“I am anything but Brazilian,” said Paul Fernando Schreiner, who was adopted from Brazil by a US family 3 decades ago. “I am an American.” But the US government disagrees.
NITEROI, Brazil — Paul Fernando Schreiner paces around a sparsely furnished room, swatting mosquitoes from his arms and neck as he wonders if today will be any different from all the others.
The U.S. government disagrees, underscoring the increasingly hard line the Trump administration is taking with legal residents deemed deportable. Schreiner was never naturalized a U.S. citizen but lived as an American for 30 years. He was legally adopted at age 5, had a Nebraska birth certificate, a Social Security number and paid taxes.
“He was working, getting acclimated to life after prison. Then I get a call one day that he was in prison again, this time through ICE,” said Young, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’”When agents surrounded his truck at 5 a.m. as he left for work on Oct. 23, 2017, Schreiner wasn’t totally surprised. Soon after his legal troubles began, in 2004 he was notified by ICE that there was a deportation order against him.
Schreiner said he was told that if he made a fuss, he would be put in a “burrito bag,” a type of straight jacket used for resisting arrestees.In handcuffs and accompanied by two agents, Schreiner said he was flown on a commercial flight from Phoenix to New York. However, in New York, American Airlines officials didn’t want to let Schreiner on the flight to Rio de Janeiro.
“I don’t understand how somebody who had been living in the U.S. can be abandoned like this,” said Segisfredo Silva Vanderlai, a 68-year-old pastor with whom Schreiner has been living. “He was thrown out like human garbage.”Schreiner doesn’t remember much about his early years. His parents adopted him from an orphanage in Nova Iguaçu, a Rio municipality interspersed with slums controlled by heavily armed drug traffickers and paramilitary groups.
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