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Leading Trinidad Activist For NYC Immigrants May Face Deportation

Postby tallman1986 » March 9th, 2017, 10:55 am

http://gothamist.com/2017/03/08/deporta ... tivist.php

On Thursday morning, Ravi Ragbir will arrive at Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan for his annual check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. After passing through airport-style security, Ragbir, who was born in Trinidad, will head to a familiar room on the 9th floor, undecorated but for a small television typically tuned to Fox News. Here, an ICE deportation officer will decide if Ragbir can remain in the country he's called home for 26 years.
"I'm preparing for the worst," says Ragbir, who has faced the looming threat of deportation since his conviction for wire fraud in 2001. "I'm not planning any appointments after March 9th. I've cleaned out my apartment."
It's the Friday before the check-in and Ragbir and I are riding an express train to his office at Judson Memorial Church, where he serves as executive director of the New Sanctuary Coalition, an interfaith network of congregations and activists working to protect New York's immigrant families from detention and deportation. Ragbir started as a full-time organizer for the coalition in 2010, and has since become one of the city's most visible immigrant rights activists.
"Ravi is the most connected leader around," Donna Sprecher, minister at Judson and a founder of the coalition, told Gothamist. "He knows by name more undocumented people than just about anybody in the five boroughs."
At Times Square, Ragbir's phone lights up with news of a reported ICE raid in Queens. He fires off a few texts, then looks up from his phone. "What do you do in the last weekend?" he asks.
Ragbir says that he has promised his wife they'd do something special on what might be their last weekend together in the city. People have suggested Coney Island, but it's bitterly cold outside. They've never been to the top of the Empire State Building, but like most New Yorkers, they have no real interest in doing so.
"That's the easiest question, you would think, to answer, but it might be the most difficult," Ragbir says. "I can think about immigration and legal [matters] and all of this stuff and come up with some solution or strategy. But this, I don't know."

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Re: Leading Trinidad Activist For NYC Immigrants May Face Deportation

Postby EFFECTIC DESIGNS » March 9th, 2017, 11:16 am

"I'm preparing for the worst," says Ragbir, who has faced the looming threat of deportation since his conviction for wire fraud in 2001.

In the United States, mail and wire fraud is any fraudulent scheme to intentionally deprive another of property or honest services via mail or wire communication. It has been a federal crime in the United States since 1872.

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Re: Leading Trinidad Activist For NYC Immigrants May Face Deportation

Postby Miktay » March 9th, 2017, 11:27 am

If Mr. Ragbir really wants to remain in USA he can.

But it wont be cheap.

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Re: Leading Trinidad Activist For NYC Immigrants May Face Deportation

Postby EFFECTIC DESIGNS » March 9th, 2017, 11:37 am

I am not surprised by the sensationalist headlines anymore. You read the headlines you immediately feel sorry for the individual, poor person being targeted by big bad police.

Then you actually read the article and somewhere in there it says the person is a convicted criminal, in this case he was convicted of wire-fraud.

I sure am glad I wasn't the victim of his scam.

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Re: Leading Trinidad Activist For NYC Immigrants May Face Deportation

Postby 88sins » March 9th, 2017, 12:49 pm

How old is this man now? because somethings not making much sense here. he's been there for 26 years. & in 2001 he was convicted of wire fraud.
so by my math he was there for a full decade before his conviction. thats a lot of time to sort out his immigration issues.
he should have put a bit more time & effort into legitimizing his own immigration status,BEFORE getting locked up, if he really knew he wanted to stay there.

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Re: Leading Trinidad Activist For NYC Immigrants May Face Deportation

Postby desifemlove » March 9th, 2017, 12:55 pm

i have no sympathy for this man.

is he a citizen? if so, then how come he didn't have time in 26 years to naturalise?

and he's a jailbird too? Didn't he think that committing a felony in US law would worsen his hand? Just another deportee/ex-con to come back now.

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Re: Leading Trinidad Activist For NYC Immigrants May Face Deportation

Postby zorced » March 9th, 2017, 2:21 pm

You can turn your life around after prison, I will never reject that right from an ex-convict, but I'm struggling to find a reason to give this man a break because this type of journalism always leaves me with more questions than answers. Haven't they learned from 2016 at all?

Less than 5% of this article Here's how one New Yorker is helping immigrants — himself included — with government check-ins sheds light on the crime, but here it is:

Ragbir’s entanglements with the US immigration system began in 2001, seven years after he immigrated to the US with a green card. That means he came as a legal permanent resident. He was convicted for wire fraud after the mortgage company that he worked for was investigated for fraudulent loan applications. He served a five-year jail sentence, then spent two years in immigration detention while he was in deportation proceedings.


Immigration activists march 12 miles from Ellis Island to Elizabeth detention facility

Since 2011 he has been fighting deportation, so it is not just a Trump thing. Obama also pushed for deporting immigrants who had criminal records.
“Obama deported more than 3 million people. He wasn’t liberal,” says Ragbir.

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