Scientist and green-card holder detained at San Francisco Airport
According to his lawyer, a Texas Lyme-Hasar researcher who came to the United States from South Korea at the age of 5, and a long-term resident of San Francisco International Airport has been detained for a week.
Eric Lee, a lawyer who said that he could not speak to his client Tae Heung, 40 -year -old Tae Heung, returned from his brother’s wedding in South Korea on July 21 when he withdrew from the secondary scan on July 21st.
Lee said where Kim is currently being and Kim was not allowed to communicate with anyone except for a short call to his family last week. A Senate office told him that he had moved to an immigration facility in Texas, and that a representative from the Korean consulate would be sent to Kim’s family elsewhere.
“We have no idea where to go,” Lee said. “We don’t know why.”
Since 2011, Kabahat had failed to have a marijuana marijuana, but his lawyer questioned whether this would deserve to be kept in a windowless room under the terminals at the airport for a week.
Representatives of the Ministry of Internal Security did not respond immediately to La Times’s request for comments. However, a spokesman for customs and border protection He told the Washington PostHe first reported the story that he was in the alien, in the ice custody waiting for the lifting hearings ”.
The spokesman also said: “If a green card holder is convicted of a drug offense that violates his status, a notification is given to appear and the CBP coordinates the detention field. [Immigration and Customs Enforcement]. “
Kim’s lawyer said that his client was taken into custody because he had a small grass when he was taken 15 years ago in his 20s, ”he said:“ If every American with a small amount of grass in his cars was detained under these conditions ”.
Kim’s mother, Jehoon “Sharon ,, told Washington Post that his son was worried about his health in custody.
“He has had asthma since his youth,” Washington said to the Post. “I don’t know if there is enough medicine. It carries an inhaler, but I don’t know if it is enough, because there is a week.”
His mother was very old to obtain Kim’s automatic citizenship when they became a citizenship of citizenship.
Kim has a green card, and after his father’s death, he spent most of his life in the United States after helping his family’s baby production business, recently entered a PhD program in Texas A & M, and helps to investigate a vaccine for Lyme disease.
There are multiple reports throughout the country USA permanent residents are detained at the airports, Especially no matter how small, those who have criminal records. These cases asked Some experts will warn These green card holders should avoid abandoning the country to reduce the risk of not allowing back.
