In another diversity-is-strength report this morning, we learn that a Minneapolis man who plead guilty to throwing acid at his old girlfriend could still be deported. In the meantime he will continue counseling for mental health problems at taxpayer expense. This 29-year-old Ethiopian is either a former refugee or asylee (the mainstream media rarely gives us immigration information, I suspect because it doesn’t fit their template). Hat tip: Cliff
From the Minneapolis Star Tribune (boy these Minneapolis reporters are busy with immigrant conflict stories):
A Minneapolis man who threw battery acid in his ex-girlfriend’s face last year won’t spend time behind bars if he remains law-abiding.
Before getting a stayed, 15-month prison sentence Wednesday, Jarso Yohannes Adem, 29, tried to withdraw his guilty plea to second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, a felony.
He claimed he was not aware his conviction could cause him to be deported back to Ethiopia. The Minnesota Court of Appeals this week ordered that a man could withdraw his plea to simple robbery because he was not told of deportation risks.
Hennepin County District Judge Susan Robiner refused Adem’s request, saying he’d made an informed decision to plead guilty in February.
Adem was charged last September for the attack on Semira Mohammed, 31, of St. Louis Park. Charges say he approached her on the street near her home and, after she refused to talk to him, splashed battery acid on her from a bottle. She suffered burns to her face, neck and hand but was not permanently disfigured. She was not present in court.
Adem’s attorney, Mark Miller, said that although his client was informed of the law regarding his immigrant status, mental health issues including depression inhibited him from making a fully informed plea. Miller said his client’s reasoning is like that of a teenager.
“Mr. Adem seems to never quite grasp exactly what is going on,” Miller said.
Isn’t diversity beautiful!
Through an interpreter, Adem expressed no remorse for the crime, saying Mohammed repeatedly lied to him.
Adem must continue to receive mental health treatment and remain law-abiding for three years to avoid prison. He also must stay away from Mohammed.
So, how is a guy like this ever going to function in a civilized society? I think I like that recommendation I made in my earlier diversity-is-strength alert this morning (about Somali drug traffickers)—his care should come out of the Refugee contractors’ budgets! If he is deported, his airfare home to Africa should come out of their hides too (which is still the taxpayers’ hide but at least we would know which federal agency and NGO were responsible for his presence among us).