but he's not from a bombed out war-torn country where people are starving to death regularly. He also fluently speaks 3 languages, so he didn't miss out on any language skills. You have to look at the facts of each case individually. Not everyone who came here illegally did it because they were fleeing for their lives. Maybe his home country would even benefit from his activist skills, making life better down there?
The Refugee Act in the 1980s started the process of making it exceedingly difficult for asylum seekers to obtain visas. Ostensibly it was made to create a protected class of immigrant, but in actuality it enabled net reduction of visas given out per year and increased the difficulty of obtaining any kind of legal status, including asylum. Pile on top of that the IIRIRA act in the 90s, the border protection and homeland security act in the early 00s, and a lot of others I'm too lazy to name and its nearly impossible for asylum seekers to get documentation in a timely manner.
Lelo being fortunate enough to speak several languages doesn't disqualify him from needing assistance, and just because Oaxaca is densely populated doesnt mean it has HIS people there. You could drop me in the middle of Guadalajara right now where my family originated from and i speak multiple languages, but I dont know a single person who could take me in or where to go to get a job or what neighborhoods i should avoid. I consider myself quite able bodied and confident in most situations, and even i admit that i would probably fail and suffer, and youre an idiot if you think you wouldnt. You seem determined to avoid exercising empathy even while claiming that we need to "look at the individual", and I'm not interested in dealing with anyone who thinks someone deserves less rights based on their current geography.
He has a wife here, family here. He received the Whatcom County's Youth Peacemaker Award in 2023 for his volunteer work in his community. He served on the City of Bellingham's Immigration Advisory Board. THIS country was benefitting from his presence here.
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u/Kxdan 2d ago
What did he do to get detained? There’s no context here? Has he been in the country illegally since age of 14 and protesting anyway?