Dennis Orcullo banned from USA for five years

The problems you mentioned do exist, but the biggest problem is Catch and Release. When one is not punished for the crime they commit, they have no deterrent from doing it again and again and again and again.


Have a friend who works for Border Patrol out of Ajo, AZ. He has 14 plus years of service.

He says everyday is a challenge to do his job, rules & regulations constantly change in.

Being diplomatic moral was high under POTUS #45.

He makes 90-100k with OT.
 
What I find strange, or at least interesting is the 5 year period. If you actually look up the punishment for overstaying your Visa, it turns out that:

if you overstay by less than 180 days your Visa is canceled but you can re-apply for a new Visa immediately

if you overstay by more than 180 days but less than a year you are barred from entering the US for 3 years

if you overstay by more than a year you are barred from entering the US for 10 years.

No 5 year punishments. From which I would infer that his violation was something other than a simple overstaying of a visa - possibly violating a cumulative limit on successive stays or frequency of entering and staying.
 
What I find strange, or at least interesting is the 5 year period. If you actually look up the punishment for overstaying your Visa, it turns out that:

if you overstay by less than 180 days your Visa is canceled but you can re-apply for a new Visa immediately

if you overstay by more than 180 days but less than a year you are barred from entering the US for 3 years

if you overstay by more than a year you are barred from entering the US for 10 years.

No 5 year punishments. From which I would infer that his violation was something other than a simple overstaying of a visa - possibly violating a cumulative limit on successive stays or frequency of entering and staying.
DO said early on in this thing that the reason was he stayed here 65% of the time over a certain period. As far as i've been able to find is that this 65% is not an actual thing. That's the problem with the rules/regs: WAY too much gray area as to what % of your total 10yr visa can be spent in the US. Yes you can spend 180dys here but how long you go home vs. often you come back is the issue. There is no hard-n-fast rule here. Each immig. officer can rule on a case-by-case basis with no real guidelines to go by. Needs to be fixed for sure.
 
This threads show how decided pool is, we have laws & rules.

Do not comply, get caught, pay price for misbehaving.

Some place in Texas you get ticket 1 mpg over speed limit. Courthouse is open 24 x 7 x 366, Judge asked if your not guilt, if so we will hold trail in week,

Impound vehicle, as of you sit in cell till trail, Texas circa 1990’s.


Like tv show locked up abroad, if you don’t speed Buba don’t pull you over.🤪
Schertz TX on I-35 south of Austin was known as a place like that for years.
 
Schertz TX on I-35 south of Austin was known as a place like that for years.



Believe the area I was warns about was between Denton/Sherman & Amrillo. Remember when I was doing the OTR thing in 96sh, several little town that clearly posted 25 MPH. There town could be crossed in three blinks of eye, but there was alway some speed cops parked in middle of nigh like patient fisherman.

Trucker told story of being stopped 3 MPH Over, being loaded in Cruiser, Taken to Court House at 3am, Judge was on duty. Apprently cousin of Cop, bottom line was $200.00 later the Trucker was on his way. Other wise it would have been some time in jail awaking trail, impounded truck, and who know what else.

Funny part was the violation never appeared on his license, he said I was maybe 1 or 2 over the 25 P)ousted Speed Limit.
 
There are a lot of spots like that around..small towns without much of a tax base that use the highway thru it as a revenue stream for police/fire etc. Plenty of people,particularly travelers will pay the ticket and move on to be done with it.. the little towns bank on it!
 
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Bruce,

Your right about that. Law enforcement might be the dumbest career choice possible now. Sadly.

Pro pool player, or The Fuzz - which one will set me on the path to the American Dream?

There are a lot of spots like that around..small towns without much of a tax base that use the highway thru it as a revenue stream for police/fire etc. Plenty of people,particularly travelers will pay the ticket and move on to be done with it.. the little towns bank on it!

I’ve got an area like that. They have a mandatory headlight usage sign every once in a while along this road. Most people don’t pay attention or take it seriously, and you almost never get pulled over for it.

but...sometimes I guess when they’re low on ticket quota or need some revenue they actually set up these “headlight checkpoints” lol.

I’ve sat and watched before and it’s insane. They will pull over hundreds of cars an hour. They have officers clumped in one spot to point at the drivers and then they send them down the line for a ticket from one the officers spaced downstream.

It’s a semi funny shakedown of tourists mostly. I’ve never gotten yoked up in one but I’m pretty confident they only give warnings to locals, unless you’re an ass.

In life..take what you want, and pay for it.

Good vibes your way Dennis O
 
Pro pool player, or The Fuzz - which one will set me on the path to the American Dream?


Choose the Fuzz guaranteed salery, medical,dental, prescription plan. Pension after 20 years service. Get hurt on job medical retirement.

Pool don’t offer jacks💩💩.

Become pro pool player at retirement.
 
DO said early on in this thing that the reason was he stayed here 65% of the time over a certain period. As far as i've been able to find is that this 65% is not an actual thing. That's the problem with the rules/regs: WAY too much gray area as to what % of your total 10yr visa can be spent in the US. Yes you can spend 180dys here but how long you go home vs. often you come back is the issue. There is no hard-n-fast rule here. Each immig. officer can rule on a case-by-case basis with no real guidelines to go by. Needs to be fixed for sure.
Amen Brother! I'm glad you are finally understanding the issue here. It took a while, but you finally get it.

