2w ago

German national with U.S. green card detained at ICE facility, family says

www.nbcnews.com

Summary

U.S. immigration authorities detained Fabian Schmidt, a 34-year-old German national and legal U.S. resident, at Boston Logan Airport on March 7.

He was interrogated, hospitalized, and later transferred to an ICE detention facility in Rhode Island. His family, unaware of any legal issues, has hired a lawyer.

Schmidt had recently traveled to Germany and was returning home to New Hampshire. His case raises concerns amid Trump’s stricter immigration policies.

The German embassy is monitoring the situation but has not disclosed details. ICE has not commented.

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2w ago

German national with U.S. green card detained at ICE facility, family says

www.nbcnews.com /news/us-news/german-national-green-card-holder-immigration-detention-fabian-schmidt-rcna196714

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He required medical attention at some point during the interrogation and he was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, Senior said.
What the fuck?!
So “interrogation” just automatically means physical violence to ICE?? Not sure if there’s a better way to read that. I doubt he coincidentally came down with a bad cold in the middle of an interrogation. Fucking thugs.
- "It was just said that his green card was flagged," Senior told WGBH. She said her son was "violently interrogated," stripped naked by immigration officials and put into a cold shower.
  "He hardly got anything to drink. And then he wasn't feeling very well and he collapsed," she said.
  Source: Newsweek
  
  Basically torture yep. Dont go to the US.
  
  Fuuuck this is infuriating. Thanks for the extra details.
  
  Violently interrogated, huh?
  Torture is a significantly shorter way to say that.
- Gestapo

Even the Whites!? I thought this shit government wasn’t for DEI.
- Lol I am genuinely surprised that this happened to a white man with blue eyes.
  
  My guess is they trawled his social media and saw he posted something about Palestinians deserving to be treated as humans.
- Yeah tbh my spouse is from the UK and we ain't flying nowhere for a while
  
  My wife was about to leave to visit Canada soon. Might be time to rethink that trip.
- Clearly it's because they stopped him to verify he was a Nazi. When it became obvious he wasn't, everything else is the natural response of the ICE immune system of course. Purging anything non-Bald Eagle Screeching Aryan.
- And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth.
  Benjamin Franklin, delusionally Anglo supremacist and US ~~God~~ founding father

Damn, they're really desperate to fill the quotas I guess
- That's what it is, yes. They're not even close to the proposed numbers so they detain and deport whoever they can, and then "investigate" their mistakes.
  
  Dumb question: Is that because there are far fewer people without documentation than expected?

ICE fucked with the Germans. I certainly hope swift action is taken.
- This is the 3rd (or 4th ?) incident with German citizen. Authorities put the US on the watchlist now
  
  Fun.
  anxiously anticipates absolutely nothing happening

In german news they added this part (translated from source "RND"):
Old drug offense as a possible background
According to his mother, Schmidt's questioning repeatedly revolved around a cannabis offense from almost ten years ago. At that time, Schmidt was arrested in California with more than 30 grams of cannabis. The case was dropped. In 2022, however, a federal investigative agency contacted Schmidt again about the case and summoned him to a hearing. However, he failed to appear because he hadn't received the letter due to a move.
RND/dpa

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