Ahsan Ullah, 32, an electrician from Brooklyn, was placed in immigration detention in Kearny, New Jersey, on 22 October. He spent about four weeks separated from his American wife and three children before being released on bond last Tuesday pending the outcome of his case. Four of his relatives, who all hold green cards, are also fighting government efforts to strip them of their US residency status. Since Trump came into office, the number of such denaturalization and citizenship revocation cases filed by DHS has surged.
“Citizenship is permanently conditional for many people who were not born here,” said Fahd Ahmed, executive director of the advocacy group Desis Rising Up and Moving (Drum), which has been providing support to the Ullah family.
“At a time when we are seeing a white nationalist current in government and society that wants to depopulate communities of color from this country, these cases are an indication of how their tactics and attacks are evolving.”
Trump has shattered the myth that the western world has perfected its democracy to the point that it is immune from dictatorship. All Humans have a gang mentality, and all it requires is for a leader to emerge that whips up emotions which a large swathe of the population identifies with. Democratic principles get lost in the euphoria of us versus them
Going into the future, one can safely state that literally all immigrants into the western world can stay put and thrive in their homelands if they upped their government systems and diligently managed their resources. Why is it that people move from the warmest and most habitable places in the world to cold Europe and North America? How come there is no mass movement of people in the reverse direction?
In Kenya for some of us that lost relatives in the 1998 US Embassy bombing and Garissa attacks, would totally vet all Somalis in Kenya. With a fine tooth and comb. Those that don’t pass the muster would be deported immediately.
Don’t come within our territorial border and want to do harm to the citizens and expect to be treated with kid gloves. Wapeleke hio upuss huko kwa desert.
Kenya needs to embrace this too and enforce it to the letter.
Administrator nakuunga mkono kwanza kale kashetani kamwanamke sijui in Mpchieth wa wapi should be deported to afamadow.
Ghasia yeye she is walking grenade