“You don’t arrest 58-year-old grandmothers,” her husband said. But she passed a bad $25 check ten years ago, so adios! er... Slán leat!

[iluvatar5150]

I almost added that in there, but decided it was too much of a stretch lol

If you can count on me for anything, it's to torture facts in service of a mediocre joke.

 

[Pommer]

Irish and Italian both begin with "I", the same as illegal.

Dead giveaway

 

[Desk trauma]

Irish and Italian both begin with "I”…

Which comes before E except after C and something about T which rhymes with P which stands for pool!

 

[RileyG]

Isn't this what Trump supporters wanted?

Doubtful.

 

[RileyG]

What a crock. This person is not a criminal and is here legally. So much for deporting only hardened, illegal immigrant criminals.

I agree. How awful!

 

[Zaha Torte]

Local grandmother held by ICE over $25 bad check from 10 years ago​

Jim, a veteran, and Donna, a full-time health care worker, married about eight years ago. A simple life of faith, family and friends. Jim says she’s the first to help others in times of trouble.

Donna, an Irish citizen, came to the U.S. when she was just 11 years old. She is a legal resident alien, or green card carrier, but not a U.S. citizen.

All was well, Jim says, until July. While in Ireland for a family funeral, on the way back at customs in Chicago, Donna was arrested.

“You don’t arrest 58-year-old grandmothers. It’s just wrong. She hasn’t committed crimes. You just don’t do that,” he said.

[To be fair, she did commit a crime.]

Ten years ago, Donna wrote a bad check, charging documents say, for $25. She was a single mom.

She paid it back and got probation. But Jim says the U.S. government is suddenly arguing that was a crime of moral turpitude.

[She was moved from Missouri to a county jail in Kentucky, where she's cooled her heels the past 30 days.]

Why isn't she a US Citizen yet?

 

[7thKeeper]

Send her to El Salvador!

Off with her head!

 

[essentialsaltes]

Jim Brown – Donna’s husband of eight years, with whom she lives on a nine-acre farm in Troy, Missouri, and with whom she organizes charitable “blessing boxes” for struggling members of the local community – told Fox News’s Nevada affiliate KMOV of his anguish at his wife’s plight.

Brown, a U.S. Navy veteran of 20 years’ service, has admitted to Newsweek that he voted for Donald Trump in last year’s presidential election but has quickly come to regret it “100 percent”.

“I think [the immigration push is] a blanket thing to catch everybody, to fill beds… They signed a stupid bill that is torturing innocent people, and that’s the problem.”

The Department of Homeland Security has previously said in a statement: “Lawful Permanent Residents presenting at a U.S. port of entry with certain criminal convictions may be found inadmissible, placed in removal proceedings, and subject to mandatory detention."

 

[essentialsaltes]

Why isn't she a US Citizen yet?

Per the OP article:

“It takes about 10, 15 years, and it’s very expensive,” Brown said.

 

[Zaha Torte]

Per the OP article:

“It takes about 10, 15 years, and it’s very expensive,” Brown said.

She became an LPR when she was 11 - right?

 

[essentialsaltes]

I'll see your 58-year old grandmother who passed a bad check and raise you a 73-year old grandmother with no criminal record.

Sikh granny deported after 'unacceptable' treatment by US immigration​

Harjit Kaur, who had unsuccessfully applied for asylum in the US, was arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials on 8 September, sparking shock among the Sikh community. [She was arrested as she complied with her six month check in with authorities]

She moved to California in 1991 with her two young sons to escape political turmoil in Punjab, and lived and worked there while making several unsuccessful asylum attempts in the US.

[Her lawyer] Mr Ahluwalia described Ms Kaur's treatment in an Instagram video as "unacceptable", saying she spent 60-70 hours in detention without a bed, forced to sleep on the floor despite double knee replacements.

Ms Kaur, who lived in Hercules in the San Francisco Bay Area, worked for two decades as a sari-store seamstress and paid her taxes. Asylum applicants are allowed to live and work legally while their claims are in process.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

a 73-year old grandmother with no criminal record.

She's got one now!

Keeping us safe, one grandmother at a time.

 

[CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN]

Doubtful.

They they weren't paying attention, when Trump was in the White House. The time he was the president.

 

[RileyG]

They they weren't paying attention, when Trump was in the White House. The time he was the president.

Not all. Not all of them can be painted with a broad brush.

 

[7thKeeper]

She's got one now!

Keeping us safe, one grandmother at a time.

Who knows what's in those cookies she baked....

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Who knows what's in those cookies she baked....

In California? Who knows? Real sugar? Gluten? Peanuts? She could very well be responsible for hundreds of deaths.

 

[Tuur]

For some reason, just happened to think of a local grandmother who was arrested for making moonshine on her stove.

 

[Larniavc]

Local grandmother held by ICE over $25 bad check from 10 years ago​

Jim, a veteran, and Donna, a full-time health care worker, married about eight years ago. A simple life of faith, family and friends. Jim says she’s the first to help others in times of trouble.

Donna, an Irish citizen, came to the U.S. when she was just 11 years old. She is a legal resident alien, or green card carrier, but not a U.S. citizen.

All was well, Jim says, until July. While in Ireland for a family funeral, on the way back at customs in Chicago, Donna was arrested.

“You don’t arrest 58-year-old grandmothers. It’s just wrong. She hasn’t committed crimes. You just don’t do that,” he said.

[To be fair, she did commit a crime.]

Ten years ago, Donna wrote a bad check, charging documents say, for $25. She was a single mom.

She paid it back and got probation. But Jim says the U.S. government is suddenly arguing that was a crime of moral turpitude.

[She was moved from Missouri to a county jail in Kentucky, where she's cooled her heels the past 30 days.]

Cruelty is a feature not a bug in America.

 

[Larniavc]

Passing bad checks is illegal and a gateway crime to human trafficking and murder.

Is this a Christian or personal opinion?

 

[Larniavc]

You can't trust any Irish IMO.

Gosh darn bog trotters to a man!