Current Events > ICE tried to deport witness to forced hysterectomies, who is a citizen

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https://theintercept.com/2020/11/02/ice-medical-misconduct-us-citizen-deportation/

ALMA BOWMAN, a 54-year-old woman in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, was scheduled for deportation on Monday. For over two years, Bowman has been held at Georgias Irwin County Detention Center, the site of growing concern about medical neglect and coerced gynecological procedures performed on nearly 60 women. She has been a key witness, for attorneys and journalists, of a doctor performing the allegedly unnecessary or overly aggressive procedures.

She is also a U.S. citizen, according to her lawyer and documentation reviewed by The Intercept.

Im just scared, Bowman told The Intercept about her potential deportation. I always had this fear that Ill lose touch with my family.

Though she was ordered removed from the country on June 4, ICE only took action to begin her deportation in the last few weeks after the public became aware of allegations of medical misconduct at Irwin. Following the initiation of deportation proceedings against her, a lawyer finally began reviewing documents for Bowmans immigration case and realized that she had documentation indicating her U.S. citizenship.

On Monday morning, ICE denied a stay of removal for Bowman, potentially setting up her deportation. On Monday afternoon, Bowmans deportation was halted, for now, and she was to be returned from Arizona, where she was being prepared for her departure, to a detention center in Georgia, her advocates told The Intercept.

I am gratified that the deportation of Alma Bowman has been stayed for now. A 43-year resident of this country with compelling evidence that she is a United States citizen, Ms. Bowman is a material witness in ongoing Congressional and DHS investigations into human rights violations at the ICE Irwin County Detention Center, Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., told The Intercept in a statement, referring to the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General investigation into Irwin. To deport her before she has been interviewed would have been a gross obstruction of justice.

Born in 1966 in the Philippines, to a U.S. citizen father who was serving in the Navy and a Filipina mother, Bowman moved to the U.S. with her parents as an adolescent. I always thought that I was a citizen of the United States, Bowman said. She has two U.S. citizen children and is married to a U.S. citizen, whom she is separated from.

Bowman said she told both an ICE officer and more than one immigration judge four separate judges have presided over her case in the past three years about her citizenship. The immigration officials seemed indifferent. They were not paying attention, Bowman said, when asked how the officials reacted to her claims of citizenship. They didnt believe me, and I got it in my head that maybe I wasnt. One ICE officer, she told The Intercept, questioned whether the man who raised her as his daughter was actually her biological father. Her birth certificate, which The Intercept was able to review, names her father, a U.S. citizen. Her maternal grandfather was also a U.S. citizen.

Without an attorney, Bowman represented herself in immigration court until this week. In the course of her complex legal and immigration cases, she asked for asylum and, after it was denied, languished in immigration detention. After nearly half a year in Atlanta City Detention Center, she was transferred to Irwin and held there from January 2018 until last week more than 30 months when she was transferred to Arizona in preparation for her deportation. After attorneys with the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, or GLAHR, began representing her last week, they discovered that Bowman is, in fact, a U.S. citizen. The Intercept was able to review her records, including birth certificates, marriage contracts, and immigration forms related to her citizenship.

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wtf

hope she sues their asses off

America, ladies and gentlemen.

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Fuck ICE

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It was only a matter of time before they tried to deport literal citizens for opposing them.

VonOrdelia posted...

Fuck ICE

Republicans love these terrorists.

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ICE is gonna be remembered in the same way as the SS.

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Hope 46 dismantles this fascist organization and voids the pension of anyone who worked there.

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friendbuddypal posted...

Hope 46 dismantles this fascist organization and voids the pension of anyone who worked there.

I do not see this happening!
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VonOrdelia posted...

Fuck ICE

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I saw a Netflix Doc about this, They are just normal people doing their Job

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VonOrdelia posted...

Fuck ICE

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Joeydollaz posted...

I saw a Netflix Doc about this, They are just normal people doing their Job

normal people who ignored a citizen's evidence of citizenship and refused to look into it for months and kept her locked up for a crime she literally couldn't commit (citizens can't illegally immigrate into the US because they are already allowed to come in)

Abolish ICE.

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