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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/an-illinois-priest-living-legally-in-the-us-for-14-years-is-being-deported-—-over-a-single-vote-he-shouldn’t-have-cast/ar-AAAzlc0?ocid=ientp
Rev. David Boase has been a priest at two Episcopal churches for the past 14 years in Alton, a southern Illinois river town on the banks of the Mississippi, and when he arrived from England in 2004, he said he knew fairly quickly that he never intended to leave. It was, “as we say about priestly work,” his calling.
“It was a heartfelt sense of belonging, and that was a large part of the impetus of my seeking citizenship,” Boase, 69, told The Washington Post. “I just wanted to belong in the fullest possible way here in America, as a responsible citizen.”
But that’s all scheduled to come crashing down Friday, when Boase, a legal permanent resident, expects to be removed from the country by an immigration judge because of a violation 12 years ago.
At issue? A single vote cast in 2006. When a friend informed him it was illegal, Boase said, “I never voted again.”
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So the spin here is that how horrible it is that immigration policies deport a law abiding and good man over a small mistake. The Priest admitted to voting back in 2006 during his paperwork to become a US Citizen.
My takeaway, is that clearly we do indeed have a vulnerability to illegal voting if this guy was able to register to vote and actually vote without being stopped at all. Heck, it was only caught because he was honest on a questionnaire over a decade later.
Rev. David Boase has been a priest at two Episcopal churches for the past 14 years in Alton, a southern Illinois river town on the banks of the Mississippi, and when he arrived from England in 2004, he said he knew fairly quickly that he never intended to leave. It was, “as we say about priestly work,” his calling.
“It was a heartfelt sense of belonging, and that was a large part of the impetus of my seeking citizenship,” Boase, 69, told The Washington Post. “I just wanted to belong in the fullest possible way here in America, as a responsible citizen.”
But that’s all scheduled to come crashing down Friday, when Boase, a legal permanent resident, expects to be removed from the country by an immigration judge because of a violation 12 years ago.
At issue? A single vote cast in 2006. When a friend informed him it was illegal, Boase said, “I never voted again.”
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So the spin here is that how horrible it is that immigration policies deport a law abiding and good man over a small mistake. The Priest admitted to voting back in 2006 during his paperwork to become a US Citizen.
My takeaway, is that clearly we do indeed have a vulnerability to illegal voting if this guy was able to register to vote and actually vote without being stopped at all. Heck, it was only caught because he was honest on a questionnaire over a decade later.
