McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A nun who was taken into immigration custody last month in Texas said Thursday that she went into a cold sweat as two armed men approached her while she walked to Sunday Mass in her habit, thinking about the day’s Bible readings and carrying little more than her rosary and cellphone.

“Honestly, in that moment, I did not understand what was going on, what was happening to me,” Sister Leticia Ugboaja said at a news conference at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in McAllen, where she spoke out for the first time since U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested her on June 28.

Ugboaja’s attorney says she has for years been granted protection from removal to her native Nigeria because she was likely to face torture there.

Ugboaja, 56, was released several hours after being detained while on her way to church near the U.S.-Mexico border. Parish officials’ posting about her on social media brought attention to her case, and Congress members ultimately intervened on her behalf. President Donald Trump made mass deportations a central promise of his second administration, with his immigration crackdown leading to unusually aggressive tactics that have faced scrutiny.

Ugboaja, who has a check-in appointment with ICE on Tuesday, said she wanted to speak out to help others, and pleaded for people to have the chance to be heard before being taken into custody.

“There are many others in this same situation, people who have been given some form of protection under our laws, who have followed every rule asked of them, and who still live with uncertainty,” Ugboaja said.

While she’s grateful to those who helped her, she said, that “does not mean I can stay quiet about what happened to me, or about what is still happening to others.”

Her attorney, Carlos M. Garcia, sat next to Ugboaja at the news conference and provided details about her immigration case. He said that in 2019 an immigration judge denied her application for asylum but granted her protection from removal to Nigeria because she likely would be tortured there. Garcia said Ugboaja, who is a nurse, has complied with everything required of her and had permission to work in the U.S.

When ICE detained Ugboaja in June, she wasn’t given much explanation as to why she was taken into custody, her attorney said. But the U.S. planned to remove her to a third country, he added.

The Trump administration’s third-country removal policy has been criticized by lawyers and human rights groups and has faced legal challenges. The Department of Homeland Security has said the agreements allow people seeking asylum in the U.S. to pursue protection in the other country, and that the agreements are used to try to address large backlogs in immigration courts.

DHS and ICE did not respond to a request to comment on Ugboaja’s case on Thursday and did not respond to requests for comment after her detention in June.

Ugboaja is part of the Daughters of Mary Mother of Mercy and volunteered as an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion at Our Lady of Sorrows Church, a spokesperson for the Diocese of Brownsville has said. Ugboaja is also a registered nurse at South Texas Health System and worked previously for 10 years as a certified nursing assistant in Edinburg, the spokesperson said.

Ugboaja said that on the day she was taken into custody, she begged the officers to let her attend Mass and receive Holy Communion, but was told she could not.

"For me, a nun, not to go to Mass on Sunday, not to receive Communion, it was very, very heartbreaking for me,” she said.

>>1525310
If she doesn't get deported she should be forced to have her last name changed to something normal.

>>1525313
>The Trump administration’s third-country removal policy has been criticized by lawyers and human rights groups and has faced legal challenges.
Why? They can't go back to their home country and they're not wanted here. Why wouldn't anyone want to go to a third country - especially since we're such a racist, fascist, dictatorship in the US? Why the legal challenges?

>>1525314
you deserve to be raped like Nash during the summer of 92

>>1525311
“Mc” makes sense as a surname, but as a placename?! How can a place be from somewhere else?!?

>>1525310
I'm not sure who's side to take here
ICE is arresting Nuns
Anti ICE people are committing terrorist attacks against ICE facilities.

>>1525310
Good, Exile/deport as needed.

Y'know I really would like it if someone on the left could answer my earlier question. Why not send them to a third country? Can't deport them back where they came from, so why not send them to Canada? Or any of the western European nations that are accepting refugees? Or one of the Caribbean islands?

That seems like a win for both sides.

Look at all those shills, god damn. I guess that’s what you’ve gotta do when you’re side’s being this comically evil.

>>1525336
The third countries in question are warzones and dictatorships and sending them there involves delivering them directly to foreign prisons known for excessive human rights violations.

>>1525345
So send them to one of the dozens of western nations taking refugees in.

>>1525336
The cruelty is the point.

>>1525349
Indeed. Enforcing the law is immoral and a form of hate.

>>1525397
Enforcing it in this way? Yes, extremely.

>>1525403
We should deport JD Vance’s wife - the Nun can come later.

>>1525349
You could say the same thing about how Joe Biden enforced rules during the COVID lockdowns
The cruelty was the point

>>1525421
*Taps the post*
https://files.catbox.moe/1nmmn6.jpg
Conservatives sure love to use this Russian tactic.

>>1525421
You could, but you’d be wrong.

>>1525425
I'm pretty sure this is the tactic used by the liggeral cultists given everything you believe is a lie or a halftruth.

>>1525430
>ESL shill accusing others what he's guilty of.
Classic.

>>1525430
Projection.

>>1525432
Nope. We can test this:
How was Biden's inflation?
Did Trump deport more people?
Do illegals enrich the economy?

>>1525434
See
>>1525425

>>1525434
>How was Biden's inflation?
Literally called the envy of the world post pandemic.
>Did trump deport more people?
How many US citizens did Biden deport. What's that? 0? How many did his gestapo kill? What? 0?
>Do undocumented workers enrich the economy?
Yes, they're a negative tax burden, they pay taxes on wages and aren't able to claim tax returns or social services those taxes pay for.

