He fought corruption in Russia. ICE wants to deport him.
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.”
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“DHS has acted no better than the Russian authorities,” Duralev said. “They simply fabricated charges against me for violations I never committed — and if DHS can trump up charges against immigrants with impunity, nobody can guarantee they won’t start doing it” to regular Americans. “So that’s the main message I now hope to send.”
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