If you think the ICE crackdown is about deporting dangerous MS-13 gang members and terrorists, think again, because the stark reality is, if you’re in this country, from another country and you’ve committed a crime, any crime, you may be on the ICE radar and resulting chopping block.
Take the current example of a 43-year-old Polish doctor living in the U.S. since the age 5, that has been jailed by ICE agents over a couple of expunged misdemeanors he committed when he was 17.
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Dr. Lukasz Niec, 43, of Michigan, has been detained and is facing deportation over a pair of decades old criminal offenses he committed 25 years ago proving the wide scope of the ICE roundup.
Dr. Niec, who claims he was brought legally to the United States from Poland by his parents in 1979, is now living in a Calhoun County, MI., jail cell after being taken in custody by ICE officers at his home last Tuesday.
ICE says the doctor’s detention is due to two crimes – destruction of property less than $100 and receiving and concealing stolen goods. Both crimes committed when he was a teenager.
According to DailyNews, Niec pled guilty to the decades old charges and under a program known as the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act, his criminal record was expunged as part of the program’s fresh start for young, first-time offenders.
That said, ICE insists that because they are a federal agency they do not have to honor state plea agreements, which puts the immigration status of the physician in serious jeopardy.
While ICE agents maintain they are simply following orders and the law, Niec’s family members are crying foul, saying his detention is unwarranted.
“He doesn’t even speak Polish,” says Niec’s sister.
“He cannot go back to Poland, a country he doesn’t know, he has no family at,” Iwona Niec-Villaire, his sister and a corporate lawyer, told local news outlets.
“Both our parents passed away in the United States. He doesn’t know anyone, he wouldn’t know where to go.”
“Until this gets heard, which could be up to six months, he could be stuck in a prison cell and not helping and being with his family,” lemented Niec’s sister.
The ICE arrest of Dr. Niec should prove as a warning to all DACA recipients and others illegally in this country who did not follow the law during their stay, you will surely be held to the same standard as the good doctor.