Meet Rodney Taylor, the double amputated that the Trump regime has locked itself, ready to expulsion

Donald Trump, JD Vance, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, Tom Homan and the other architects of the anti-immigrant assault constantly tell the Americans that the multi-mid-milliard expulsion machine of several dollars, fueled by AI, takes the worst street streets.

During his horrible blood and solar speech at the United Nations this week, Trump boasted of locking the United States and told other countries that they “went to hell” for having followed a “globalist” program and leaving a large number of immigrants. The members of the Trump team frequently support that by sending migrants to detention centers that are increasingly similar to concentration camps, they simply disseminate the brutal treatment that the bad guys deserve and dissuade others who would dare to dream that it is a country in which they could park their hopes. HOMAN – The TSAR border with an ethically challenged challenge would have accepted silver bags before the 2024 elections – rejected rider of allegations of too severe conditions such as “a bull of bullshit”.

In reality, we don’t even know the full extent of cruel treatment. Immigrants regularly disappear from government databases, as more than 1,000 apparently did in the weeks following the Florida alligator that Alcatraz began to close. ACLU has called installations such as the Alligator Alcatraz “Black Holes” and allegedly alleged that the members and lawyers for the detainees cannot locate them. Many have probably been illegally expelled. The federal government does not even pretend to seek them. After all, if they are the worst, why be disturbed if they have disappeared?

On Wednesday, when a sniper shot in the installation of Dallas Ice, killing at least an immigrant detainee, the instinctive response of the administration was to criticize progressives to demonize the ice. The FBI feckless director Kash Patel immediately went to social networks to affirm that there was an ideological motif for the shooting, and Trump and Noem jumped to the conclusion that the “disturbed radical leftists” with a disgust of ice were to blame. There was, it goes without saying, not a word of sympathy for the real victims. Again, if these are the worst of the worst, why waste blows with them and their families?

But it turns out that the “worst of the worst” which take place in the archipelago of detention of American immigrants are mostly only men and women who try to join both ends, trying to feed their families and hoping to avoid deportation to land which probably promises poverty, political chaos, ecological degradation and perhaps torture and death.

Take Rodney Taylor. Taylor was born in Liberia in 1978 with important handicaps: his left leg had a club foot; He had neither Rabate nor Tibia; His right foot was missing; His right hand had only one thumb. At the age of 2, the Hospital for Children Shriners brought it to the United States for a large series of surgeries. His parents settled in the county of Gwynette, in Georgia, and in the coming years, the young boy had both amputated legs and the adjusted cutting -edge prostheses. He also had several plastic surgeries on his hand to build the little finger so that he could grasp objects between his thumb and his finger.

His family stayed in the United States. After all, a boy with two missing legs and a crippled hand would be in serious danger in Liberia torn by the war of the time. In recognition of this, when Taylor was 7 years old, the American government gave him an i-130, which is a “petition for a foreign parent”, deposited by a American citizen or a legal permanent parent, who puts the beneficiary on the path of a green card. The i-130 projected it from the expulsion and allowed his family to start the process of requesting legal status for the child.

In the coming years, his parents have obtained a permanent resident status and then citizenship. But Taylor was not so lucky. At 17, he was arrested and accused of residential burglary – even if he could barely walk and there is a doubt if he could have physically committed the crime. On the advice of his lawyer, however, he pleaded guilty and the judge sentenced him to probation.

Because Taylor could not pay the legal costs of $ 750, he was tried in violation of the terms of his probation, and the adolescent ended up serving nine months in prison. The greater penalty was that it put its quest for permanent legal status pending. Even if the status of his parents was legalized, he remained in a legal limbo. He would remain unable to claim government benefits and not to take a job. During the following decades, he worked for money under the table to save money to buy his leg prostheses.

Taylor formed himself as a hairdresser, established a successful career, generated seven children and has become a must of his community – the man who would cut hair free of charge during school meetings, church fundraising and raising awareness for breast cancer.

In 2010, needing forgiveness to advance his immigration case, he called on the board of directors of the pardons and the parole. And on December 2 of the same year, after the board of directors found it “a citizen respectful of the laws [who] is fully rehabilitated, ”he received a complete forgiveness. His lawyers told him if he stayed in trouble for seven years, so he could ask to change his immigration status. The documents indicated, however, that this did not involve innocence “, and ordered that all civil and political rights, except the right to receive, have or transport a firefighter in the trade” are returned.

More than 14 years later, in the contribution of the inauguration of Trump, Ice used this language to justify the arrest of Taylor in front of his fiancée, Mildred Pierre and his young children. This could not have been a “complete forgiveness”, they reasoned, if it was still not allowed to carry or have a firearm, and therefore has remained a target of high priority for expulsion. “I was devastated,” spoke to Taylor, who was far from the process of legalizing his status. “I had just engaged for 10 days before that.”

Taylor has been in the Stewart detention center in Georgia for more than eight months now, killing time by reading the Bible, playing chess and writing in his newspaper. He constantly suffers because his prostheses depend on the battery for their flexibility. When the power descends, it feels that its members drag huge, heavy and rigid objects. His strains have rubbed, because it is terrified to remove the hinds, which hold his prostheses in place at night, fearing that they are stolen or broken. He can only travel short distances, but the guards will often not allow other detainees to go to the cafeteria for him and bring his meals to his cell. And even when they do it, food, he said, “is horrible. It’s not good for you, and they feed the same things every day.” When he has a medical problem and puts an appointment request, it takes two weeks for installation to send him an answer.

Once a month, Mildred and their children arrive in a mini-duties and lead the two and a half hours to see Taylor. When they get there, they said they were allowed to visit a glass partition for only an hour. Other than that, they communicate by phone. The couple estimate that they spend more than $ 100 per week on phone bills. On the phone, he tells him that the ice officers put it on several occasions to sign documents accepting to retire.

It is difficult to imagine how this 47 -year -old man could be counted among the worst. He is, says his family, a loving, attentive and hardworking family support. “He has a very contagious and contagious laugh, a laugh Eddie Murphy,” said his fiancée.

However, the government wants to send him back to Liberia, where he has not been since the age of 2. If it is expelled, Pierre said: “He will die. They do not have this type of medical accommodation. There is no medical support. It would be a death sentence. I almost feel like a widow – and he is not dead.”

Trump and his henchmen have repercussions against the alleged propensity for the violence of progressives. But how do you call throwing a double amputee in prison to put pressure on this man to manage in a country in which he will probably meet a quick death? It seems to me that the worst of the worst are not those expelled; They are the ones who expulsion.