University of Maryland School of Pharmacy instructor Berhanu Kibret won a teacher of the year award this month right before federal immigration enforcement agents arrested him for allegedly overstaying his visa.
  • TIEPilot@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Oh we should keep this guy in the US, I love that we brain drain the rest of the world for our benefit. But you got to play by the rules.

    If its a clerical error great, he’ll be back among us in no time. If not, small legal kerfuffle and it gets straightened out.

    And what the University “claims” means fuck all to the Feds. My guess is the University was supposed to keep him here legally and dropped the ball and forgot to renew his visa.

    • Oofnik@kbin.melroy.org
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      3 days ago

      I don’t think you have the right attitude toward the human element of these cases even on a charitable read of your comment. Have you ever been wrongly imprisoned? Do you think being wrongly imprisoned, even if you are ultimately released, would have no psychological or social effect on you as a person? As someone who has lived as a white person in the US and as a minority elsewhere, I assure you, being treated with suspicion until proven otherwise is not anywhere close to as innocuous as you seem to think.

    • njm1314@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Never occurred to you that ICE, a criminal organization that commits murders on the street and has been shown to be incompetent and make mistakes constantly, could be the source of the fuck up? That never crossed your mind? You just have that much faith in them huh?