My turn. Is there literally any issue conservatives can argue without a strawman?
>Easy. No. We love lying to ourselves so we don't have to confront what impotent little faggots we are.

>>1525495
>Literally called the envy of the world post pandemic.
Yes in an editorial and the numbers after the terror were pretty decent, no doubt.
The problem is that the Biden stimulus package caused hyper inflation combined with supply chain EOs. The cumulative inflation over Biden's term was 20% due to his mismanagement of COVID (and while we'ere at it, 2021 was COVID's deadliest year).
>How many US citizens did Biden deport. What's that? 0? How many did his gestapo kill? What? 0?
Actually more than 70. And he deported more people than Trump in his first term because he was able to use Title 42 which allowed him to deport without due process.
Additionally, Obama built the cages and started the family separations.
>Yes, they're a negative tax burden, they pay taxes on wages and aren't able to claim tax returns or social services those taxes pay for.
Where does this information come from?
NY protested moving these economic enrichment being moved to their state. Mexico has issues with the people the US deports there.
So how can this be true?
Additionally illegal immigrants are eligible for Emergency Medicaid, and WIC.

And I know this doesn't change any minds, but really you need to look into every claim made in a political context.
For instance, if anyone remembers the sad case of the Liz Truss Minibudget, the papers were claiming it was causing economic distress. However, economic papers revealed it was actually the real owners of UK, Blackrock, fucking up the Gilt market because they didn't want the tax cut to go through.

>>1525425
I don't find being presented the other side as "immediately exhausting" I think it's being fair
I have watched court trials I don't get exhausted the second I am being presented 2 sides

>>1525421
They saved your fucking life, asshole.

>>1525526
No they didn't. There was no basis in reality for mass COVID lockdowns. The mortality rate for anyone under 60 was negligible to the point it was nearly impossible to die from COVID unless you had an existing condition. And even that was rare.
Likewise the mortality rate of even the unvaccinated under 60 population was negligible.
There was no point in attempting to vaccinate everyone. However, it's quite obvious that just like with the flu shot, anyone with an existing condition or who is over 50 should receive one.
Few lives may have been saved, but the general panic instilled in the population was ridiculous propaganda.

>>1525310
Good. Get the fuck out of my country or die. It really isn't that hard of a concept. And stop posing for Nuns Go Wild in Playboy.

>>1525531
>She's a fake Christian
Indeed. Exploiting workers is one of the sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance.
The only reason immigrants are in this country is to lower wages.
Therefore it's every Catholic's duty to oppose immigration until wages improve.

>>1525319
It was someone's surname. A lot of towns in the American West are just named for the first settler or major landowner there

>>1525537
Red text say you're not allowed to judge. If you call someone a fake Christian, by the standards of your religion, you're directly disobeying Him and assuming His role. You are the fake christian, you are going to burn in hellfire.

Luckily I'm an atheist so I can judge the hell out of your stupid inbred ass.

Now where in the bible is exploiting workers a sin? It tells slaves to obey their masters and christians to pay taxes and submit to earthly government, is it somewhere between those you fucking illiterate dipshit?

>>1525526
Trump saved your life with operation warp speed making the vaccine
Did you ever thank Donald Trump for the COVID vaccine? Thank Donald Trump right now.

>>1525526
>They saved your fucking life, asshole.
Yeah because my life was in danger from a virus with a 99.99% survivability rate. Fucking retard.

>>1525526
They let Antifags gather in large crowds to riot and arson the year away, but I couldn't have more than 6 people in my home for Thanksgiving under Los Angeles mandates. Thanks Joe Biden and thanks a lot Newsom!

>>1525570
>James 5:4
>Listen! The wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.
https://bible.oremus.org/?passage=James%205:4&version=nrsv
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sins_that_cry_to_Heaven_for_Vengeance

>>1525570
>Red text say you're not allowed to judge. If you call someone a fake Christian, by the standards of your religion, you're directly disobeying Him and assuming His role.

Maybe you should read what it actually says instead of just parroting.

Matthew 7:1-5
>“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

TLDR: Don't judge is a warning against hypocrisy, to reflect on ones actions before others. Its not a condemation on the entire concept of looking at something and going "thats wrong".

>>1525777
>I'm a faggot, and I'm going to cherry pick a verse. Shocking.

That's not "what it actually says," that's not the fucking verse I was referring to you absolute dipshit, there are a number of verses where the concept of judging your fellow christians is expressly condemned, I don't have to just look for the one retarded line that supports what I'm saying like you do.

I'm not going to give you a verse, because the bible isn't meant to be read line-by-line out of context by illiterate imbeciles.

Read Romans Chapter 14. Yes, the whole fucking chapter, dumbass. Bet it's more than you've read all summer. Be it's the most you've struggled with a project since you read the back of a fucking cereal box, you fucking hypocritical dunce.

>>1525779
14 Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. 2 One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3 The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them. 4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To their own master, servants stand or fall. And they will stand, for the Lord is able to make them stand.

5 One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind. 6 Whoever regards one day as special does so to the Lord. Whoever eats meat does so to the Lord, for they give thanks to God; and whoever abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7 For none of us lives for ourselves alone, and none of us dies for ourselves alone. 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. 9 For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

10 You, then, why do you judge your brother or sister[a]? Or why do you treat them with contempt? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. 11 It is written:

“‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will acknowledge God.’”[b]

12 So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God.

13 Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister.

>>1525570
>Red text say you're not allowed to judge.
God was responsible for breaking apart the tower of babel. He was the ultimate ICE agent.