He fought corruption in Russia. ICE wants to deport him.

[Nevilledog]

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/03/gregory-duralev-ice-deportation-408607

A Russian national living in California with his American family is now facing deportation from the U.S. due to what experts say is a politically motivated request by Russia for his arrest — one of a number of cases in which U.S. immigration authorities have relied on such a request for prolonged detention and so-called backdoor extraditions.

The story of Gregory Duralev is a tale worthy of Franz Kafka. A former bodybuilder turned businessman, Duralev wrote a master’s thesis on a subject he had encountered firsthand: corruption in the Russian economy.

“I was a little naive, so I decided to send it directly to the presidential website as my own kind of civil initiative,” he said in an interview. “Soon thereafter, I was charged with fraud.”

He decided to flee Russia for a country where he assumed he would find protection: the United States. Duralev entered the U.S. on a tourist visa in November 2015 and applied for asylum two months later. He was awaiting a decision on his asylum application, which allows him to legally remain in the U.S. until a judgment is rendered, when he was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Los Angeles in September 2018 on the charge of overstaying his visa.

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[pandr32]

1. Uh-oh

Doesn't look good for him.

[blm]

2. Trump will gift wrap and give him to Putin.

[elleng]

3. 'I was a little naive,' I'll say!

[Mersky]

4. Well, heck, now I'd like to read his master's thesis

I’m not sure I have this straight, but seems he wrote a master’s thesis about his firsthand experiences of corruption in Russia and submitted it to the russian presidential website in 2010. Nothing happens until he travels to the US in 2015 at which time russia issues a janky “Red Notice” via Interpol accusing him of fraud and for which he applies for asylum in the US.

Then, in 2018 when appearing for a USCIS interview regarding his asylum, ICE acts upon the old questionable red notice and arrests him? This, to deport him for the basis of his asylum.

Did they comb through records looking for any shred of an excuse to deport people or was he targeted? How was any such tRump-era request made to remove him? How many other stories of people seeking asylum are being abused by tRump’s conflicts of interest via ICE?

[Karadeniz]

5. Another item they've discussed on their phone calls...sickening!