Pro-Trump New Hampshire dad is stuck in Canada after visit. Green card holder's lived in US since he was 3
Chris Landry, who has been a legal U.S. resident since 1981 when he was three-years-old, was stopped at the border in Holton, Maine, despite having a green card.
'They pulled me aside and started questioning me about my past convictions in New Hampshire,' he told NBC News, speaking from New Brunswick. 'They denied me re entry and said, you know, don't come back or we will detain you.'
Landry, who was born in Canada, faced of marijuana possession and driving with a suspended license in 2004 and 2007.
He was given a suspended sentence and paid a fine, and has had no criminal record since.
'I never expected that I wouldn't be able to go back home,' he told WMUR. 'It was scary. I felt like I was being treated like a criminal.'
'The only way for me to get back in was to see a immigration judge,' he told NBC, adding that his future is now 'uncertain' and he worries he may have to spend the rest of his life in Canada.
Landry was traveling with three of his children, who are all American citizens, when he was stopped. They will reportedly return to the U.S. in the coming days.
Though he was unable to vote in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Landry said he was a fan of Donald Trump. However he says his attitude towards the administration and its policies have now changed.
'I was definitely all for Make America Great Again and having a strong unified country and a bright future for my five American children, but now I feel differently,' he said.
In a statement, USCBP said: 'Possessing a green card is a privilege, not a right, and under our nation's laws, our government has the authority to revoke a green card if our laws are broken and abused.
'Lawful permanent residents presenting at a U.S. port of entry with previous criminal convictions, may be subject to mandatory detention and/ or may be asked to provide additional documentation to be set up for an immigration hearing.'
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
21 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Trump administration defends immigration tactics after California worker death
By Leah Douglas and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Federal officials on Sunday defended President Donald Trump's escalating campaign to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally, including a California farm raid that left one worker dead, and said the administration would appeal a ruling to halt some of its more aggressive tactics. Trump has vowed to deport millions of people in the country illegally and has executed raids at work sites including farms that were largely exempted from enforcement during his first term. The administration has faced dozens of lawsuits across the country for its tactics. Department of Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem and Trump's border czar Tom Homan said on Sunday that the administration would appeal a federal judge's Friday ruling that blocked the administration from detaining immigrants based solely on racial profiling and denying detained people the right to speak with a lawyer. In interviews with Fox News and CNN, Noem criticized the judge, an appointee of Democratic former President Joe Biden, and denied that the administration had used the tactics described in the lawsuit. "We will appeal, and we will win," she said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday." Homan said on CNN's "State of the Union" that physical characteristics could be one factor among multiple that would establish a reasonable suspicion that a person lacked legal immigration status, allowing federal officers to stop someone. During a chaotic raid and resulting protests on Thursday at two sites of a cannabis farm in Southern California, 319 people in the U.S. illegally were detained and federal officers encountered 14 migrant minors, Noem said on NBC News' "Meet the Press." Workers were injured during the raid and one later died from his injuries, according to the United Farm Workers. Homan told CNN that the farmworker's death was tragic but that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were doing their jobs and executing criminal search warrants. "It's always unfortunate when there's deaths," he said. U.S. Senator Alex Padilla said on CNN that federal agents are using racial profiling to arrest people. Padilla, a California Democrat and the son of Mexican immigrants, was forcibly removed from a Noem press conference in Los Angeles in June and handcuffed after trying to ask a question. Padilla said he had spoken with the UFW about the farmworker who died in the ICE raid. He said a steep arrest quota imposed by the Trump administration in late May had led to more aggressive and dangerous enforcement. "It's causing ICE to get more aggressive, more cruel, more extreme, and these are the results," Padilla said. "It's people dying."
