My deportation from the US in June 2007

On June 8 of this year (2007) I was driving with my own car from Logan (near Salt Lake City) from home in the State of Utah where I live. I was planning to fill the immigrant petition to the INS after the employment visa H1B, even if I would have to leave the United States to legalize the status, currently I was on B1 visa.

I was driving to Calgary in Canada in the province Alberta, when I got to the border crossing in Coutts/Sweet Grass in the state of Montana, one of very few where the Canadian and the American side share the same office building.

First the immigration officers of the Canada forbade me the entry on Canadian territory because I had no valid Canadian visa. I was not worrying neither about Canadian or American visa because the Polish press reported (Nowy Dziennik around 25th of March) that Poland is the VWP (Visa Vaiver Program) country i.e without visas like the rest of the European Union since the February, so it is also not subjected to issuing visas by Canada.

My tourist-business visa expired only 9 months before this date while the immigration in Atlanta did not issue me the B1 business status for the requested 6 months claiming I cannot do scientific work on it even totally without the US salary or funds from the US source and forced me to adjustment to impossible exchange-visitor status J1 and I was pre-detained and threatened with the immediate return to Warsaw while I was flying from München.

The Canadian side returned me to the American side when I was ordered to wait in detention 5 hours since 3 am for the immigration officers supervisor. After a few hours the immigration officer arrested me according to the article 236 of the Immigration and the Naturalization Act. I remained silence and I was transported to the arrest in Shelby, and after tree days to the arrest in Boulder near Helena in the State of Montana.

Next, with the combination of planes and buses I was transported for about one week to the immigration court in Florence in the state of Arizona. On June 25 because of severe living conditions in the deportation camp and bedsores I have asked the immigration judge for the voluntary departure from the USA. On July 27 I was taken with the prison van to the cargo airport in Santa Ana in the State of California, from where I was taken by the KLM plane to Amsterdam.

I do not understand the aggressiveness of United States immigration services against my person i.e. my arrest by the USA during the DEPARTURE [sic] from the Unites States and while driving my own car and during the legalization of acts allowing illegal immigrants remaining in the USA, the membership of the Republic of Poland in the European Union and lack of any other nations of the European Union in deportation arrests of the USA, and also the fact of having the house in the USA and the way I was traveling.

I was cut from home and few hundred thousand dollars property in the USA. While traveling for one day to Canada I found myself after two months of arrest at Okecie airport cut from my home. I am the world famous scientist and I have never worked illegally in USA neither outside my profession. I got to the USA on F-1 visa and later worked on H1B visa and frequently traveled on B1/B2 visa.

In 1991 I graduated Warsaw University of Technology and next after sending about 25000 letters to all universities on the world and passing the American Great Matura GRE and TOELF I managed to get into PhD studies in the University of Rochester in the State of New York.

In the USA I found myself really because of poverty in Poland and not friendly attitude of the European Union to Polish passport.

In 1992 I was accepted to the University of Lancaster, but because of the lack of the Republic of Poland membership in the European Union I was being requested thousands of pounds tuition fees which I was able to avoid in the USA. Despite of the fact that I am traveling on Passport of Republic of Poland I have also the citizenship of the Federal Republic of Germany and the second place of permanent residence in Germany.

In the arrest of the immigration court in Florence I was the only one of two Polish citizens for about 200-500 Latinos per day arrested for crossing the Mexican border.

Matt Kalinski

Note added 17.06.2026: In the light of the anti-immigration actions and further plans of Donald Trump especially of his executive order to forcibly and illegally overwrite the point (1) of the (14) amendment to the US constitution without approval of 2/3 of Congress about the right to the US citizenship Jus Soli, of the  appointment of the pro-Israeli activist Tom Rose for the US ambassador in Warsaw while the current state of Israel is not clear for Poland because of the compulsory military service in IDF which is damaging the careers of some of the world best Israeli scientists with three years military slavery scientific work gap and also of the para-Nazi executive orders aiming to discriminate non-procreative people which also implies promotion of discrimination of the marital status, as well as the enactment of the Take it Down Act under the initiative of Melania Trump  in  clear violation of the 1-st amendment to the US Constitution and especially the illegal seizure of the cfake.com internet domain under the illegal Act violating the freedom of the Pornographic Arts  in the Academia in the author’s current interpretation the events described above are the war crimes and the crimes against humanity against him while demolishing his private research company in the Theoretical Physics creating him at home the work conditions above the offices of the Universities like Harvard or Princeton by cutting him from the access to it in the United States the barbarity. They are the violation of the point (1) of the (14) amendment to the US constitution as well as the violation of the spirit of the article (49) of the IV Geneva Convention about the expulsions and deportations from the life settlements on the occupied territories during the war. The (14) amendment to the US constitution grants the unlimited right to the US citizenship not only by birth but also by the naturalization which should be interpreted not as the formal legal paper procedure but the naturalization de facto i.e. the assimilation into the United States and its society for example by fluently speaking the American English or changing look into native American citizen etc. after the prolong period of time while there are no more any persons not subjected to it because there is no slavery. Author at the time of the removal was the tax resident of the United States for 15-teen years and as such was equivalent to the teenager born in the United States of that age and so naturalized in the sense of the (14) amendment and he was suddenly took out of his house and the American life out of the United States to his birth country Poland which already became to him foreign.

After reevaluating it in details the author is currently also not considering the F-1 student visa status which was given him originally in 1992 to study at the University of Rochester and which ultimately lead him to the forcible removal  as constitutionally legal. One cannot study in the US for the PhD 10 years and and the same time not naturalize to the US citizen de facto by the interaction with the US as defined by the (14) amendment of the US constitution.  His naturalization is fully equivalent to being reborn in the US and by rights to the US citizenship  he should be considered as a  child born on the US soil. The student visa status should be either legal permanent  residence or at least if temporary should carry the possibility of the dual intention of entry to permanently stay and not stay while not being sure.  Otherwise carrying the possibility of deportation for overstaying it and giving without adjustment to new status only 10 days after receiving the academic degree to abandon property and leave the United States is also the violation of the spirit of the article (49) of the IV Geneva Convention prohibiting expulsions of civilians from life residences even on the occupied territories. 

Matt Kalinski