Samuel Martin - Trump Family Driver in ICE Custody for 8 Months

Former Trump Family Driver Has Been in ICE Custody for 8 Months

Summary
Donald Trump's driver Zoltan Tamas was a law abiding, legal immigrant to the United States. He legally immigrated from Romania to the US in 2011, was licensed to carry a gun, paid taxes, and bought a house just like anyone else. Tamas has been kept in ICE custody for eight months due to the Trump Administration's crackdown on immigration. He was originally arrested in 2016 when officials found out that he was convicted of insurance fraud in Romania. His lawyers are arguing that he didn't do anything illegal in America, so ICE has no reason to detain him, but the crackdown on arrests means that he must be kept in detention because of his crimes in his native country. Tamas has a wife, a son, and a daughter at home that he hasn't seen once in eight months. The family had been in the US for five years and had applied for naturalization, and the wife was contacted about meeting with an immigration officer, but Tamas was not. When the couple went to the immigration office he was told that he was being detained and to hand his wife his ring, watch, phone, and belt. The article goes on to explain how his family is impacted while he is detained.

Analysis
This article was written on Friday, March 29, 2019. I knew that ICE had been cracking down on arrests but I didn't know how much they had done. This is related to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 which got rid of the immigration quotas to the US because this man might have been limited to his original entrance due to the small population of Romanians in the US in the mid 1900's. The audience is everyone in the United States because we all could be affected or know people that could be affected by immigration officials. The author, Miriam Jordan is a national immigration correspondent, so she is very well informed about the laws and changes in the US regarding immigration. The article was written to inform us about how a man that abides by all the US laws was arrested for allegedly committing crimes in his native country. This is important because we should all stay informed on how we are impacted by immigration. I find this whole situation a bit ironic because this man worked for Trump for so long and then was detained and took away from his family by the program that Trump is pushing, a man that loved Trump is now hurt by his political actions.

Source
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/us/trump-driver-chauffeur-ice-romania.html