Sunday, February 4, 2018

ICE arrests Professor WHY? NOT?

Professor DEPORTED.

There are 8,000 DACA who are school teachers. Please do not arrest them in front of their students and put them into  buses and trains and cargo planes while they wait in line with 700,000 more DACA people hungry and thirsty, bladders full, and dirty waiting to get on trains, buses and cargo planes to be shipped out of the country according to country of origin.

How long do you figure it would take to deport 700,000 people? Do we round them up in the same week and take them to a central depot? Or...do we encourage voluntary deportations?

What are the logistics of that?

STOP this Madness before we repeat the crimes of WW2 here in America.

It is happening.

"They came for my neighbor I did nothing. They came for my friend I did nothing. And when they came for me there was no one left to help."

On a recent Wednesday morning, Syed Ahmed Jamal was getting ready to take his daughter to school when he was stopped outside his home in Lawrence, Kansas.

Officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement were on his front lawn. Before Jamal, 55, could say goodbye to his wife and three children, the ICE agents detained him and led him away in handcuffs.

The arrest of a "beloved Lawrence family man, scientist and community leader" came as a shock to Jamal's friends and neighbors in the Kansas City area, where he has lived since arriving in the United States on a student visa from Bangladesh more than 30 years ago. He would go on to also attain graduate degrees in molecular biosciences and pharmaceutical engineering, then settle in Lawrence to raise a family.

Along the way, he switched from student visas to an H-1B visa for highly skilled workers, then back to a student visa when he enrolled in a doctoral program, his family said. At the time of his arrest, Jamal was on a temporary work permit, teaching chemistry as an adjunct professor at Park University in Kansas City and conducting research at various local hospitals.

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