Police knew a war veteran was a U.S. citizen. ICE detained him anyway.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Five years after his combat service in Afghanistan, Jilmar Ramos-Gomez sat in an immigrant detention center in Michigan, contemplating how a U.S. citizen and war veteran could get sucked into a Kafkaesque deportation void.

It started with an off-duty police captain watching the evening news featuring Ramos-Gomez’s arrest, speculating if the veteran, Michigan born and bred, was in the country illegally.

Those suspicions triggered a decision by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain him for three days, despite immediate evidence that proved Ramos-Gomez was a citizen, including police reviewing his passport the day of his arrest.

Nearly a year later, the Grand Rapids city commission on Tuesday unanimously agreed to award Ramos-Gomez $190,000 in a settlement over the wrongful detainment, his family’s attorney Richard Kessler told The Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/11/14/police-knew-war-veteran-was-us-citizen-ice-detained-him-anyway/?wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

[TheRealNorth]

1. Its a shame that the City of Grand Rapids has to pay up for ICE's

Crimes. Although it sounds like it dipshit (likely racist) local police officer started it.

[stopdiggin]

2. this was racism plain and simple

a white person (with documents ON them) does not end up in ICE custody. Period.
(the fact that, once there, ICE cannot find it's ass with both hands for several days .. is another subject)