"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published an X post on Tuesday announcing that it recently began deportation proceedings against "sodomite" Jair Celis Lecuona, a 29-year-old father and soccer coach in Utah who immigrated from Mexico as a child and is currently married to a woman. Agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) allegedly took Lecuona into custody right before his final interview to receive a permanent resident card."
"DHS edited a screenshot of a Salt Lake Tribune headline atop a December 9 article about Lecuona's arrest. The original headline said, "A Utah soccer coach was 'following exactly' process to get legal status - but ICE arrested him anyway." The DHS edited the headline image to say, "A Utah sodomite was abusing children but ICE arrested him anyway." "DISGUSTING AND REVOLTING!" the DHS wrote in its post."
"Though juvenile court records show that Lecuona admitted to having unlawful sexual contact with a minor when he, too, was a minor, the evidence in the charge was adjudicated by a judge, rather than verified in a court trial, Celis' lawyer Adam Crayk told The Salt Lake Tribune, adding that such state-level juvenile offenses aren't considered convictions that can support a person's detention or deportation by DHS."
Jair Celis Lecuona, a 29-year-old father and Utah soccer coach who immigrated from Mexico as a child and is married, was placed into deportation proceedings after ICE agents detained him just before his final interview for a permanent resident card. DHS posted on X and used an edited Salt Lake Tribune headline labeling Lecuona a "sodomite" and calling him a predator with "a criminal history for sodomy of a child and sexual abuse of a child." Juvenile court records show Lecuona admitted to unlawful sexual contact as a minor; that matter was adjudicated in juvenile court rather than resolved in a criminal trial. His lawyer stated that state-level juvenile adjudications are not considered convictions that justify detention or deportation by DHS.
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