For everyone else, I'll put this in all caps: DENNIS DID NOT BREAK THE LAW! DENNIS DID NOT OVERSTAY HIS 6 MONTH LIMIT! Dennis simply violated an unwritten precedent on how soon he can return after leaving. Non-citizens don't have many legal rights so they can be refused entry at any time, for any reason, whether it's just or not.
 
Amen Brother! I'm glad you are finally understanding the issue here. It took a while, but you finally get it.

For everyone else, I'll put this in all caps: DENNIS DID NOT BREAK THE LAW! DENNIS DID NOT OVERSTAY HIS 6 MONTH LIMIT! Dennis simply violated an unwritten precedent on how soon he can return after leaving. Non-citizens don't have many legal rights so they can be refused entry at any time, for any reason, whether it's just or not.
Until rules/regs are made clearer those traveling on tourist visas really need to be aware that the combination of long(5mo.+) stays here with short stays at home will put one at risk of getting visa cancelled. Couple of people far more versed in this than me have said you really need to stay in home country for at least a couple months if not longer in order to avoid this issue. A quik turnaround may/not be allowed and is up to the immig. officer doing the interview as to who stays/go's. I contacted my Sen. who is on a couple border committee's and i'm waiting to hear his take.
 
Until rules/regs are made clearer those traveling on tourist visas really need to be aware that the combination of long(5mo.+) stays here with short stays at home will put one at risk of getting visa cancelled. Couple of people far more versed in this than me have said you really need to stay in home country for at least a couple months if not longer in order to avoid this issue. A quik turnaround may/not be allowed and is up to the immig. officer doing the interview as to who stays/go's. I contacted my Sen. who is on a couple border committee's and i'm waiting to hear his take.


Maybe if Dennis was not a frequent traveler, user of the visa system one might feel more sorry for the guy. Me makes his living traveling from place to place where he is no resident.

Sorry Dennis has no one to blame but self for his immigration problem.

Being a great Pool Is not exemption to immigration laws.

Think if Dennis pushes to hard, his penalty could be Barred for Life.

Sure the director of DHS is just enforcing laws, as written.
 
Maybe if Dennis was not a frequent traveler, user of the visa system one might feel more sorry for the guy. Me makes his living traveling from place to place where he is no resident.

Sorry Dennis has no one to blame but self for his immigration problem.

Being a great Pool Is not exemption to immigration laws.

Think if Dennis pushes to hard, his penalty could be Barred for Life.

Sure the director of DHS is just enforcing laws, as written.
For someone who posts so much on here, your reading comprehension is very low. It has been posted on here and the other thread that Dennis DID NOT break any written rules for immigration into this country. What happened to him was a judgement call made by immigration agents in Los Angeles, which I've come to find out is a very strict jurisdiction for a foreigner entering our country. If he had entered somewhere else he may have gotten a pass. Dennis had no way of knowing that repeatedly using a valid B-1 visa he would run into any kind of problem. He never got any warning that his comings and goings were being tracked. This was his warning, a five year ban!
 
DO said early on in this thing that the reason was he stayed here 65% of the time over a certain period. As far as i've been able to find is that this 65% is not an actual thing. That's the problem with the rules/regs: WAY too much gray area as to what % of your total 10yr visa can be spent in the US. Yes you can spend 180dys here but how long you go home vs. often you come back is the issue. There is no hard-n-fast rule here. Each immig. officer can rule on a case-by-case basis with no real guidelines to go by. Needs to be fixed for sure.
You are 100% correct here!
 
I have no dog in this fight and hope for Dennis coming back. My only comment is it does make sense the Govt would raise an eyebrow to someone spending roughly half of their lives during the past 10 years in the USA, without either being a US Citizen or have a Green Card. It sounds like someone doing that (Anyone, not specifically Dennis), is basically circumventing immigration rules and is basically "living full time in the USA".

By that logic, I can understand why this caught up with him. It sounds like he was using the wrong type of Visa. I wonder if its only the Fillipinos using this visa? IDK if the Europeans even need a visa? IDK...
 
EU citizens can stay in the US for 90 days under the visa waiver program
Thanks.

Same principle might apply there too. For example if a European travels back and forth for 10 years, never stays more than 90 days at a time, but ends up almost “living full time” in the USA. The govt might do the same thing and say that’s not the intent of the visa waiver.
 
I have no dog in this fight and hope for Dennis coming back. My only comment is it does make sense the Govt would raise an eyebrow to someone spending roughly half of their lives during the past 10 years in the USA, without either being a US Citizen or have a Green Card. It sounds like someone doing that (Anyone, not specifically Dennis), is basically circumventing immigration rules and is basically "living full time in the USA".

By that logic, I can understand why this caught up with him. It sounds like he was using the wrong type of Visa. I wonder if its only the Fillipinos using this visa? IDK if the Europeans even need a visa? IDK...
That's what catches people out, the total stay time. Problem is there is no set time, its up to each immig. to make the call. Too ambiguous. Needs to be a set % of total allowable time. I've now talked to about three top immig. guys and they say to be safe if you spend 5+ mos. here you need to spend same time back home. Anything less and you're subject to be red-flagg'd.
 
Schertz TX on I-35 south of Austin was known as a place like that for years.
There was a Black community outside of Houston, Kendallia, on Interstate 10 West that was notorious for its speed trap. The JP was a barber. The Feds passed a law stopping speed traps by small towns on the Interstates.
 
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