Re:ICE held an American man in custody for 1,273 days. He’s ...
by oh_sigh on Friday April 27, 2018 @08:25PM
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It seems like this was not a mistake in identifying him as a citizen - there was a question if he was legally a citizen:
> Even after ICE realized the error in identifying his parents, federal lawyers refused to free Watson. They seized on a new U.S. reading of Jamaican law to argue Watson should be deported because his father was not his legal guardian when they left the island nation.
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> An immigration judge ordered him deported. The Board of Immigration Appeals agreed.
>It was only when Watson’s appeal reached U.S. District Court and a court-appointed attorney pressed ICE that immigration authorities conducted the internal legal review they should have done when Watson first claimed to be a citizen. The review found the government had misinterpreted an arcane aspect of immigration law. ICE abruptly freed Watson.
Re:ICE held an American man in custody for 1,273 days. He’s ...
by tonyztan on Friday April 27, 2018 @09:26PM
(#16945652)
Based on my reading, it is a mistake at first, but when the government discovered the mistake, they just pressed on and tried to argue that actually he wasn't a citizen anyway.
> Even after ICE realized the error in identifying his parents, federal lawyers refused to free Watson. They seized on a new U.S. reading of Jamaican law to argue Watson should be deported because his father was not his legal guardian when they left the island nation.
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> An immigration judge ordered him deported. The Board of Immigration Appeals agreed.
>It was only when Watson’s appeal reached U.S. District Court and a court-appointed attorney pressed ICE that immigration authorities conducted the internal legal review they should have done when Watson first claimed to be a citizen. The review found the government had misinterpreted an arcane aspect of immigration law. ICE abruptly freed Watson.
Were his attorneys just incompetent before?