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

[Lady Freedom Returns]

By Alex Horton
November 14, 2019 at 4:25 PM EST

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.

Read more at https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/11/14/police-knew-war-veteran-was-us-citizen-ice-detained-him-anyway/

[3Hotdogs]

1. Well, ya can't be too careful these day, don'tcha know?

[Mc Mike]

2. Repugs are traitors, attacking US war vets.