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For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite agreeing to deportation

Thomas, a 35-year-old tech worker and father of three from Ireland, came to West Virginia to visit his girlfriend last fall. It was one of many trips he had taken to the US, and he was authorized to travel under a visa waiver program that allows tourists to stay in the country for 90 days.

He had planned to return to Ireland in December, but was briefly unable to fly due to a health issue, his medical records show. He was only three days overdue to leave the US when an encounter with police landed him in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) custody.

From there, what should have been a minor incident became a nightmarish ordeal: he was detained by Ice in three different facilities, ultimately spending roughly 100 days behind bars with little understanding of why he was being held – or when he’d get out.

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[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 80 points 6 days ago (2 children)

"he's been here too long, keep him here longer!"

The most conservative thing I've read all day

[–] dropped_packet@lemmy.zip 29 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Detaining people isn't free either, we also paid to keep them here longer. The whole thing is immensely stupid.

[–] halowpeano@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago

Only if you believe their words, which you absolutely should not. A for profit prison management company got paid for 100 days detention when they would have gotten 0 if they let this guy leave.

Everything working out as planned.

Private prisons have an incentive to keep people like him in the system as long as possible.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Lives gets destroyed, everyone pay for it, money is diverted from actually useful stuff, but all this is a low price to pay for a handful of mafia bosses to get even richer.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

You forget that the camps are private, so they need to keep him there to get paid. 100 days seems like about enough.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 40 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Irish are non-white again. We're going back to the 1800s, baby.

Look up the unjust hangings of Dominic Daley and James Halligan in 1806. There was no evidence whatsoever that they committed the murder they were accused of other than maybe being in the area at the time and even that was based on shaky grounds. The defense even had their closing statement saying that the prosecution had no evidence other than 'aww come on! They're Irish! You know how they're like! Besides, someone has to hang for that murder!'

[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 days ago

Stop traveling to that shithole.

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

"Armoured cars, tanks and guns! Came to take away our sons! But we must stand behind the men, the men behind the wire!"

Latinos and Irish united in their fight against immigration officials!

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Like 80 years ago. Nobody was safe from Nazi German GeStaPo. Why do people expect safety from or accountability of the Nazi American GeStaPo?

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 6 days ago

At least this (probably) white guy, who speaks the same language, got to suffer on taxpayers' dollars. What a relief. /s

tbf I‘m glad it doesn’t only happen to people from poor countries

[–] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Guess the "Luck of the Irish" ran out

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 5 points 6 days ago
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