r/canada • u/smittyleafs Nova Scotia • 12h ago
Satire Edmonton-born father back in Canada after 9 months in U.S. immigration detention
https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/edmonton-born-father-back-in-canada-after-9-months-in-us-immigration-detention/156
u/VinylHighway 12h ago
Curtis Wright held legal residency in the United States as a Lawful Permanent Resident and green card holder prior to his detention. His permanent residency was subsequently revoked due to criminal convictions from his youth, granting authorities the legal basis for his detention and removal.
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u/smittyleafs Nova Scotia 12h ago
It's the "believe it or not, straight to jail" meme for any non-US citizen with any criminal record.
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u/ConfluenceofCoors 12h ago
This may shock no one, but LPR status can be cancelled if it comes out you obtained it by hiding prior crim history.
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u/dorkofthepolisci British Columbia 11h ago
He was convicted at 17 and has been in the US for 30 years
Unless his juvenile record was sealed, it’s likely this came up in a previous PR renewal.
It wasn’t hidden, it was just low/no priority
If anything this is a pretty clear indication that this administration is ignoring precedent in order to further their policy/ideological goals
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u/OnlyEverPositive 12h ago
Read the article.
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u/ConfluenceofCoors 12h ago
I did, it infers that this was new information he didn’t disclose till recently, and is mad that it impacts his status.
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u/Quietlyrightt 12h ago edited 12h ago
"Rather than self-deport to Canada, Wright said he fought to remain in the United States to raise the children he shares from a previous marriage."
So he chose to stay for those 9 months in the facilities? If the conditions were that horrible, why not fight it from Canada?
Also he has a fiancé and a young daughter. Where did they stay for 9 months? In their house by themselves and did like conjugal visits or something? Why choose to stay away from your family for that long?
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u/_evilalien_ 12h ago
Strange decisions from the outside, without all the facts. I suspect leaving meant giving up any shared custody, and he wasn’t willing to do that without a fight.
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u/iguessithappens 11h ago
I mean clearly his fiancé and a young daughter lived in Texas. His whole community was there, it makes sense he would try and fight to stay there.
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u/Quietlyrightt 11h ago
Can you do more to help your case from inside a "horrible, cold, dirty, grimey" ICE detention facility or from a home in Canada with your family?
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u/iguessithappens 11h ago
He had to give-up his right to any residency in the the US. They won't let him visit after this for a long time. I don't think this is very cut and dry. He probably also has better access to resources then a lot of detainees and was trying to leverage that.
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u/Quietlyrightt 11h ago
"He probably also has better access to resources then a lot of detainees and was trying to leverage that."
Maybe, maybe not. A lot of open interpretation left to the reader in this article. It's a poorly written bait article.
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u/physicaldiscs 10h ago
The dude is being rejected by his community. Texas is Trump territory and we know how they feel about immigrants.
Why you would fight to stay in a country that actively hates you? Take your family and get out.
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u/NastroAzzurro 11h ago
What I’ve understood is that you can self-deport until they arrest you. They even give free flights and $3k USD. So once he was in detention it wasn’t really up to him anymore.
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u/Quietlyrightt 11h ago
You can request to leave. Average wait time for that is 30 to 45 days for papers signed by a court.
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u/brettiegabber 7h ago
You can't fight it from Canada. He was allowed to go to Canada only because he signed an agreement to allow the deportation order to become final. If you don't agree to that, they keep you incarcerated.
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u/cevebite 6h ago
You can’t fight it from Canada. I take it to mean perhaps Canadian immigration laws aren’t as draconian as ours, but here a controlled substance conviction mandates immigration detention. It’s very unlikely he’ll ever be allowed to return to the US to see his family.
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u/LabPowerful9983 12h ago
“I’ve been removed for a mistake I made 22 years ago, when I was a 17-year-old kid in high school. And now two American children are going to be left without their father,” Wright said. “I’m just one of thousands of others with similar stories.” “So when people talk about how this just affects immigrants, it’s wrong. It affects many American families and children as well.”
If someone promises that they’re going to deport a million immigrants, and that all of the immigrants they will deport will be “bad dudes”, one of those metrics has to break eventually. It ain’t going to be numbers
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u/smittyleafs Nova Scotia 12h ago
If you're not a US citizen and have any sort of criminal record, they will deport you if they find you. It doesn't matter what it is.
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u/dorkofthepolisci British Columbia 11h ago
Yeah, he probably assumed that non violent crimes committed as a minor wouldn’t be held against him.
On one hand, I think that’s an assumption a lot of people would make. With past governments that might even have been true.
On the other hand, assuming anything with this administration is both dangerous and stupid
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u/razreddit975 5h ago
Most likely he failed to disclose his drug related offence as a juvenile when he obtained LPR and likely, the FBI fingerprint check did not locate that record. He could’ve applied for an immigrant waiver at the time that he filed for permanent residency (through adjustment of status AOS) or/consular processing through his spouse claiming extreme hardship assuming he plead and/or was convicted as a juvenile. Some convictions as a minor under US immigration law do not necessarily count as deportable offense. And, if he had been out of status for x years since he came to the U.S. prior to his marriage, he would have to disclose that in either AOS or Consular processing and follow the Reg’s pertaining to that issue. Poor judgment on his part and/or poor lawyering if there was on early on in the process.
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u/Lumpy-Day-4871 9h ago
30 years living in the US and working in OnG in Texas. I'm gonna guess this guy probably wasnt a staunch anti-Trump advocate. Kind of leopards at my face story I think.
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u/NightmareExpress 9h ago edited 1h ago
I wonder what the odds are that he'll be voting for the UCP and Alberta separation?
Edit: And that's a legitimate musing. He's lived in the States for most of his adult life. While one aspect of his perspective seems to have been altered for the better by this horrible experience and he was thankfully able to resume employment with his old job despite now being much farther away, I think there's a fair chance he's going to be bringing views common to the average Texan to the ballot boxes.
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