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USC Awarded $400k For Wrongful Detention

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Myopia Rising Star

Myopia   93

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Amazing.

Wrongful Detention

03/09/2011 AOS Application Sent.
03/11/2011 (Day 0) Application Received
03/16/2011 (Day 7) NOA 1 (Text Email)+ (Checks Cashed)
03/19/2011 (Day 10) Hard Copy of NOA 1
03/28/2011 (Day 19) Biometrics letter 4/8/2011
04/08/2011 (Day 30) Successful Biometrics for I-765/I-485
05/13/2011 (Day 65) EAD received in the mail
05/14/2011 (Day 66) Email confirming EAD approved (Case updated online TOUCH)
05/20/2011 (Day 72) SSN In the Mail.

09/08/2011 (Day 200 ) Email notification of Interview.
10/11/2011 Interview at 26 Federal Plaza, NY!
Interviewed and Am expecting RFEs!
10/13/2011 (Day ***) Received RFE-- Requesting that I provide documentation to prove I was never married in Uk or Illin
02/11/2012 (Day ***) Service request..Told its being reviewed by supervisor

24th March 2012!!!!!!!!!!! Email notifiying me of CARD IN PRODUCTION
03/26/2012 (Day 376) Emails confirming that my I-130 and I-485 have been approved.

4/2/2012 Green Card In Hand!

Unbelievable that my journey took this long but Im thankful

Next Stop Premed...Yup!

3/24/2014 Application for conditions to be removed

9/22/2014 APPROVED without interview.

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I've heard of several similar cases now - including one very disturbing one where a mentally deficient adult US citizen, born in the US to legal immigrant parents, was hospitalized and because he appeared not to be able to respond to the hospital staff, they contacted ICE who then detained him as an illegal immigrant. When his family found out what had happened, they provided immigration with his US birth certificate. ICE stated the birth certificate was a forgery (it wasn't), and they deported him to Mexico - actually abandoned him in the middle of a Mexican city where he knew no one, had nothing and didn't even speak Spanish. It took the family a number of months in court to get the situation overturned so they could bring him back home to the country where he was not only a citizen, but was a citizen by birth. ICE never acknowledged that they made a mistake. The hospital, however, did but said they were just following a policy to prevent illegal immigrants putting a drain on hospital budgets by turning them over to ICE rather than treat them further.

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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Horrible mistake. Good that I have a US Passport Card. But tell you what, for $400,000.00 they can lock me up for a few months.

The compensation should have been what the guy would have earned when working at this job as a convicted felon, plus a few thousand dollars for punitive damages. $400,000.00 of taxpayers' money is certainly too much. Thinking about it, 25% of that would have been too much. America, the land of excesses, indeed.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

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Horrible mistake. Good that I have a US Passport Card. But tell you what, for $400,000.00 they can lock me up for a few months.

The compensation should have been what the guy would have earned when working at this job as a convicted felon, plus a few thousand dollars for punitive damages. $400,000.00 of taxpayers' money is certainly too much. Thinking about it, 25% of that would have been too much. America, the land of excesses, indeed.

I guess I value constitutional rights a bit more then you I suppose.

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nane1104   146

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While I think this was a terrible ordeal for this guy, I must say, the amount he got seems excessive though- in comparison to what other USC get after being inprisoned for years sometimes for being wrongfully convicted of a crime.

A very worrisome screw-up by the USCIS though....:blink:

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