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This is the illegal immigrant that NPR wants you to feel sorry for

Posted on 10/20/25 at 1:38 pm
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
34152 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 1:38 pm
ICE tried to send one immigrant to a country he never lived in. Then he lawyered up

That is the headline. Below is the rest of the story:

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he had come from the former Soviet Union as a refugee at the age of 4. And that when he was a teenager, his green card was revoked after pleading guilty to carjacking and burglary charges in California.

He explained that after being released from prison, in 2014, he spent time in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody while they tried — and failed — to deport him to Ukraine and Russia.

Both countries, according to legal filings reviewed by NPR, could not provide or confirm Surovtsev's citizenship since he left before the fall of the Soviet Union. They couldn't give him the travel documents needed for deportation.


Apparently Ukrainians fighting in the Ukraine war is not good.

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According to the Surovtsevs' lawyers and court filings, ICE has been trying for a second time to deport Roman to Ukraine, which does not have the documentation to prove his citizenship and could draft him into armed conflict. In court filings, his lawyers argue that his re-detention is unconstitutional since there's been no change to make it easier to deport him to his place of birth and that there is "not a significant likelihood that Roman would be removed in the reasonably foreseeable future."
This post was edited on 10/20/25 at 1:41 pm
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
91710 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 1:40 pm to
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ICE has been trying for a second time to deport Roman to Ukraine, which does not have the documentation to prove his citizenship and could draft him into armed conflict
wait dont we love it when people go to the Ukraine to fight for freedom?
Posted by BeepBopBoop
Northshore
Member since Dec 2023
1177 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 1:40 pm to
Haiti sounds good, they’ll cook and eat him in 4 weeks
This post was edited on 10/20/25 at 1:41 pm
Posted by Wildcat1996
Lexington, KY
Member since Jul 2020
9495 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 1:43 pm to
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Ukraine, which does not have the documentation to prove his citizenship


So to be admitted to a country, it is important to be able to document that you are a citizen? Interesting.

Posted by SallysHuman
Lady Palmetto Bug
Member since Jan 2025
15029 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 1:43 pm to
Let him pick a side and fight for it.

Or.. send him to a third country.

He does not belong here.
Posted by Bard
Definitely NOT an admin
Member since Oct 2008
58000 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 1:50 pm to
US territorial waters extend 12 nautical miles from the coast. Drop him off 12.1 miles out.
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
34152 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 1:54 pm to
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So to be admitted to a country, it is important to be able to document that you are a citizen? Interesting.


It's like crazy world. They can't prove he is a citizen because he left before the fall of the Soviet Union, so we let him stay here where we CAN prove he is definitely not a citizen.

So, we are stuck with a car-jacking ex-con.
Posted by ChineseBandit58
Pearland, TX
Member since Aug 2005
48163 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 2:03 pm to
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So to be admitted to a country, it is important to be able to document that you are a citizen? Interesting.

shhhhhh - don't let that secret out - just because YOU could figure this out, doesn't mean other could
Posted by Kjnstkmn
Vermilion Parish
Member since Aug 2020
19544 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 2:16 pm to
Posted by tigerfan 64
in the LP
Member since Sep 2016
6153 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 3:10 pm to
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to carjacking and burglary charges in California.

So radicalized California can arrest carjacking burglers and send them to prison after all.

Who wudda thunk it.
This post was edited on 10/20/25 at 5:31 pm
Posted by UncleFestersLegs
Member since Nov 2010
16562 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 5:00 pm to
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Ukraine, which does not have the documentation to prove his citizenship
neither does the US. Bye
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
86320 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 5:04 pm to
Im assuming it's a white guy?


NPR is using this story because they believe you are racist. So they are trying to appeal to your racist emotions on them deporting a white guy.

But it's not going to work because we don't care if you are from Russia or Mexico. If you are here illegally, you can leave.
Posted by Westbank111
Armpit of America
Member since Sep 2013
4592 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 10:53 pm to
El Salvador has an open bunk.

Plus they could use some “diversity”, a little change up from the ESSSAYYYZZZ
Posted by TROLA
BATON ROUGE
Member since Apr 2004
14433 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 10:57 pm to
Refugee at age 4 makes sending him away seem a bit odd.. not sure there’s a good way on this one…
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
154451 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 11:02 pm to
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This is the illegal immigrant that NPR wants you to feel sorry for
Yacht Journalism
Posted by TigersSEC2010
Warren, Michigan
Member since Jan 2010
38188 posts
Posted on 10/21/25 at 3:44 am to
Send him to Uganda with Maryland man and be done with him. Who gives a frick what happens to him after
Posted by Wildcat1996
Lexington, KY
Member since Jul 2020
9495 posts
Posted on 10/21/25 at 7:49 am to
The leftists are losing so badly these days that they have been reduced to whining about the cost of a pair of Gulf Streams for DHS.

NYT

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The Department of Homeland Security has purchased two Gulfstream private jets for Kristi Noem, the secretary, and other top department officials at a cost of $172 million, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.

The jets, which a department official said were needed for safety, are the latest expenditures on behalf of Ms. Noem to draw scrutiny from Democrats and other critics who have noted her lavish spending on living and other expenses during her time in public life.

The Coast Guard put in its budget earlier this year a request to purchase a new long-range Gulfstream V jet, estimated to cost $50 million, to replace an aging one used by Ms. Noem.

“The avionics are increasingly obsolete, the communications are increasingly unreliable and it’s in need of recapitalization, like much of the rest of the fleet,” Kevin Lunday, the acting commandant of the Coast Guard, told members of Congress at a hearing in May.
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