Iraq War Veteran in US for Nearly 30 Years Can Be Deported: Judge

essentialsaltes · May 28, 2025

An Arizona resident who has lived in the U.S. legally for decades―and even fought a war for the country―may be deported, after an immigration judge's ruling on Friday.

Iraq War veteran Marlon Parris, who moved to the U.S. from the Caribbean in 1997 and was repeatedly issued Green Cards, was detained in January earlier this year.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) had previously ruled the Green Card holder should be allowed to stay in the U.S. despite serving prison time for a drugs offense back in 2011 because the crime was nonviolent.

Judge Frank Travieso said he was sympathetic to Parris' case, but nevertheless found that the government had provided enough evidence to show that he could be deported. The ruling at Florence Immigration Court on May 9 means that Parris may now be forcibly ejected from the U.S., despite living in the country for decades since he was a boy and serving two tours of duty in Iraq.

Thank you for your service, but ICE needs to juice its deportation numbers.

Oompa Loompa · May 28, 2025

essentialsaltes said:
An Arizona resident who has lived in the U.S. legally for decades―and even fought a war for the country―may be deported, after an immigration judge's ruling on Friday.

Iraq War veteran Marlon Parris, who moved to the U.S. from the Caribbean in 1997 and was repeatedly issued Green Cards, was detained in January earlier this year.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) had previously ruled the Green Card holder should be allowed to stay in the U.S. despite serving prison time for a drugs offense back in 2011 because the crime was nonviolent.

Judge Frank Travieso said he was sympathetic to Parris' case, but nevertheless found that the government had provided enough evidence to show that he could be deported. The ruling at Florence Immigration Court on May 9 means that Parris may now be forcibly ejected from the U.S., despite living in the country for decades since he was a boy and serving two tours of duty in Iraq.

Thank you for your service, but ICE needs to juice its deportation numbers.

Is this the due process that liberals are talking about?

BCP1928 · May 28, 2025

Oompa Loompa said:
Is this the due process that liberals are talking about?

Yep. Deporting him is cruel and unnecessary, but at least it's out in the open. Would you rather have a couple of armed men in masks and hoodies disappear him off the street?

NxNW · May 28, 2025

At least he had due process in this case.

Belk · May 28, 2025

Oompa Loompa said:
Is this the due process that liberals are talking about?

Yes. Was that really so hard?

Aryeh Jay · May 28, 2025

The end result is the same so why waste the money? Deport them all! America for real Americans!

Oompa Loompa · May 28, 2025

BCP1928 said:
Yep. Deporting him is cruel and unnecessary, but at least it's out in the open. Would you rather have a couple of armed men in masks and hoodies disappear him off the street?

I have no clue as to what you are talking about.

Richard T · May 28, 2025

Aryeh Jay said:
The end result is the same so why waste the money? Deport them all! America for real Americans!

What is a "real" American? A U.S. soldier who served two tours to preserve freedom or those that evaded the draft?
Due process is not a waste of money. Sure you can save on deportations but you could also save if you got rid of the right to an attorney, the right to be free from search and seizure, and even the right to free speech and religion. I would add that sometimes "real Americans" have fought for these rights worldwide, by opposing those nations who fail to offer many of these protections and embracing those that do.

Here is President Reagan defining “the shining city upon a hill.”

“n my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.”

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On this day in 1989, President Ronald Reagan gives his Farewell Address to the Nation, in which he defined his vision of "the shining city upon a hill."

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MotoToTheMax · May 28, 2025

Oompa Loompa said:
Is this the due process that liberals are talking about?

Yes, now apply it to Kilmar Garcia. Congratulations, you're on our side and can do that to him after what was done to the individual in the OP. Do let us know when the administration listens to the court and does so. Thanks.

Oompa Loompa · May 28, 2025

MotoToTheMax said:
Yes, now apply it to Kilmar Garcia. Congratulations, you're on our side and can do that to him after what was done to the individual in the OP. Do let us know when the administration listens to the court and does so. Thanks.

I honestly couldn't care less about the wife beating gangster.

MotoToTheMax · May 28, 2025

Oompa Loompa said:
I honestly couldn't care less about the wife beating gangster.

Good for you. Do you care about due process? Because that's what matters there. Just like it mattered here. (HINT: Nobody in this thread has said the person in the OP was illegally deported, unlike the wife beating gangster.)

Oompa Loompa · May 29, 2025

MotoToTheMax said:
Good for you. Do you care about due process? Because that's what matters there. Just like it mattered here. (HINT: Nobody in this thread has said the person in the OP was illegally deported, unlike the wife beating gangster.)

The wife beating gangster did receive due process and was found to be deportable by an immigration judge.

Belk · May 29, 2025

Oompa Loompa said:
The wife beating gangster did receive due process and was found to be deportable by an immigration judge.

Since there was a judicial order that he not be deported to the country he was deported to, no he didn't.

DaisyDay · May 29, 2025

Oompa Loompa said:
The wife beating gangster did receive due process and was found to be deportable by an immigration judge.

Except that he was deported to the one place he had protection from, by order of a judge. Is it due process if the judge's orders are openly flouted?

Oompa Loompa · May 29, 2025

Belk said:
Since there was a judicial order that he not be deported to the country he was deported to, no he didn't.

It deporting him wasn't intentional. But it isn't up to Trump to decide if he returns to the United States.

wing2000 · May 29, 2025

Oompa Loompa said:
It deporting him wasn't intentional. But it isn't up to Trump to decide if he returns to the United States.

No one is buying that argument.
Trump himself admitted he could have Abrego Garcia returned.

The fact is, the POTUS is disobeying an order for the nation's highest court.

DaisyDay · May 29, 2025

Oompa Loompa said:
It deporting him wasn't intentional.

Not intentional? He was shackled, placed in detention, then bundled onto a deportation plane. The plane was ordered to not take off with him or to turn around and bring him back, yet it continued on. What part of that was unintentional?

Oompa Loompa said:
But it isn't up to Trump to decide if he returns to the United States.

It is up to Trump to facilitate his return. Trump is paying to have him held there. He admits that he has not asked for the return of the prisoner.

Bukele asked how he could "sneak" Garcia into the States when that was absurdly not the scenario.

CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN · May 29, 2025

Sad! This is a good way to use people. Let them fight for our country. Let them pay taxes and into social security . And throw them out of the United States. So, we don't have to give them, their earned Social security. Or earned benefits. That's very evil to me.

Belk · May 29, 2025

Oompa Loompa said:
It deporting him wasn't intentional.

It was a mistake. But his deportation was intentional.

Oompa Loompa said:
But it isn't up to Trump to decide if he returns to the United States.

Yes. We have all heard about how the single most powerful man in the world is completely unable to do anything at all which is why his team is expending zero effort.

Do you believe that Oompa? Do you believe Trump could not get him brought back if he really wanted to?

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