Edi Umoh
A US-based Nigerian lady has challenged US President Trump to give immigrants at least a year to prepare for their exit from the country if that is his wish.
In a viral video, the elderly woman said ”she has been heartbroken by several videos of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents summarily arresting immigrants in the most inhumane way.
ICE, a component of the Department of Homeland Security responsible for enforcing immigration laws and investigating transnational crime, is accused of inhumane detention conditions, separation of families, lack of adequate medical care, and excessive force during arrests.
She further lamented that the inhumane acts of the ICE agents have led to the d3aths of some immigrants.
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The woman said that most of the jobs being done by immigrants cannot be done by US citizens.
‘‘I watched some ICE videos yesterday with the video of the nurse that they just k!lled. It is very traumatizing, the way these people are treating people.
‘‘President Trump, if you want the immigrants to leave America, tell us! Just come out and say all immigrants, we want you out, whether you are a criminal or not a criminal, because these people (ICE) don’t care about how you are. There are lots of citizens that are being traumatizing, treating them like animal and these people will be telling them ‘we are citizens’, they don’t care.
‘‘I was so sad yesterday when I saw the video that my son sent to me, a teenager! and I have a teenage son…
‘‘I felt like going to school and telling my son ‘’come, lets go and pack our belongings, we are going back to Nigeria’.
If you want us to leave America, give us time let us gather ourselves, we will all leave.
”The work all immigrants are doing, you Americans cannot do them! All your people are in nursing homes, needing help…Not of you people could take care of them and you are treating people this way? Traumatizing, k!lling people on the streets in broad day light. The way these people are treating people is not fair!
”President Trump, tell us, we will leave! We are begging. Give us time, at least one year let us gather ourselves together. Our families are back home, praying for us. Are you praying for our corpses to be brought back home?
I”CE is just behaving the way they like. There is no ICE video I have seen that they spoke to people gentle’.
President Trump, give us time…we will leave America for you.
”No problem, we will leave. At least we still have our country. Whether our country is bad or not, people are there, they are surviving. The fear in Nigeria is not this much. Enough is enough,” she said.
