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Trump's War on the Vulnerable Has Now Reached Military Families (1 Viewer)

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Trump's War on the Vulnerable Has Now Reached Military Families​


The family residential section of U.S. Naval Air Station Key West, Florida, is usually a very pleasant place, with military families from the Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine Corps enjoying the sunny respite of a golden duty station like Key West.

At least it was until the Department of Homeland Security and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, under the direction of Donald Trump's lackeys, abandoned their vital mission of keeping military families safe and instead became a Gestapo-like force imprisoning them.

The orange anus is now having the spouses of active-duty service members arrested.

It's time for his removal from office.

 
I wonder if the military members that voted for him will finally get it.
 
A few arrests by Dear Leader's MAGA Gazpacho is a small price to pay for him saving us from transgender athletes!

COVFEFE
 
Just when you thought the Trump administration couldn't sink any lower, it just moved to deport the wife of an active-duty Coast Guardsmen.


The military spouse's crime? An expired work visa. It is unclear if any children had to witness this act of terror in the very place they should be safest, a military family community.


DHS oversees both Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Coast Guard. Using their knowledge and inside information, DHS officials have turned their power against one of their own, arresting an active duty Coast Guard wife who was attempting to find on-base housing at Naval Air Station Key West.


There has been debate on whether the arrested military spouse was home alone, with her husband being deployed or on temporary duty somewhere, as the Associated Press reported that the Coast Guardsman's ship, the USCGC Mohawk (WMEC-913), has been in port at Key West since mid-March.
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There is no bottom. There is no act so scummy that this administration will not stoop to it.

You're deployed. You find out your wife got deported AND there's nobody left to look after your household. I hope they didn't have pets.
 
Hmm…

The military spouse's crime? An expired work visa. It is unclear if any children had to witness this act of terror in the very place they should be safest, a military family community.
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This (click bait?) article cites one arrest for someone overstaying their ‘temporary’ work visa.
 
ColdHardTruth said:
She is the spouse of an active-duty military member.
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Does that make her “above the law”?

ColdHardTruth said:
DO NOT attempt to make excuses for what happened here.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The wife of an active-duty Coast Guardsman was arrested earlier this week by federal immigration authorities inside the family residential section of the U.S. Naval Air Station at Key West, Florida, after she was flagged in a routine security check, officials said Saturday.

“The spouse is not a member of the Coast Guard and was detained by Homeland Security Investigations pursuant to a lawful removal order,” said Coast Guard spokesperson Lt. Cmdr. Steve Roth in a statement confirming Thursday’s on-base arrest. “The Coast Guard works closely with HSI and others to enforce federal laws, including on immigration.”

According to a U.S. official, the woman’s work visa expired around 2017, and she was marked for removal from the United States a few years later. She and the Coast Guardsman were married early this year, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an enforcement incident.
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apnews.com

Wife of US Coast Guard member arrested over expired visa after security check for military housing

U.S. officials say the wife of an active-duty Coast Guardsman was arrested earlier this week by federal immigration authorities.
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Morale with the Coasties must now be at an all time high.

"Men, we will turn your spouses in."
 
Hamish Howl said:
I've seen a similar situation in the army.

The servicemember was told to get his spouse's shit straightened out. She wasn't deported.

What the **** is wrong with the far right?
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There's nothing more dangerous in a piss-off-all-decent-people way than a small-minded gamma personality who is given a taste of authority.
 
Grand Mal said:
There's nothing more dangerous in a piss-off-all-decent-people way than a small-minded gamma personality who is given a taste of authority.
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But this bit is PRECIOUS.

“The Coast Guard works closely with HSI and others to enforce federal laws, including on immigration.”
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Dude's own chain of command sold his family out.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Hmm…



This (click bait?) article cites one arrest for someone overstaying their ‘temporary’ work visa.
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Did you read far enough?

I think this sums it up nicely, regardless whether the soldier lashed out.
If a Purple Heart doesn't protect you, nothing will. If active-duty military personnel and their families, with guns and guards, aren't safe from Trump and his minions, how safe are you? Americans must take heed of this.
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More about the soldier
www.rollingstone.com

Trump Is Trying to Deport a Purple Heart Veteran. You Could Be Next

The Trump administration wants to kick Jose Barco, a decorated Iraq War veteran with a criminal conviction, out of the country.
www.rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com
 
Sounds like she tried to use marriage to a service member to avoid deportation.

“According to a U.S. official, the woman’s work visa expired around 2017, and she was marked for removal from the United States a few years later. She and the Coast Guardsman were married early this year, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an enforcement incident.”

