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"Political prisoner" is an inherently vague term which is most commonly applied to people persecuted for their political beliefs or for their "threat" to the government. [ 1 ] Imprisonment for mere expression of political beliefs is rare in the modern United States, because free speech and free expression are well-established in law. [ 2 ]
The following is an incomplete list of notable people who have been deported from the United States. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), particularly the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), handles all matters of deportation. [1]
24 months in prison; two years of probation; 100 hours of community service; $2,000 restitution [34] 53-year-old retired Air Force lieutenant colonel from Grapevine, Texas. One of the two men seen carrying plastic handcuffs as they moved through the Capitol, he was wearing a tactical vest and a green combat helmet.
Knife-wielding Tren de Aragua gang members are mobbing border crossings at El Paso, Texas, in an attempt to break into the US — and have said they will attack border guards who try to stop them ...
Members of the National Guard patrolling the border as part of Operation Lone Star have repeatedly assaulted migrants and asylum-seekers, fired “less-than-lethal” projectiles at them, pushed ...
Also in May, a former Border Patrol agent was sentenced to 18 months in prison for accepting a $5,000 bribe to provide immigration paperwork to illegal border crossers, according to another complaint.
Released from prison in 2014 and deported to Canada where he was born. [69] May 15, 2019: Patrick James Nolan: Eastern District of California: February 18, 1994 33 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and $10,000 fine Conducting the affairs of an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering
The Republican president's pardon of 1,500 defendants drew outrage from lawmakers who were endangered in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, when thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an ...