Why doesn't ICE go after the real criminals. The drug lords that trump paid money for them to move to the USA.

so they get a sick fellow on a tourist visa visiting his girlfriend. Much easier

They are in the tank for TrumpCo.

You do have to respect them. But I don’t know what benefit there is to keeping him for 100 days. Just deport him asap and save the time and money.

Plus wonder how much money was made and by whom holding him for 100 days.

He voluntarily signed removal papers on December 17, when Biden still had more than a month in office.

Something is not right with this story.

To see that the initial decision was made December 17, since he signed voluntary removal papers on that day - and the initial 1/3 of the detention was still while Biden was president, right?

There's a lot of confirmation bias going on in the article (which implied Trump made the decision), and this thread.

Immigration policy has been inhuman for a long time, including under Democratic leadership. It is undeniably worse now - but our hands are not clean in this case.

By then they had a backlog

Biden was no slouch, unfortunately, on deportation

… then people should be able to freely cross borders, too. ‘Cmon CEOs, you call us “human capital”, let us fly. Freely!

It's not a popular opinion, but I don't believe my parents' location should determine where I am allowed to live.

Democrats have had disgusting anti-immigration practices for decades, to some extent trying to outdo Trump to win votes by proving we are tough on illegal immigration.

to where they used to be (Kennedy?) we would win every time.

It is never a good idea to try to win by stealing the other side's (bad) ideas. It just turns us into a lesser version of them - and I don't want to be (or vote for) any version of them.

Why are we incarcerating people for civil issues. Issue a fine. If you have not paid your fine then you can't be granted another visa.
Exceptions should be made for illnesses and situations out of people's control. If he had Covid or other infectious disease, do you really want him on a plane?
This administration's harsh tactics make no sense. Well, it makes sense for the people profiting. The private prisons and every company that has a contract with these private prisons.

And I got some disdain for suggesting ice may have slowed down releasing or deporting people the final weeks of the Biden administration.

His medical injury was in October, and his doctors ordered him not to fly for 8-12 weeks. He was planning to leave December 8. The summary makes it seem like he had a fee days notice to seek an extension - when he actually had close to 8 weeks. It isn't clear when he started to seek an extension.

He agreed to be removed on December 17, while Biden was still president for a month . . . So this isn't all on Trump, despite the article focusing on Trump's default to detention over removal.

He referenced a minor engagement with police as the trigger for the initial ICE detention. No description as to what it was. I'm suspicious they is more to this story to have the Biden administration detain him, rather than just grant the voluntary removal.

Cost? Maybe $1500.

Keep him in jail for 100 days? Who knows how much that cost?

We are truly stupid. We make the absolute worst decisions and then complain about the decisions we make.

Think about it.

Something is fishy here.

We, as a nation, often do very stupid things for very stupid reasons. I try not to second guess why that is, but it continues through the years.

Common sense is not highly valued here, I'm afraid.

I just think that people living in glass houses shouldn't throw stones - or at least should not throw stones while pretending their own house is rock solid.

Our (Democratic) policies on immigration have been nearly as bad as Republicans for years - we're just less explicitly racist about it. Trump is a whole other level, but more than 30% of this particular horrendous story is on us. (You could make a reasonable argument that all of it is on us, since had we taken his voluntary removal offer, Trump would not have had a chance to continue the detention once he took office.

ever

Turned down a free ticket from a sibling on the weekend

our relatives overseas don't want to come to America because of this shit.

Not worth the bother anymore - tgey can come down here

I wonder if his phone or laptop had a browser history of anti Trump or liberal
discussions?

Trump has his thugs in ICE. I wonder how many are former J-6th members or
part of the 150,000 fired law enforcement officials who Trump had their federal
records expunged.

Not gonna be long till more Americans are picked up, shipped out of the country,
and killed.

Thomas and his girlfriend, Malone, were visiting her family in Savannah, Georgia, when Thomas suffered a mental health episode, he and Malone recalled. The two had a conflict in their hotel room and someone overheard it and called the police, they said.

Malone, who requested to use her middle name to protect her boyfriend’s identity, said she was hoping officers would get him treatment and did not want to see him face criminal charges. But police took him to jail, accusing him of “falsely imprisoning” his girlfriend in the hotel room, a charge Malone said she did not support. He was soon released on bond, but instead of walking free, was picked up by US immigration authorities, who transported him 100 miles away to an Ice processing center in Folkston, Georgia. The facility is operated by the private prison company Geo Group on behalf of Ice, with capacity to hold more than 1,000 people.

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Malone, his girlfriend, said she plans to move to Ireland to live with him. “It’s not an option for him to come here and I don’t want to be in America anymore,” she said.

…he had more due process than was necessary. He agreed to the removal order in December, they should have just removed him then.

I'm assuming that he was white. This is one of the few times I've heard about them going after white people.