US judge says arrested Mexican 'DREAM-er' should get bail hearing

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



17 FEB 2017 AT 15:05 ET

A federal judge in Seattle on Friday ruled that a Mexican immigrant with a work permit who is being held by immigration officials must be allowed to argue for his release from U.S. custody while court proceedings over his arrest move forward.

Daniel Ramirez Medina, 23, who received permission to work in the United States under President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, was arrested last week at his father’s home near Seattle by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, according to a lawsuit he filed challenging his detention. The lawsuit said he was brought to the United States illegally as a child and given a work permit during the Obama administration.

ICE has alleged that Ramirez has gang ties and should be deported, but Ramirez’s lawyers have filed court papers denying that he has any gang involvement or criminal record and saying he should not have been targeted for removal.

Ramirez’s lawyers have said this could be the first time under U.S. President Donald Trump that a person covered by DACA has been taken into immigration custody.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/us-judge-says-arrested-mexican-dream-er-should-get-bail-hearing/

[DK504]

1. So he has a green card, giving him permission

to be in the US. A green card is a green card, case closed. ICE needs to produce an ironclad case that he has no right to be here, even though he is here legally.

This has already gotten out of hand. These agents are scoping people up without doing their job. As ICE agents should already know how to check an iD need to how to do their damn job.

[okwmember]

3. I didn't see that he has a green card, just a work visa

A green card is a permanent resident designation, a visa is for people here temporarily for a specific reason (work, student, visitor).

But if he has the visa, I would think he still has the right to due process.

[nsd]

4. He doesn't have a green card or a visa.

DACA doesn't grant legal status to remain in the United States. It's a policy directive instructing ICE and CBP to use discretion when dealing with people brought here as children and to avoid deporting them unless they have committed some other crime. It's pretty much a "look the other way" type deal.

That's the problem. DACA was never going to be a solution, and President Obama was clear on that when he issued it. It was meant to be a stop-gap measure until comprehensive immigration legislation (of whatever kind) could make it through Congress.

[PSPS]

2. Plus he's being held in a for-profit prison in Tacoma. More laundering of taxpayer money.