"We tried to do everything the right way that you're supposed to do, so I'm just begging, just let us at least finish that,"
"I just want him home. I want him safe. Seamus is a good man. He doesn't deserve what is going on,"
"It's like a modern day concentration camp. We've got no human rights down here,"
"People are starving, people are sick, people are tired ... It's just hell down here. Hell on earth... I wouldn't wish it on any human being at all."
Seamus Culleton, an Irish man who overstayed a 90-day visa in 2009, has lived in the Boston area for nearly two decades and married U.S. citizen Tiffany Smith. Culleton owns a small plastering business, had work authorization, and maintained a pending green card application. Federal immigration agents arrested him Sept. 9 at a Home Depot in Saugus after running his license plate. Culleton has no criminal record. He spent five months at the ERO East Montana ICE Detention Camp in El Paso and described poor sanitation, rampant sickness, severe weight loss, jaundice, and very limited sunlight. DHS denied the claims.
Read at Boston.com
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