An Irish woman who has lived legally in the US for four decades has been detained by immigration officials for the last week because of a criminal record dating back almost 20 years.
Cliona Ward, 54, was detained at San Francisco airport on 21 April after returning from Ireland to visit her sick father and is being held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facility in Tacoma, Washington.
Ward holds a green card but has convictions for drug possession from 2007 and 2008, which she believed had been expunged, her family said.
US Citizens have been getting deported, we’re far past that already.
These were all minors of deported parents no? At least there’s a bad reason for it.
I don’t remember reading that rule in the constitution…
There should be a rule that you can’t deport the legal guardian of a US citizen for that matter. All I’m saying is that they have an excuse for deporting them, even if it’s a bad one. I don’t understand the excuse for this case. Is there any?
Tbf this was also a bad reason to detain this woman. They’ll expand it to native-born American criminals, and then “”“criminals.”“”