Yahoo
26 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Bride run over by golf cart sues B.C.'s Furry Creek Golf Course
A woman who planned a fairy tale wedding at one of B.C.'s most-scenic golf courses ended up injured when she was ejected from a golf cart, dragged by her wedding dress and run over. Natasha Quigley, who lives in the U.K., had travelled to B.C. for the Aug. 1 wedding last year at Furry Creek Golf Course. The ceremony was scheduled outdoors with views of Howe Sound, mountains and towering cedars, according to the invite on The plan was upended sometime between the ceremony and the reception, according to her Vancouver lawyer, Manjot Hallen, who said he wouldn't discuss details because the case is before the courts. 'She was indeed injured,' said Hallen. According to the lawsuit filed in B.C. Supreme Court, Quigley was a passenger on a golf cart when the driver 'struck a bump at high speed, causing Mrs. Quigley's dress to fall and become entangled' in a wheel, according to the lawsuit filed in B.C. Supreme Court, She was 'ejected from the golf cart while it was in motion, then dragged and run over by it,' it said. Quigley was left with cuts and scrapes and injuries to almost every part of her body, including her head, neck and back, legs, hips, feet and left shoulder/rotator cuff, according to the lawsuit. She also suffered depression and anxiety, it said. The lawsuit says her injuries 'continue to cause the plaintiff pain, suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, loss of housekeeping capacity, permanent physical disability, loss of physical, mental and emotional health and loss of earnings' past and future, and she seeks an undisclosed amount of damages. The main defendant is Fine Peace Furry Creek Golf Ltd. Partnership. The course disputed the driver was speeding or reckless while driving the couple, the best man, the maid of honour and a photographer to the 14th hole by the ocean for photos, said deputy general manager Patrick Guan. 'It was an accident and nobody wanted it to happen,' he said, saying the driver would have been slowing down for the curve when it happened. The cart didn't tip and no one else was injured, he said. He said the accident was caused by the train of her dress getting entangled in the rear wheel and agreed she was dragged and driven over by the cart. He said it was just over her toe and the driver stopped when he became aware of what happened. Quigley was offered first aid and asked if she wanted staff to call 911 but she declined, he said, adding she was responsible for holding her own train. After the course received a letter from Quigley asking for compensation for her dress and requesting some rental costs be waived, staff reviewed video and it showed her dancing, drinking and 'having fun' from 7 p.m. to past midnight, he said. Guan said the company's lawyer, after reviewing the internal accident report, declined compensation. The claim says under B.C.'s Occupiers Act, owners have a duty to ensure the public's safety and the 'incident was caused or contributed to by the negligence' by them or their employees. That includes 'failing to take reasonable care to ensure that the plaintiff would be safe while riding the golf cart' and failing to remedy hazards or warn guests of the hazards. The lawsuit said the owners are liable for the actions of its employees, alleging the driver was negligent by driving without due care or recklessly, by speeding or by failing to take steps to avoid the incident, it said. None of the allegations have been proven in court. Furry Creek, 40 minutes north of Vancouver on the way to Whistler, served as backdrop for the famously funny scene in the original 1996 Happy Gilmour movie, where Adam Sandler's character has a protracted fist fight with Bob Barker, who played himself. Judge slams photographer for botching wedding job, awards couple $22,000 Driver in fatal West Vancouver wedding crash fined $2,000
The Hill
an hour ago
- The Hill
Senate Republican: ‘America is safer with Pam Bondi as attorney general'
Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) on Sunday said he has confidence in Attorney General Pam Bondi despite reports that she is feuding with FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino over her handling of the case related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. 'I do,' Barrasso said, when asked in an interview on NBC News's 'Meet the Press' whether he has confidence in Bondi. 'We ran to make this country safer and more prosperous. Pam Bondi and her team are getting hardened criminals off the streets,' he continued. 'America is safer with Pam Bondi as attorney general.' Barrasso said, 'I do,' when moderator Kristen Welker followed up to ask if he has confidence in Patel. The interview comes after President Trump reiterated his confidence in Bondi on Saturday amid fierce backlash from segments of his base over her handling of the Epstein files. The Justice Department released a memo on Monday concluding there was no evidence Epstein kept a 'client list,' nor that the convicted sex offender sought to blackmail powerful figures implicated in his crimes. The memo also found no evidence suggesting foul play involved in Epstein's death, which had previously been ruled a suicide. Those revelations contradict conspiracy theories pushed by several right-wing media personalities and internet influencers; many of whom fumed Monday over the memo and alleged a cover-up was taking place.
