See, this bugs me the most. I wonder how this whole thing went down. Did he say he was from the Dominican Republic? Did he finally gave in and said he was undocumented?

I mean when you think about it ICE has no record of people who EWI and that's why CIR is such an important thing. There is no such thing as a citizen's database based on people's names (if there was then the ACLU would be complaining). You can find someone based on their SS# but not based on names alone, because there are multiple John Smiths and so on. And since the guy didn't know he was a USC i don't even think he knew he had a SS#.

Guys, think about it like this. You are driving a car and you do have a DL, but you do not know you have a DL(just as ridiculous as this case) and you get pulled over for speeding. The cop will obviously ask you for your DL and give you a ticket or put you in jail, if you say you don't have one. He isn't going to say "well, i think this guy has a DL but just doesn't know about it. Sure I'll let him slide". Honestly, I don't really understand why everyone here is crucifying ICE based on this case, there are other better examples of their incompetency and ironically in this case it doesn't really seem like they are the ones to blame.

It sucks that he was put in jail for 5 years but he easily could have avoided it. I hate it when people just say "Well, I didn't know" and then want some sort of recompensation, especially when it comes to something as important as their legal status in the US.