For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite >agreeing to deportation
Sam Levin
Tue 15 Jul 2025 06.00 EDT
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.
�Nobody is safe from the system if they get pulled into it,� said Thomas, in a >recent interview from his home in Ireland, a few months after his release. >Thomas asked to be identified by a nickname out of fear of facing further >consequences with US immigration authorities.
Despite immediately agreeing to deportation when he was first arrested, Thomas >remained in Ice detention after Donald Trump took office and dramatically ramped
up immigration arrests. Amid increased overcrowding in detention, Thomas was >forced to spend part of his time in custody in a federal prison for criminal >defendants, even though he was being held on an immigration violation.
Thomas was sent back to Ireland in March and was told he was banned from >entering the US for 10 years.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/irish-tourist-ice-detention
Why did ICEstapo hold the man for 100 days in barbaric conditions when he >*already* had a removal order issued at the beginning of his ordeal? Because, as
The Atlantic noted in 2018: "The cruelty is the point." >https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/
If someone is found in a hearing to be deportable, then deport him. Why do those
Nazi whores Noem and Bondi fail to understand that?
On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 08:00:02 -0700, Attila <[email protected]> in alt.atheismThat's right, you filthy Nazi rapist.
with message-id <Sd8eQ.1784992$[email protected]> wrote:
For roughly 100 days, Thomas says he faced harsh detention conditions, despite
agreeing to deportation
Sam Levin
Tue 15 Jul 2025 06.00 EDT
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.
“Nobody is safe from the system if they get pulled into it,” said Thomas, in a
recent interview from his home in Ireland, a few months after his release. >> Thomas asked to be identified by a nickname out of fear of facing further
consequences with US immigration authorities.
Despite immediately agreeing to deportation when he was first arrested, Thomas
remained in Ice detention after Donald Trump took office and dramatically ramped
up immigration arrests. Amid increased overcrowding in detention, Thomas was >> forced to spend part of his time in custody in a federal prison for criminal >> defendants, even though he was being held on an immigration violation.
Thomas was sent back to Ireland in March and was told he was banned from
entering the US for 10 years.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/irish-tourist-ice-detention >>
Why did ICEstapo hold the man for 100 days in barbaric conditions when he
*already* had a removal order issued at the beginning of his ordeal? Because, as
The Atlantic noted in 2018: "The cruelty is the point."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/
If someone is found in a hearing to be deportable, then deport him. Why do those
Nazi whores Noem and Bondi fail to understand that?
Another Rudy ass-kicking to right-wingnuts.
| Sysop: | Keyop |
|---|---|
| Location: | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK |
| Users: | 715 |
| Nodes: | 16 (2 / 14) |
| Uptime: | 41:25:30 |
| Calls: | 12,109 |
| Files: | 15,006 |
| Messages: | 6,518,410 |