The son of a U.S. citizen and veteran – but without citizenship in any country – was deported USA Arrive in Jamaica in late May.
Jermaine Thomas’ deportation, recently reported Austin Chroniclesis one of the growing number of immigration cases involving relatives of military service members, and even veterans themselves, which are struggling by the Trump administration’s massive deportation program.
As the Chronicle reports, Thomas was born at a US military base in Germany and was a father of an American citizen who was originally born at Jamaica Now dead. Thomas has no citizenship in us, Germany or Jamaica, but Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) agency deported him to Jamaica, which he never stepped onto.
Thomas was imprisoned for two and a half months while awaiting the latest news of the case. He was previously the center of the U.S. Supreme Court case regarding his unique legal status.
The federal government argues that Thomas, who had previously received an expulsion order, was not a citizen simply because he was born at U.S. Army Base and had a previous criminal conviction to conduct a case against his case. He requested a review of the order, but the Supreme Court denied him, finding that his father “has not met human physical existence requirements.” [law] Thomas is valid when he was born”.
Thomas, from Jamaica, told the Chronicle: “If you are in the U.S. Army and the military deploys you somewhere and you have to have a baby there – your child makes a mistake after you die – and you put your life in this country, would you kick the kids with them?”
He added to his father: “It was just Memorial Day [in late May]. None of you respect his service and legacy. ”
In recent months US Army As the government continues to force mass deportations, family members of veterans are increasingly detained by immigration officials.
A US Marine Corps said in an interview with CNN that he felt “betrayed” after immigration officials Beat and arrest his father In beautification work. The arrested man moved to the U.S. from Mexico in the 1990s without any documents but was detained this month in landscaping at a restaurant in Santa Ana, California.
In another recent case, the wife of another Marine veteran was detained by Ice despite still breastfeeding her three-month-old daughter. according to Associated Pressthe veteran’s wife has been conducting a process to obtain legal residency.
The Trump administration has stepped up efforts to detain and expel people across the country. White House officials at May meeting Press ICE adds to its arrests of at least 3,000 people per day. This will result in one million arrests by ICE every year.
Following the intense meeting, ICE officials added law enforcement actions, including detaining an increasing number of people with no criminal record. Undoing a document is a civil violation, not a crime.
according to Recent Guardian AnalysisAs of mid-June, ICE data showed that the agency arrested more than 11,700 people in immigration detention despite no record of their charges or criminal charges. That’s 1,271% higher than the data released on ice detention before Trump’s second term began.
In March, ice officials Arrest the daughter of a U.S. veteran Always engaged in a legal battle with her identity. Alma Bowman, 58, was detained by ice while on boarding the Atlanta field office, although she has lived in the United States since she was 10 years old.
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Bowman was born in the Philippines during the Vietnam War and is a member of the U.S. Navy Service from Illinois. She has lived in Georgia for nearly 50 years. Her permanent residency was revoked after a conviction of a minor 20 years ago, leading her to continue her legal battle to gain U.S. citizenship.
Bowman was detained by ICE at a troubled facility in Georgia, allegedly underwent non-consensual gynecological procedures for women in custody. In 2020, she has been a major witness to lawyers and journalists about the controversy. according to Intercepted interview From that year on, Bowman said she always thought she was an American citizen.
In another recent case, U.S. Army veterans and green card holders left He went to Korea by himself. His deportation order was due to allegations related to drug possession and issues related to drug addiction after being injured in combat in the 1980s, for which he received a prestigious purple heart citation.
“I can’t believe this is happening in the United States,” Sae Joon Park, who has legal permanent residence, told National Public Radio. “It shocked me – like, [it is] The country I strive for. ”
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