Our society
has done a lot of people a great disservice in many ways in recent years, especially by telling them they are entitled to things that they are not: like
expecting a foreign country to submit its will to their feelings, rather than
living according to the rules of the country they want to live in.
This man only
has himself to blame for his situation,
“An
Irishman who overstayed his 90-day tourist visa more than 15 years ago has been
held in a Texas immigration detention facility for nearly five months rather
than be deported, despite calling it a form of “torture.”
Seamus
Culleton, who is married to an American woman, told Irish media that he has a
valid US work permit and a pending green card application when he was suddenly
picked up by agents in Boston, where he runs a construction company.
He
was cuffed and eventually flown more than 2,000 miles from home to a camp
facility at Fort Bliss Army base in Texas, where he alleges he’s been locked in
the same “filthy” room.
“It’s
a nightmare down here,” Culleton complained to RTE, caiming he is “in fear for
my life.”
“It’s
just a torture, I just don’t know how much more I can take.”
The
Kilkenny native claimed that he did not know why he was being held — while
admitting that he refused to sign papers approving his deportation.
Department
of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin cited that as proof that
the Irishman chose to stay in detention, while stressing he was only in the
country by overstaying his initial tourist visa.
“He
entered the United States in 2009 under the visa waiver program, which allows
you to stay in the US for 90 days without a visa. He failed to depart the US,”
she said in a statement on X.
“He
received full due process and was issued a final order of removal by an
immigration judge on September 10, 2025,” McLaughlin continued.
“He
was offered the chance to instantly be removed to Ireland but chose to stay in
ICE custody, in fact he took affirmative steps to remain in detention,” she
stressed.[1]
“The Kilkenny
native claimed that he did not know why he was being held — while admitting
that he refused to sign papers approving his deportation.” Seriously bro, it is
simple, you are not American and therefore have no right to stay in America.
They have every right to ask you to leave and then make you leave when you don’t
want to. Your ability to dodge being sent home for so long does not change
this.
He stayed
illegally. He was offered a quick flight home. And he refused it, because he
feels like America is his home. But what people feel about their situation is
not the reality of their situation.
Nor is it cruelty
or injustice to send people home, even those who don't want to go.
The central
narrative of the Old Testament proves this. It was injustice to keep the
Hebrews in Egypt, but it was not injustice to send them home.
Some will
say, “But they wanted to leave? Because they were slaves in Egypt remember.”
They did?
Read it
again. Read how many times they wanted to be back in Egypt. Seriously, many had
no desire to leave.
Here is one example,
“Numbers 11:4–5 “4 Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And
the people of Israel also wept again and said, “Oh that we had meat to eat! 5 We
remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons,
the leeks, the onions, and the garlic” (Numbers 11:4-5). The Hebrews tried to
go back before they crossed the Red Sea, as well. They even tried to stop Moses
from agitating for their freedom.
Sending
people home cannot be called injustice, because it was part of a central act of
justice in the Bible to send people home. This man should take his free ticket,
thank them for their gracious offer, and repent for creating a situation where
his family could be sundered like this. He should also apologize to his family
and their extended family for what he is seeking to put them through.
The
entitlement of foreigners to come to another country and then expect that
country to mould their laws around their desires has gone way toooo far for way
toooo long. It is not cruel to turn this around.
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