Irish Man in ICE Detention for Five Months Claims Agents Forged His Signature on Documents

"There's a lot to be infuriated by at the moment, when it comes to the subject of ICE detention, whether it's the tortuous, subhuman conditions of detention camps, or mysterious, immediate deaths of otherwise healthy individuals entering those camps or prisons. But somehow, it's the truly pointless detentions that might be the most purely rage-inducing. These are the detentions that we can assume only happened because ICE has an immutable quota it needs to fill as the Trump administration attempts"

"How else to explain why Seamus Culleton, a native of Ireland with a valid U.S. work permit and no criminal record, who is married to a U.S. citizen and was about to receive his green card, was seized by ICE from his home in Boston and has subsequently spent the last five months imprisoned in a notorious ICE detention facility in Texas?"

"The 42-year-old Seamus Culleton was born in County Kilkenny, Ireland, and originally traveled to the United States in 2009 on a visa waiver program. He ultimately overstayed (by many, many years) his 90-day limit, falling in love and marrying a U.S. citizen, Tiffany Smyth. Culleton applied for lawful permanent residence, obtained a statutory exemption that allowed him to work and went through the long and winding process of applications and interviews to be granted a green card, while running a plastering business in the Boston"

ICE detention practices include tortuous, subhuman conditions and unexplained immediate deaths of detainees. Some detentions appear pointless and performed to meet deportation quotas as the Trump administration sought to increase daily ICE detention numbers to 100,000. Seamus Culleton, a 42-year-old Irish national with a valid U.S. work permit and pending green card, was arrested by ICE while buying supplies in Boston and has been held in a Texas detention facility for five months. Culleton, married to a U.S. citizen, described the facility as "like a concentration camp, absolute hell," and has alleged that ICE forged his signature on deportation documents.

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