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> The man concedes he came to the U.S. illegally. Not according to the article? > "And I did, I complied with everything they said. They asked me if I had a G
by pavel_lishin 9mo ago
> The man concedes he came to the U.S. illegally.
Not according to the article?
> "And I did, I complied with everything they said. They asked me if I had a Green Card, I said I didn't, I said I was married to a citizen and that I had a marriage-based petition in place and I was just about to receive my Green Card and that I had a work permit to be here and work."
> He said he had received the work permit about "a month or so earlier", so as far as he knew he was covered.
- 0xy 9mo agoYou are completely incorrect. An Employment Authorization Document, which he is referring to, does not imply or confer ANY immigration status.
- nextaccountic 9mo agohttps://universityfinance.richmond.edu/payroll/international/employment/authorization.html https://universityfinance.richmond.edu/payroll/international... An EAD gives a person legal status to work in the United States but has fewer privileges than a green card.
- 0xy 9mo agoAgain, completely false. An EAD does not issue ANY immigration status, period. He had no legal status prior to marriage and still has no legal status because he has no green card and has racked up 20 years of overstay. EADs are not issued to people with immigration status (eg. citizens or permanent residents). It is ONLY issued to those with no status.
- reverius42 9mo agoIf "immigration" and "work authorization" are two completely different things, are you claiming that everyone in the US on a work visa is an "illegal immigrant"? Surely "having work authorization" counts as some kind of legal status or we wouldn't have people on work visas at all.
- 0xy 9mo agoI made no such claim. I explicitly said that an EAD implies no legal status in itself. A pending Adjustment of Status does not provide legal status, either. If you already had a massive overstay, and your Adjustment of Status was likely to be denied due to ineligibility, and you have an order of removal, you're going home, of course. And as we now know, the Irish man in question: - Entered under VWP, which EXPLICITLY bars any form of status adjustment - Filed a Habeas Corpus petition, which was denied by a judge - Has a final order of removal, signed by a judge, not an administrator In fact, you need to just take a look at the back of an EAD card. It explicitly states it is not evidence of status. This guy is a weird hill for you to die on. He overstayed TWENTY YEARS and immigration courts, which are known to be far more lenient, have denied his ridiculous arguments to stay.
- reverius42 9mo agoI'm not dying on any hill! Sorry, I just misunderstood your point the first time. Thank you for clarifying.
- 0xy 9mo agoThe same Irish man left Ireland because he was facing drug charges. I guess now we know why he overstayed 20 years, he fled Irish police.
- SpicyLemonZest 9mo agoFrom what I can tell you're right, but this seems like it's 100% the fault of the United States and 0% his. Why would you issue a document certifying authorization to work in the United States that does not imply authorization to be in the United States?
- rayiner 9mo agoIt's in the legal filings: https://www.universalhub.com/files/attachments/2026/culleton-ruling.pdf https://www.universalhub.com/files/attachments/2026/culleton... "Culleton concedes he is removable under the VWP. Reply 10." He came to the U.S. under the Visa Waiver Program, which is limited to 90 days, back in 2009.
- drecked 9mo agoAnd yet neither has he been removed nor has he been granted access to a trial. I also like these parts: > Culleton testified that he did not sign the Notice nor did he write “I’m married to a citizen and have a work permit” on it. > Secore testified that he remembered serving the Notice on Culleton, but not watching Culleton sign it. > Secore also testified that the paperwork was riddled with mistaken dates because of the way ICE’s computer system operates. > Secore testified that he should have caught those errors when processing the paperwork, but that he “missed” them.
- rayiner 9mo ago> And yet neither has he been removed nor has he been granted access to a trial. What do you think that proves?
- ozozozd 9mo agoIt proves that my tax dollars are wasted on whoever is running this sloppy process and the crappy private prison. It’s one thing to not be bothered by constitutional violations, it’s a whole another thing to be ok with squandering our tax dollars.
- cherry_tree 9mo agoWhich is to say, he came here legally with a 90 day visa. Not illegally as you stated previously.