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Trebuchet

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Trebuchet
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I'm no fan of the RC church, but I'm even less so of the racist Trump administration.
The priest at the local church has been ordered to be out of the country by tomorrow. He's a native of Ghana, and has been here since 2014. His religious visa has expired. He and the Church have been working on getting him an extension for about a year and have basically been stonewalled by ICE. The fact that many in his parish are Spanish-speaking immigrants probably doesn't help.
I can't help thinking that if he was a Protestant fundamentalist from northern Europe there'd have been no delay.

I'd link to the local paper but it's paywalled.
 
Excerpt from the article:
In order not to jeopardize his green card application, Adoko-Enchill must be out of the United States by the deadline, McHattie said. “If he overstays (the Dec. 1 expiration on his current permission) he can be deported and he would not be able to get back in.”

“They have been working on getting his visa approved for 10 months. They have had no response from Immigration, period, in that time,” said McHattie, who is a U.S. Justice Department-accredited representative to help people with immigration paperwork.

“He supports us,” parishioner Natalia Guevara said of the nearly 200 church members who attend the Spanish-language service he conducts at Star of the Sea. “Everybody was crying,” she said. “He was open to let us share with him our lives, not just like a priest, but like a friend.”
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Church Website
 
Trebuchet said:
I'm no fan of the RC church, but I'm even less so of the racist Trump administration.
The priest at the local church has been ordered to be out of the country by tomorrow. He's a native of Ghana, and has been here since 2014. His religious visa has expired. He and the Church have been working on getting him an extension for about a year and have basically been stonewalled by ICE. The fact that many in his parish are Spanish-speaking immigrants probably doesn't help.
I can't help thinking that if he was a Protestant fundamentalist from northern Europe there'd have been no delay.

I'd link to the local paper but it's paywalled.
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That's what you get when you're born in a predominantly black/brown nation. If it's also a poor one, best not to even apply for a tourist visa.
 
Trebuchet said:
I'm no fan of the RC church, but I'm even less so of the racist Trump administration.
The priest at the local church has been ordered to be out of the country by tomorrow. He's a native of Ghana, and has been here since 2014. His religious visa has expired. He and the Church have been working on getting him an extension for about a year and have basically been stonewalled by ICE. The fact that many in his parish are Spanish-speaking immigrants probably doesn't help.
I can't help thinking that if he was a Protestant fundamentalist from northern Europe there'd have been no delay.

I'd link to the local paper but it's paywalled.
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https://www.uscis.gov/working-unite.../r-1-temporary-nonimmigrant-religious-workers

"USCIS may grant R-1 status for an initial period of admission for up to 30 months. Subsequent extensions may be granted for up to an additional 30 months. The religious worker’s total period of stay in the United States in R-1 classification cannot exceed five years (60 months)."

If he's been here since 2014 on an R-1 visa, that's 5 years. He's not eligible for an R-1 visa extension. He may be trying to get a permanent visa, and there is one for religious workers:

https://www.uscis.gov/working-unite...ence-eb-4/special-immigrant-religious-workers

I have no idea what the standard time line for visa applications of this sort are, so I have no way of knowing whether this is a typical delay or out of the ordinary.
 
No link to the story. No word about ICE's position on this. Just a link to the church. Could there be more to the story, fellow critical thinkers? I'm seeing a pretty big fallacy or two in this thread.

Perhaps they have good reasons for this? Surely some people that are deported should be.

I await more info.

And ya, nobody is ever let in from "brown" countries. :rolleyes:
 
mgidm86 said:
No link to the story. No word about ICE's position on this. Just a link to the church. Could there be more to the story, fellow critical thinkers? I'm seeing a pretty big fallacy or two in this thread.
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This is hardly a forum of critical thinking.
 
One would think the Catholic Church and the INS would have worked out a system to handle all these matters, what with them both possessing enormous bureaucracies and this being pretty standard operational stuff for both of them.
 
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I just looked at the wait times for processing in WA state (Seattle is closest to him). It is 10-19.5 months. Other areas of the state are up to 2 years. They only applied 10 months ago so what is the case for him to jump the line? Do priests normally get fast-tracked before other applicants?

Seems like a case of just not applying early enough.
 
Trebuchet said:
I'm no fan of the RC church, but I'm even less so of the racist Trump administration.
The priest at the local church has been ordered to be out of the country by tomorrow. He's a native of Ghana, and has been here since 2014. His religious visa has expired. He and the Church have been working on getting him an extension for about a year and have basically been stonewalled by ICE. The fact that many in his parish are Spanish-speaking immigrants probably doesn't help.
I can't help thinking that if he was a Protestant fundamentalist from northern Europe there'd have been no delay.

I'd link to the local paper but it's paywalled.
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How, exactly, is the Trump administration racist?
 
Trebuchet said:
I'm no fan of the RC church, but I'm even less so of the racist Trump administration.
The priest at the local church has been ordered to be out of the country by tomorrow. He's a native of Ghana, and has been here since 2014. His religious visa has expired. He and the Church have been working on getting him an extension for about a year and have basically been stonewalled by ICE. The fact that many in his parish are Spanish-speaking immigrants probably doesn't help.
I can't help thinking that if he was a Protestant fundamentalist from northern Europe there'd have been no delay.

I'd link to the local paper but it's paywalled.
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You are blaming one persons immigration issue directly to the president?

Awesome
 
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