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Can't make this stuff up.



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Posts: 7353 | Location: Between the Moon and New York City. | Registered: November 27, 2011Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Who cares about his citizenship? He should be deported just for being a rapper.


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Posts: 21103 | Location: Montana | Registered: November 01, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Who cares about his citizenship? He should be SHOT just for being a rapper.


Fixed it for ya
 
Posts: 1801 | Location: Possum Kingdom, TX | Registered: April 11, 2005Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Originally posted by maximus_flavius:
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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Who cares about his citizenship? He will be eventually SHOT by another rapper .


Fixed it for ya
 
Posts: 23477 | Location: Houston, TX | Registered: June 11, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Best thing about buying a new CD... you get to throw away the (w)rapper.



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Posts: 1886 | Location: Altona Beach | Registered: February 20, 2012Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Should he not be up on some tax evasion charges? How was he getting paid for his work in the US while here illegally? He should owe hundreds of thousands if not millions in taxes?


 
Posts: 5499 | Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Registered: February 27, 2001Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Periodically since 2016 election cycle, I get swarmed with hordes of the various DNC.org style groups. Major annoyance and of course no way to tell how/where they got my addy.

Just 2 days ago a group send me link to 'sign petition' to free this guy from 'the total injustice he is facing'.

Along with the general wild eye extremist.dnc.groups I also continue to get spam from the fed.State Senators (D) and a number of local state.senators. Most of them are thanking me for various petitions or support I never gave, never signed up for, and have advised numerous times they are mistaken.


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Posts: 9882 | Location: sunny Orygun | Registered: September 27, 2009Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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good riddance



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Posts: 54149 | Location: Tucson Arizona | Registered: January 16, 2002Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Shayaa Bin Abraham-Joseph aka 21 Savage is a citizen of the U.K. who came to the U.S. with his parents at age 13 in 2005. His visa expired a year later and he has been in the U.S. illegally since.

In 2014 he was convicted of a felony drug offense. The “21” is a reference to the gang he was a member of in the Atlanta neighborhood where he grew up since coming to the states.

21 Savage reportedly turned to music after he was shot 6 times on his 21st birthday in 2013. He claims he almost died from blood loss after one of the bullets struck his neck, leaving him with lingering nerve damage.

Given he lied about his prior claims of being born and raised in Atlanta it’s not clear if he was really shot in 2013, but apparently his attorney is trying to fight his deportation by applying for a “U” visa which is for victims of violent crimes who are cooperating with law enforcment as witnesses. Even if he was shot, I would be surprised if he cooperated as a witness at the time.

As a gang member and convicted felon he has an uphill battle fighting deportation, but $4,000,000 buys lots of attorneys.

The real question is should he fight it ? After all, if John Lennon hadn’t fought his deportation to the U.K. in the 1970s he would likely be alive today.
 
Posts: 528 | Location: Texas | Registered: March 25, 2013Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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He's now claiming to be a dreamer!

https://news.yahoo.com/21-sava...-apos-031002909.html

21 Savage's Lawyers Say He's a Dreamer and Address If Rapper Was Targeted for Being Critical of ICE

by Robyn Merrett
February 5, 2019

21 Savage‘s legal team is firing back at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detention of the rapper while also addressing the fan speculation that he was targeted due to a recent anti-ICE rap.

“Many have speculated as to possible ulterior motives for his arrest and detention, including that he released music five days prior to his arrest by ICE, which included new lyrics condemning the behavior of immigration officials for their detention of children at the border,” the 26-year-old rapper’s legal team alleged in a statement obtained by PEOPLE.

In the song “A Lot” from his album I Am > I Was, 21 Savage, born She’yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph raps “Been through some things so I can’t imagine my kids stuck at the border/ Flint still need water/ People was innocent, couldn’t get lawyers.”

21 Savage was taken into custody on Sunday by ICE, which claims he overstayed his 12-month 2005 visa.

The statement released by 21 Savage’s legal team Tuesday addressed those claims as well as confirming the rapper was, in fact, born in Britain.

“Mr. Abraham-Joseph was born in the United Kingdom. Mr. Abraham-Joseph arrived legally in the United States at the age of 7,” the statement explained.

“He remained in the United States until 2005, when he departed for approximately one month to visit the United Kingdom. He returned to the United States under a valid H-4 visa on July 22, 2005.”

An H-4 visa is issued to immediate family members, spouses or children under the age of 21.

“Mr. Abraham-Joseph has been continuously physically present in the United States for almost 20 years, except for a brief visit abroad. Unfortunately, in 2006 Mr. Abraham-Joseph’s legal status expired through no fault of his own.”

“Mr. Abraham-Joseph, like almost two million of his immigrant child peers, was left without immigration status as a young child with no way to fix his immigration status.”

His lawyers argued that he should be considered a Dreamer, the name used to describe children who were brought to this country illegally by their parents and were offered visas under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy.


His legal team went on to argue 21 Savage “has no criminal convictions or charges under state or federal law and is free to seek relief from removal in immigration court.”

“ICE provided incorrect information to the press when it claimed he had a criminal conviction.”

An ICE spokesman previously said 21 Savage “was convicted on felony drug charges in October 2014 in Fulton County, Georgia,” in a statement to Fox 5 Atlanta.

“Mr. Abraham-Joseph has three US Citizen children, a lawful permanent resident mother and four siblings that are either US Citizens or lawful permanent residents. He has exceptionally strong ties in the United States, having lived here since he was in the first grade. Because of his long residence in the United States and his immediate relatives, Mr. Abraham-Joseph is eligible to seek Cancellation of Removal from an Immigration Judge,” 21 Savage’s lawyers stated.

The statement also says that 21 Savage was “placed into deportation proceedings AFTER his arrest, he was not in deportation proceedings prior to this detention by ICE.”

At this time, 21 Savage is being held without bond. However, “by statute, bond should be granted by ICE when there is no flight risk or a danger to the community,” according to his lawyers.

21 Savage’s legal team says the rapper is not a flight risk or a “danger to the community.”

“ICE has the ability to set bond and conditions of release on cases exactly like this. ICE routinely grants bond to individuals in Mr. Abraham-Joseph’s circumstances, specifically individuals who have overstayed a prior valid visa and have relief from deportation under federal law.”

“Mr. Abraham-Joseph has a pending U visa with the USCIS,” a U Visa is one provided to victims of crime.

“The U visa was filed as a result of being the victim of a deadly shooting in 2013. That visa was filed in 2017 and remains pending. When granted, the U visa will afford him lawful status in the United States. Generally, ICE has recognized a pending facially valid U visa as a basis to delay removal proceedings and release individuals from custody.”

“We are unaware of why ICE apparently targeted Mr. Abraham-Joseph, but we will do everything possible to legally seek his release and pursue his available relief in immigration court.”

Also on Tuesday, 21 Savage’s manager gave an update on how the rapper is doing on Twitter.

“Just got off phone wit Savage… he is in lockdown for 23hrs of the day no tv or any communications besides our 10 min phone calls… everything I’ve told him that has happening made him happy & makes this time fly by thank y’all for the support.”
 
Posts: 16113 | Location: Eastern Iowa | Registered: May 21, 2000Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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My heart bleeds for this poor young man and his predicament.

(tac, you are bad liar......)

Please don't send him back here.

We have enough of his bruh's employed slicing the crap out of each other on a near-daily basis, let alone spouting their inane drivel, that in their minds, at least, masquerades as art.
 
Posts: 11536 | Location: UK, OR, ONT | Registered: July 10, 2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I hope this is a movement. Any chance of deporting all rappers?
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