Monday, June 19, 2017

We Only Deport Bad Hombres

Carlos Humberto Cardona, 48, was one of about 41,300 people ICE agents took into custody during the first 100 days of the Trump administration.

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[Cardona] put his health on the line to help remove hazardous material from Ground Zero — and now immigration authorities want him removed from the country over a 30-year-old criminal case.

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Cardona didn't think twice about being part of the 9/11 clean-up effort, his wife [Liliana] said.

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“He inhaled fumes (at the World Trade Center site). His health ended up being affected. He has lung problems. He has gastrointestinal problems. He has psychological issues. He has a lot of anxiety,” she said.

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In 1990, Cardona pleaded guilty to an attempted drug sale count in New York.

“He was standing next to a friend when that happened. It wasn't his,” his wife said.

Cardona has had no convictions since.

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Last week, [Rajesh Barua, Cardona’s attorney] filed a legal action asking a Brooklyn federal judge to make the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services hurry and decide a basic 2014 application verifying his marriage to Liliana, who is a naturalized U.S. citizen.

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“He’s scared of going back to Colombia."

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Liliana said Cardona fled to the United States in 1986 at age 17. His two older brothers were police officers who'd been killed by anti-government rebels when Colombia was deep in a decades-long civil war.

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Cardona was taken into custody during a February check-in with immigration authorities and has been held at Hudson County Correctional Facility in New Jersey.

  New York Daily News
Forty-one thousand.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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