Visa expired in 2017
Deportation order ~2020
Married USCG member 2025
 
Lovebug said:
Did you read far enough?

I think this sums it up nicely, regardless whether the soldier lashed out.

More about the soldier
www.rollingstone.com

Trump Is Trying to Deport a Purple Heart Veteran. You Could Be Next

The Trump administration wants to kick Jose Barco, a decorated Iraq War veteran with a criminal conviction, out of the country.
www.rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com
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Jose Barco was a legal immigrant who served in the U.S. military. He applied for citizenship. He committed a driveby shooting.

“A jury on Oct. 5 found Barco guilty of two counts of attempted first-degree murder and one count of felony menacing in the April 25, 2008, shooting in the 3000 block of Meander Circle.”

gazette.com

Ex-soldier who wounded pregnant woman sentenced to 52 years

A judge Monday sentenced a former Fort Carson soldier to 52 years in prison, saying he had dishonored his uniform by wounding a pregnant woman in a drive-by shooting. “This
gazette.com gazette.com

There is no requirement to give citizenship to criminals or to allow them to stay in the country.
 
JMB1911A1 said:
Jose Barco was a legal immigrant who served in the U.S. military. He applied for citizenship. He committed a driveby shooting.

“A jury on Oct. 5 found Barco guilty of two counts of attempted first-degree murder and one count of felony menacing in the April 25, 2008, shooting in the 3000 block of Meander Circle.”

gazette.com

Ex-soldier who wounded pregnant woman sentenced to 52 years

A judge Monday sentenced a former Fort Carson soldier to 52 years in prison, saying he had dishonored his uniform by wounding a pregnant woman in a drive-by shooting. “This
gazette.com gazette.com

There is no requirement to give citizenship to criminals or to allow them to stay in the country.
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He's not getting deported for 52 years.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Hmm…



This (click bait?) article cites one arrest for someone overstaying their ‘temporary’ work visa.
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Is there ever a time when you don't defend something ugly by way of evading the point or whattabouting? She's not some violent criminal. Neither were a good number of the deportees he lied about being in gangs. There is absolutely no reason to go straight for deportation.

Not only is it malicious cruelty engaged in solely for the point of scaring brown people, but we're wasting limited resources on deporting people contributing to society, thus leaving less resources for dealing with actual violent criminals.



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Part of the worst thing about these "law for the sake of law" types is that they use it to defend situations in which the law is being selectively applied against some vulnerable group. It'd be ugly enough if they really did think every law needs to be zero-tolerance without any exercise of discretion in enforcement (contrary to how things work). But they're not.

For them, it's just an ugly trollish way of saying "lol I don't care, it won't happen to me or my own so whateeeevs". It's the selfishness and cruelty at the heart of everything right wing . . .
 
ColdHardTruth said:

Trump's War on the Vulnerable Has Now Reached Military Families​


The family residential section of U.S. Naval Air Station Key West, Florida, is usually a very pleasant place, with military families from the Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine Corps enjoying the sunny respite of a golden duty station like Key West.

At least it was until the Department of Homeland Security and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, under the direction of Donald Trump's lackeys, abandoned their vital mission of keeping military families safe and instead became a Gestapo-like force imprisoning them.

The orange anus is now having the spouses of active-duty service members arrested.

It's time for his removal from office.

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What was actually done? You never said.
 
ColdHardTruth said:
He's not getting deported for 52 years.
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Read this article. He did 15 years of a 52 year sentence in prison and was paroled. He was then picked up by ICE. He was offered an opportunity by the immigration judge to appeal but refused.


“Barco was ordered to be deported to Venezuela by Assistant Chief Immigration Judge Mathew Kaufman in February at Aurora, Colo. Barco said he was not interested in appealing, even though the judge asked, "Are you sure?" Barco later told his brother he was "disillusioned and tired. Send me to a country that will accept me, since my country doesn't," according to the Gazette.”
 
JMB1911A1 said:
Read this article. He did 15 years of a 52 year sentence in prison and was paroled. He was then picked up by ICE. He was offered an opportunity by the immigration judge to appeal but refused.


“Barco was ordered to be deported to Venezuela by Assistant Chief Immigration Judge Mathew Kaufman in February at Aurora, Colo. Barco said he was not interested in appealing, even though the judge asked, "Are you sure?" Barco later told his brother he was "disillusioned and tired. Send me to a country that will accept me, since my country doesn't," according to the Gazette.”
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He volunteered to return to another country. That's on him.
 
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