Dreamer detained by Ice agents while in process of Daca status renewal
LBN thread: DREAMer detained by ICE moments after speaking at immigration rally
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Source: The Guardian
Dreamer detained by Ice agents while in process of Daca status renewal
Immigration officials arrested Daniela Vargas, whose father and
brother are also in custody, after she delivered a speech for
undocumented migrants rights
Oliver Laughland in New York
Wednesday 1 March 2017 23.23 GMT
A young woman applying for the renewal of her Daca status was arrested and detained by immigration agents in Jackson, Mississippi on Wednesday, shortly after she addressed a press conference in support of undocumented migrants rights.
Daniela Vargas, a 22-year-old who came to the US as a seven-year-old child from Cordoba, Argentina, had told the rally how she dreamed of returning to college and becoming a math teacher, according to her attorneys.
Shortly after the event, as she was driven along an interstate highway by a friend, she was pulled over by Immigration and Customs Agents (Ice) and arrested, said immigration attorney Nathan Elmore. Vargas had been a recipient of Barack Obamas Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program, which allows undocumented migrants relief from deportation and education and work rights.
But her Daca status had recently expired, with her attorneys lodging an unresolved renewal application in recent weeks, Elmore said.
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