After being adopted when he was 5 years old, Paul Fernando Schreiner lived in America for 30 years before being deported to Brazil. By (at)peterprengaman
In this April 11, 2019, photo, Paul Fernando Schreiner, right, sits next to Segisfredo Silva Vanderlai, a pastor who has been lodging Schreiner since a few weeks after his arrival, in Niteroi, Brazil. After being adopted by an American family and living in the U.S. for more than 30 years, Schreiner was deported to Brazil. His removal illustrates the increasingly hard line the Trump administration is taking with legal immigrants that are deportable because of criminal records.
“I am anything but Brazilian,” said Schreiner, who was adopted from Brazil by a U.S. family three decades ago. “I am an American.” “He shouldn’t have to suffer a second time,” his mother, Rosanna Schreiner, said through tears from her home outside Seward, Nebraska. After spending nearly eight years in prison in Nebraska, Schreiner got his life together. He moved to Arizona, started pool-cleaning and carpenter businesses and developed a close relationship with Jason Young, a pastor at Heritage Baptist Church in Goodyear, a Phoenix suburb.
Weeks turned into eight months in an immigration detention facility in Florence, Arizona. According to Schreiner and his father, Roger Schreiner, Brazilian consular officials in Los Angeles, which has jurisdiction over Arizona, told him that he could refuse to get on a plane.“Brazil is a corrupt government and will let you in,” Schreiner said an ICE agent told him about the fact that he didn’t have a passport.
The Brazilian federal police did not respond to multiple requests from The Associated Press seeking comment. In a statement, Brazil’s foreign ministry said the consulate in Los Angeles was “instructed to formally confirm, before U.S. authorities, the Brazilian nationality of Mr. Schreiner, who had a final deportation order against him.”
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