Emotional goodbye at Michigan airport as woman deported after 30 years in U.S.

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By Dana Afana [e-mail]

After 30 years in the U.S., where she raised three children, worked and paid taxes in Sterling Heights, Zahrija Purovic, 50, was put on a plane and sent to Montenegro on Thursday.

Despite no criminal record and a pending motion for a stay of removal in federal appeals court, immigration authorities ordered her to pack her belongings, purchase a plane ticket and appear at Detroit Metro Airport.

Upon arriving with family members and friends around 4 p.m. Thursday, two ICE agents told Purovic that she had not been granted a stay, and escorted her to her flight.

During an emotional goodbye, a friend of 16 years collapsed to the floor while hugging Purovic. After regaining consciousness, the woman asked the ICE agents if they could say one last goodbye.

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[FiveGoodMen]

1. !!!!!!!!!!!

[llmart]

2. The Statue of Liberty weeps...

for what is happening to this country.

[Iggo]

3. This gives republicans a boner.

I'm not kidding.

[Mosby]

4. they should at least give her the money back

She paid into SS and medicare, but will never receive benefits.

[pangaia]

5. Fuck the fucking moron and all republicans

[NCjack]

6. This helps no one, except the storm troopers who hunted her. nt

[Ilsa]

7. Good god.

No criminal record, family in US, pays taxes, not on public support, and they threw her out. How did her name even pop up?

[maxsolomon]

8. But she's WHITE

Don't they know we aren't scared of Whypeepo?

[lpbk2713]

9. Trump is a poor excuse for a human being.

Piss on anyone who was stupid enough to vote for him.

[Duncan Grant]

10. This is an abuse of human rights. Its criminal.

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I’m not an attorney but this seems to be an extremely malevolent application of the law. What can possibly be gained by the destruction of this woman’s life? It’s antithetical to everything I believe about America and basic human rights. A tragedy!

[elias7]

12. !!!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

11. "Yeah, I dunno anything about this case, he doesn't know anything about this case..."

Fuck this system. Burn it down.

[bobbieinok]

13. Germans living under Hitler are deemed complicit in his actions

As Americans, each one of us is complicit in the actions of our govt.

We can not hold Germans in Nazi era to a different, higher standard.

I'm condemning myself in this.

As far as I can tell, the only way to escape being complicit is to physically protest. Or constantly protest each damaging action with letters, united action,...OR...