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Man Who Never Lived in Iraq Dies There After Trump Administration Deported Him

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He was among the many members of a persecuted Catholic minority the administration has targeted for removal

A Detroit resident deported to Iraq—a country he had never visited, with a language he did not speak—died this week because he was unable to obtain insulin for his diabetes.


The man, 41-year-old Jimmy Aldaoud, was deported in June and died Tuesday. A Greek-born Iraqi national, he said in an undated Facebook video prior to his death that he had lived in the United States since he was six months old and had never been to Iraq before. He was a Chaldean Catholic, a religious group that traces its roots to present-day Iraq, where its members face a high risk of persecution by ISIS, Politico reports.


“I’ve been throwing up, sleeping in the streets, trying to find something to eat,” Aldaoud says in the video. “I got nothing over here, as you can see.”


Chaldeans, motivated by President Donald Trump’s promise to eradicate ISIS and protect persecuted Christians, helped Trump win Michigan in 2016. (The Detroit area is home to the largest number of Chaldeans outside Iraq.)

But Trump struck a deal with Iraq in 2017 that took the country off the president’s travel ban list in exchange for allowing the United States to deport Iraqis back to the country.

Soon Chaldeans were being rounded up for deportation to a country some had never lived in—many Chaldeans were born in refugee camps—even though US law prohibits sending people to countries where they’re likely to be tortured or persecuted. Last year, some Chaldeans in detention reported being coerced by US immigration authorities into signing documents granting permission to deport them.

Man Who Never Lived in Iraq Dies There After Trump Administration Deported Him – Mother Jones
 
He put a target on his own back when he committed a home invasion.
 
Unfortunate. Just for the record though, I recall hearing something on NPR about the Obama era Alien Transfer Exit Program that was just about as bad. Illegal immigrants were being returned to places far from where they were picked up. Apparently some of them were more or less deported to areas of Mexico where their odds of survival were not great as a deterrence to them returning. Not saying this policy was decided on Pennsylvania Avenue mind you. Just that sometimes these things have unintended consequences (and sometimes perhaps not so unintended).
 
He had a criminal history including violent crimes.

If you’re not a citizen you need to behave yourself or you may indeed face deportation.
 

I don't know the whole story here and neither do you. It may be that in this one instance Aldaoud might have qualified as a dreamer, but the man had a very lengthy rapsheet--theft, burglary, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, etc. So this may be an inadvertent tragedy or it may not be quite as the we-hate-Trump-all-the-time media is playing it.

The ironic thing is that if the Democrats had not turned thumbs down on President Trump's very generous immigration reform offer in 2018, Aldaoud might have been given legal status.
 
"[FONT="]ICE officials, though, describe an “extensive criminal history” for Aldaoud, including convictions for assault with a dangerous weapon, assault and/or battery and domestic violence"

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A Detroit diabetic was deported to Iraq, where he’d never lived. He died from lack of insulin, family says.
A person here as a baby is here, period. He's one of us.

I don't think I care what he did--punish him accordingly and move on. He's our problem. Clearly deporting someone like that is a death sentence...as this case proves.
 
A person here as a baby is here, period. He's one of us.

I don't think I care what he did--punish him accordingly and move on. He's our problem. Clearly deporting someone like that is a death sentence...as this case proves.

So he was not born here... was not born to American citizens... was not a citizen... was a foreign national... and was a career criminal?

Not our problem... but he sounds like a very fine person...
 
Theres always something the idiot leftist media isnt very upfront about telling you and certainly isnt found in the headlines that are seized on.

"The basis for Aldaoud’s deportation was a history of legal issues, including disorderly conduct and home invasion, that friends say resulted from his schizophrenia."

"A Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism investigation published by the New Yorker in 2018 identified more than 60 such cases, including people deported under both the Trump and the Obama administrations."

Typical. The idiot leftists **** themselves...again...over Trump doing the same thing Obama did.
 
Theres always something the idiot leftist media isnt very upfront about telling you and certainly isnt found in the headlines that are seized on.

"The basis for Aldaoud’s deportation was a history of legal issues, including disorderly conduct and home invasion, that friends say resulted from his schizophrenia."

"A Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism investigation published by the New Yorker in 2018 identified more than 60 such cases, including people deported under both the Trump and the Obama administrations."

Typical. The idiot leftists **** themselves...again...over Trump doing the same thing Obama did.

He could have stayed here, served his time here, been treated for his mental issues here, and been released here.
He came here at six months old.
He stole a drill, he stole a car.
He didn't murder anyone, he didn't commit bank robbery, didn't join a gang and he didn't transport or deal drugs.
He was just a ****ed up guy who needed insulin and a chance to right some wrongs.

I read SIX news stories about the guy and ALL of them mentioned that he was troubled by a criminal record.
The "left" did not leave anything out because ALL of the news reports mentioned his history of petty crimes.

Even Mother Jones, who "soft pedaled" it a bit, still said:

The basis for Aldaoud’s deportation was a history of legal issues, including disorderly conduct and home invasion, that friends say resulted from his schizophrenia.

So even if you only read that one story, you still came away knowing that he had a record.
 
A person here as a baby is here, period. He's one of us.

I don't think I care what he did--punish him accordingly and move on. He's our problem. Clearly deporting someone like that is a death sentence...as this case proves.

Maybe in the last 41 years he should have applied for citizenship, or maybe been a good citizen and not committed crimes against American citizens. But you dont care about this guy. You just hate Trump
 
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