Slick Rick Facing Deportation AGAIN
Forgot to post this earlier.. does the Department of Homeland Security seriously have nothing better to do?
Rapper Slick Rick Facing Deportation Again
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British-born rapper Slick Rick is fighting the U.S. government's efforts to have him deported again, according to his legal representatives. In recent years, the rapper (real name: Ricky Walters) has been twice allowed by the courts to stay in the country after the Immigration and Naturalization Service ordered him deported.
But according to his legal team, the Department of Homeland Security has renewed Rick's case and is attempting to move it to Florida's 11th Circuit Court in Miami, where he was bizarrely arrested in 2002 for "deporting himself" and "illegally re-entering the country" after performing on a Caribbean cruise ship...
Posted by jsmooth995 at October 20, 2006 12:58 AM
It's great that Slick Rick (who I adoringly have listened to since 7th grade) can bring this issue into the limelight, unfortunate it takes a star like him to get attention - the U.S. has immigration laws that separate families (some "family values" huh?)... Deports 230,000 immigrants a year - most have committed no crime or very petty crimes. My organization, “Breakthrough,� is creating a video game about the issue of detention and deportation of immigrants. We create pop-culture educational tools to raise awareness about human rights, and we'd love if slick rick can do the voice-over for the video!!!... CAN ANYONE THINK OF HOW TO GET HIM TO DO THIS? how do i get a hold of him?
