The Irish woman, who has lived in the USA for over 30 years, has been detained by immigration authorities for every week as a result of penalty charges from almost two decades from from almost two decades.
54-yr-old Cliona Ward, a 30-yr-old resident of Santa Cruz in California, was detained by immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) at the airport in San Francisco on April 21 on April 21 while getting back from a visit to Ireland to go to her sick father and transported to the institution in Tacoma, Wash. The guard reported.
Ward who got here from Dublin, Has a green card According to Irish Central, valid until 2033. Earlier it has allegations of drug possession from 2007 and 2008.
According to Gofundme Established by her sister, Orla Holladay, Warda’s almost 20-yr conviction was removed.
Holladay said that before arresting Ward provided all the essential documentation regarding the decades of belief, adding that the requirement was “in fact, the attempt to take her to arrest.”
“She did everything she had to do to make compensation for this conviction for criminal, and was employed, paying taxes and building family life in Santa Cruz,” she wrote Holladay, also telling Newsweek that her sister In the past he fought addictionBut he was sober for over 20 years.
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“I feel that I live in the Twilight Zone,” said Holladay NBC Bay Area. “He has a criminal past that Poisoned for. “
Ward also has Chronically sick son which relies on her for care, Holladay added Gofundme to the allegation of the party.
During the publication, money collection was only just a few hundred dollars in comparison with a goal of USD 30,000.
The source just like the investigation informed the NBC Bay Area that Clion remains to be under federal care, because its abolition It happened at the state levelNot federal.
The Irish Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, spoke against the apparent repression of Trump’s administration on foreigners about legal status in the USA, telling the national broadcaster of Ireland, rté: “Where people have green cards and civil rights, they should not be a matter, so we will be on the basis of bilateral.
Meanwhile, a representative of California Jimmy Panetta said NBC Bay Area in a statement: “It is unimaginable that an apparently removable, 20-yr incident may be used as a justification for the deporting of a legal resident who is a productive member of our community.
“But it’s cruel and unreasonable The state of the deportation policy of this administration.
“As a former gang prosecutor, I understand and appreciate the must remove hardened criminals from our communities, but the arrest of Clion Ward-Teraz in her 50. And the owner of the Green Card-during the decades of crime, which were reportedly faraway from her personal history, is unfathomable and unacceptable.
On the trail of the campaign Donald Trump promised “the largest deportation operation in America’s history”, but outraged the world and shocked the world of residents who have the status of birth, naturalization or are owners of green cards.
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