(KTLA)-a man born of an active member of the United States of the military at an army basis in Germany in 1986, before he came to the United States as a child, he was deported last week to Jamaica, a country where he had never been, according to a report by the Austine Chronicle.
Jermine Thomas, whose dad, born of Jamaica, became a US citizen during his 18-year military career, spent much of his early life, moving from base to base with his father and mother, the last Kenya citizen at birth.
At 11, after his parents’ divorce and his mother’s second marriage with another soldier, he went to live with his father, who has since retired in Florida. Unfortunately, his father died in 2010 from kidney failure shortly after Thomas arrived.
Much of his life afterwards, the chronicle reports, was spent in Texas, homeless and prison.
It is not clear exactly when Thomas was first ordered to leave the country, but the 2015 court records show a case that went to the Supreme Court, in which the US Department of Justice claims that he is not a citizen simply because he was born at the US Army in Germany.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the DOJ, asserting the decision of the US Appellate Court and rejected Thomas’s request to review the deportment order, saying that “his father did not meet the requirement for the physical presence of the Statute in force during the birth of Thomas.”
The court also noted Thomas’s previous criminal sentences, one for domestic violence and two “moral crimes.”
A common view of Kingston, the capital of Jamaica. Kingston is located on the southeast coast of Jamaica and is the center of government and trade. (Alessandro Abbonizio/AFP via Getty Images)
Without us, German or Jamaicannia, Thomas was not in citizenship, although he stayed in the United States, most recently living in Kilin, a city about an hour north of Austin.
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He told the chronicle that deportation in Jamaica began with expulsion from his apartment.
As he moved his belongings from the apartment, he was arrested by local police on suspicion of penetration, a violation in Texas.
Said by a lawyer appointed to the court that she would probably stay in prison for a better part of a year while waiting for a lawsuit, Thomas, who had lost his job while in blocking, signed a release agreement with certain conditions, but instead of being released from prison in Bell, he was transferred to the immigration.
Now in Kingston, he told the chronicle that he lives in a hotel, although he is not sure who pays for it, the US or Jamaica government and does not know how long he can stay there.
Uncertain how to find a job or if he is even allowed, Thomas added that he was not sure if he was legal at all in the country.
“If you are in the US Army and the army is unfolding somewhere and you need to have your child there, and your child makes a mistake after you pass, and you put your life on the line for this country, you will be well with them, just kicking your child from the country?” said Thomas in a phone call with the output reporter.
Neither ICE nor the Ministry of Homeland Security responded to the request of the chronicle for comment.
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