Taahir Shaikh needed header for his new jobs, so he set an appointment with a photographer called Ward Sakeik. One date turned into three pictures of pictures, and the two continued to talk.
Three years later, the newly married couple was enjoyable to go in the honeymoon.
But after spending nine days in the American Virgin Islands, the couple’s journey, Bassikk, 22, who was arrested for months in many American immigration detention centers.
Sakk, whose family was from Gaza but she is legal, has lived in the United States since she was eight years old, when her family traveled to the United States on a tourist visa and applied for asylum, according to her husband. While a deportation order was issued more than a decade ago, SAKEIK was allowed to stay in the United States according to what is known as the “supervision arrangement”, where she registered regularly with federal immigration authorities and allowed her permission to work, according to her lawyer and her husband.
At St. Thomas Airport, with the couple’s willingness to return to their homes on February 11, Sakeik was detained by customs and American border protection – and they were held in the months that followed.
Then, last week, the government tried to deport Sakeik without informing it where it was sent, according to Sheikh. Sakk said that the enforcement officer of immigration and customs told her that she had been transferred to the Israeli border. After I waited at the airport for two hours, it was returned to the Prairieland detention center in Alvarado, Texas, where it was recently transferred.
And later discovered that this was just hours before Israel launched air strikes on Iran.
Now, in the face of a future that is still uncertain, his wife’s family is “afraid behind imagination,” said Sheikh, an American citizen, to ABC News.
“It is in a procedural black hole because it is not even eligible to get a bond.” “They say” when you were eight years old, you have already been given the legal procedures in court. “She does not even remember what the courtroom looks like.”
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Sakeik does not have citizenship in any country, according to her lawyer, Wald Elsaban, and her husband. She was born in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which does not allocate citizenship at birth to anyone who is not born to Saudi citizens. Her lawyer said that Sakk, whose family passes from the Gaza Strip, did not reach the Palestinian enclave, and she was unable to obtain a legal or sexual status from there.
Sheikh said that the family came to the United States 14 years ago, when she was only 8 years old.
“Fourteen years ago, my wife does not have any agency in the decision. She has no idea what is happening. All you know is that they have a refugee situation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and they have not been given any level of citizenship (and) their licenses were stripped of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”
Sheikh said that the family came to the United States with travel visas and asked for asylum.
Years later, Sakeik’s asylum case was rejected and she and her family issued deportation orders. Since the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Israel and the neighboring countries were not willing to accept Sakeik and her family, they were allowed to stay in the United States according to “the arrangement of supervision” – a classification that provides them with work permits. They were also asked to verify regularly with ice, according to sheikhs and Alasaban.
In the years it has passed, Sacic and her family were explored several paths to obtain visas or sexual in the United States, including the postponed work of childhood and care expatriates, but they did not succeed.
“There are many stories very similar to my wife’s case, as the local immigration courts accepted this, and for any reason, whether the lawyer or the legal team at that time, whether it was just the issue of the judge who was on their case on the list, they were rejected.”
“My wife has tried every way to set her position. Now that she finally became in the finish line and has a way to obtain a permanent legal accommodation, they stripped her of her.”
At the airport
The couple believed that they were prepared to spend the honeymoon. Months of their wedding ceremony, under Biden’s management, the couple contacted the ice treatment center to ask whether they could travel to the Virgin Islands, and the Sheikh said they were said to be so.
At Dallas Fort Worth Airport, in the morning of their flight in February, they also asked the representative of the Transport Security Department and airline representative, and confirms that they are able to travel to the islands with the licenses of their American driver only.
After being held at St. Thomas airport on the return flight, Sheikh said that Sakik remained handcuffed on board to Miami, where the flight stopped working. The couple was not given a reason to arrest her and informed us at first that she would be released from the reservation in Miami.
There, the spouses were separated. Sakeik was kept in Miami for three weeks before being sent to a detention center in Texas. Sakk later told her husband that she was classified by her leg and her leg is walking through the airport.
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Last week, more than three months after the reservation, the federal authorities moved to the deportation of Sakeik, according to Sheikhs and its lawyer.
On the morning of June 12, Sakeik woke up and told that she had been deported, according to her husband.
Her husband said that after many detainees were brought closer, she was transferred to a coalition Fort Worth Airport.
When she asked for travel documents or to be informed of her place, one of the officers told her that she was transferred to the Israeli border, according to sheikhs.
After waiting at the airport for two hours, Sakik, four other Palestinians and an Egyptian man were returned to the detention facilities, according to Sheikh.
“The only reason that your plane did not come is that Israel bombed Iran last night, and there was a safety protocol that was not transferred to Israel.”
Her husband and lawyer said that no written notice was made about the place where she was deported. “Her lawyer has sought to establish a removal that would keep her in the United States after the government moved to deport it last week, and on Monday it was told to remove it” not imminent. “
“She exhausted her due rights”
DHS initially told ABC News Sakeik, “She left the United States” when she traveled to the American Virgin Islands – American lands.
“The arrest of Ward Sakik was part of a targeted operation by ICE. She chose to leave the country and then was marked by (customs and border patrol) in an attempt to re -enter the United States,” Assistant Minister of Public Affairs, Tricia McLeulin, told ABC News.
When ABC News asked whether the government’s position was that traveling to the Virgin Islands, an American region, is a person who chooses to “leave the country”, the Ministry of National Security submitted an updated statement.
“She chose to fly over international waters and outside the American customs zone and then was marked by CBP in an attempt to re -enter the continental United States,” McLeulin said in another statement.
DHS said that Sakeik is illegally present in the United States.
“It has exceeded her visa and has a final matter from the immigration judge for more than a decade,” McLeulin said in the statement. “President Trump and Minister Nayyoud are committed to restoring the integrity of the visa program and ensuring that it does not abuse to allow foreigners a permanent ticket in one direction to stay in the United States.”
McLeulin said that Sakk’s appeal for the final order was rejected by the Immigration Appeals Council in 2014. The statement said, “She has exhausted her rights to legal procedures and supported by the courts.
The Ministry of National Security has not commented on Sakeik supervision and its lawyer says that it is in the United States is legal. The Ministry of National Security did not respond to the ABC News questions, which are asking about the reason for the detention of Sakeik when she presented good travel documents that she told her that TSA may suffice before her journey or why, according to Sakik, she was told that she would be sent to the Israeli border when she never lived in the region and was not a citizen of any country.
The Ministry of National Security did not respond to whether it was violating a permanent court order that prohibits the removal of migrants to third countries without an appropriate opportunity to challenge this removal.
The Trump administration has increased efforts to deport migrants. Last month, a federal judge in Boston spent that the Trump administration was deported to eight men – who claimed the administration had been convicted of violent crimes – to South Sudan “undoubtedly” “violating a previous order by not giving them sufficient legal procedures, including a” significant opportunity “to removal operations to another country.
Sheikh, who said he visited his wife 18 times in the months she was detained, and also submitted a green card request for SAKEIK in February – two days after her detention. Its application is suspended.
In reference to his wife’s family, Sheikh said: “They do not want to live like this. My wife has tried every way to control her position.”
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