An Irish grandmother who has lived in the US for most of her life and holds a green card is facing deportation because she wrote a bad cheque for $25 in 2015.
Donna Hughes-Brown, 58, was detained in July after landing in Chicago on a flight from Dublin and is being held in isolation in a detention centre in Kentucky. She has lived in the US since 1977, has five children and grandchildren, and ran a horse farm in Troy, Missouri.
Her husband, Jim Brown, a US citizen and military veteran, told reporters his wife was not a criminal and that he “100%” regretted voting for Donald Trump as president.
Voting Republican is a vote against fundamental human rights.
They know, they just think voting Republican makes them exempt from persecution
Her husband, Jim Brown, a US citizen and military veteran, told reporters his wife was not a criminal and that he “100%” regretted voting for Donald Trump as president.
I hope she’s released soon and starts divorce proceedings.
Hey now. At least he is one of the people who regret voting for him, some of the others didn’t even do that.
I guarantee you he would still vote for him again if there were no other R alternative.
I’m sure he’ll still regret it and she can find a husband that actually gives a shit about her.
He said she had been detained on a misdemeanour relating to a $25 cheque she signed a decade ago and for which she made restitution and received probation.
I work retail and can’t stand it when people write checks, but even I think deportation is a little much.
Also, we’re deporting people now for bouncing a check? We might as well just empty Mississippi out into the Gulf of Mexico now.
Gulf of what?
/s it was a stupid name change.
I laughed.
Her husband, Jim Brown, a US citizen and military veteran, told reporters his wife was not a criminal and that he “100%” regretted voting for Donald Trump as president.
Fuck you, Jim Brown, you selfish, inhuman piece of shit. You were fine voting for fascism when you thought you’d benefit. Now that it affects you and you find out you’re just as worthless to them as everyone else suddenly you have regrets.
There was a reporter talking to him. Does it occur to the reporters to dig deeper into the regret? Maybe point out that he was fine with this until it affected people he cared about? Maybe ask him if it would perhaps make sense to treat everyone like they are human beings instead of only the people in your family?
“Do you regret this happening to other people at all, or just you?”
That day you should’ve realized you were voting for? This is it. You’re having it.
See they are not racist, they do it to white people as well! /s
Well, Irish people anyways
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If you decide not to become a citizen and stay a green card holder for decades because you wish to return to the motherland one day don’t be surprised when the government will help you fulfill those wishes. I don’t get why many migrants across the world don’t want to become a citizen of the country they’ve lived in for decades. Non-citizens are always the first victims the moment the country moves towards authoritarianism.
Taxes. If they want to move back after becoming a citizen they’ll have to pay usa income tax for 10 years even if they renounce usa citizenship, or forever if they don’t renounce.
I live in the Netherlands I know some migrants who have lived here most their lives and still haven’t naturalized. The tax thing doesn’t apply here we don’t have citizenship based taxes
Money. It costs money. Why spend on something you don’t need?
Some countries make it really hard to give up citizenship. It took my husband 15 years, 3 lawyers and a lot of money. He started the process as soon as he turned 18 because he wanted citizenship of the country he lives in, but his country of birth did everything to slow down the process. Some countries also don’t have a working beaurocracy.
Don’t think that’s the case for Ireland, but I know several stories like that.
Honestly surprised since she’s white and all
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Bye bye crimer! That’s what you get for criming!
She’s white, they’ll reverse it
