Emerson Colindres had no criminal record and was attending appointment with ICE when detained

A teenage student and soccer stand-out was arrested by immigration authorities four days after his high school graduation ceremony in Ohio earlier this month, and deported to Honduras this week, his family has said.

Emerson Colindres, 19, had no criminal record and was attending a regularly scheduled appointment with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Cincinnati when he was detained on 4 June, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.

His parents told the newspaper he was deported on Wednesday to a country he has not lived in since he was 8 years old.

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[+] -35 points 1 year ago (41 children)
  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Because this:

    Administration officials insist that only criminals and those with adjudicated final orders of removal are being targeted. Recent data shows a surge in people with no criminal history being targeted. Being in the US without legal status is a civil offense, not a crime.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    There just aren’t enough criminal immigrants to reach our lofty goals. Turns out people motivated enough to leave their nation of birth and come here despite all the obstacles generally don’t want to fuck around once they arrive.

    We can kick out immigrants and restrict international students until the cows come home. We will be worse for it because the US consistently fails to educate and up skill our own citizens en masse.

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  • [+] -45 points 1 year ago (7 children)
  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You are defending tryanny. Think about that a bit.

    Laws are important. Heh. Maybe ice should try following the law then?

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  • [+] -38 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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    Do you defend early American slavery? Just wondering, I mean it was the law and all.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Why does the article tell us about his hobbies or when he graduated? It is completely irrelevant.

    The relevance is two-fold:

    1. The American people were promised the deportation of dangerous criminals. Judging by the fact that this kid was busy working on his education and excelling in community sports tells us he likely wasn’t engaged in criminal activities, we know where he’s been. This highlights the failure of the mass immigration plan and how devastating it can be on the lives of innocent people.

    2. With all that being said, why are tax dollars being wasted on this?

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  • [+] -55 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    "The law" is not some divinely inspired rules. It is what we use to affect outcomes we want. It is irrelevant in a discussion of right and wrong.

    When it comes to a discussion over whether somebody ought or ought not be allowed to be in the country the person matters more than the law.

    These people were doing no harm and were actively participating in their community. The law is wrong if it says to deport them.

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  • [+] -17 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    Modern law demands permission to cross a border.

    God you sound like a bad '80s sci-fi where a post-apocalyptic group of children worship "the laaaaaw" and talk about things being "foretold"...

    The "law" does no such thing. It doesn't have wants or needs. It does not exist without humans since laws are written by humans and based on human morality. It does not exist to serve itself, it exists to serve society.

    Deporting people who have been here for a friggin' decade, who are paying taxes, who are participating in society, and who have done no wrong, is wrong. I've never seen anybody defend that as being "the right thing to do" - typically they just talk about "the law" at that point.

    It does not matter what the law says. If the law says they should be deported then the law is wrong and ought to be changed.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (19 children)

    I guess we have different values.

    I don't see it as a moral good to kick someone out of the country if they would make a good citizen. I don't see it as an economic good to remove a productive member of society. I don't see how the ongoing ICE campaign to instill fear in our immigrant population is good for our communities.

    Just because it's the law doesn't make it right.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    You said it better than I've ever heard, and what you've said is going to become part of my talking points against all the bullshit and cruelty of ICE and Trump's war on non-white people.

    You're why I'm on Lemmy.

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  • [+] -53 points 1 year ago (17 children)
  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Maybe you can help me understand how kicking this kid out makes our country better?

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  • [+] -43 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    The kid had 10 years to do what exactly?

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  • [+] -10 points 1 year ago (7 children)
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Sure, but im curious what you think an underage child can do about it themselves.

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  • [+] -9 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Walk me through a ten year old obtaining any legal documents pertaining to their citizenship in the US.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Deleted their comment after people expressed their disagreement. The sign of someone who is not-at-all a fucking coward.

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