Lawyers sue after Seattle ‘Dreamer’ arrested

Ramirez filed a challenge to his detention in Seattle federal court on Monday, arguing that the government violated his constitutional rights because he had work authorization under the DACA program, his lawsuit said.

(Vatican Radio) The fate of Daniel Ramirez Medina, who’s been detained in Washington State, and is being held, in spite of being protected from deportation by US Law, will determine the futures of tens of thousands of people, who were brought to the United States as children, by undocumented parents.

Ramirez is the father of a 3-year-old son who is a USA citizen, his lawyers have said.

It is estimated that there are about 750,000 DREAMers, who sought protection through the DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) Act, were able to receive work permits under former President Obama’s 2012 executive actions. “Are you legally here?” the agents asked Ramirez, according to the lawsuit.

Federal agents arrested Daniel Medina Ramirez last week at his father’s home near Seattle. The Associated Press reported that the federal magistrate who heard the case said Ramirez must now request a bond hearing from a federal immigration judge, which should be granted within a week.

Rosenbaum also accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials of doctoring a form filled out by Ramirez asking to be transferred out of the gang unit at the detention center.

The officers took Ramirez into custody, Richeson said, because he admitted being affiliated with a gang and was a “risk to public safety”.

Mark Rosenbaum, one of Ramirez’s lawyers, told reporters Tuesday that Ramirez “unequivocally denies being in a gang” and that the statement from Richeson is inaccurate.

She hopes the president will extend DACA so people like Patricio can come out of the shadows.

In a statement on Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security said that since 2012, when Obama was president, about 1,500 DACA recipients have had their permits terminated due to a criminal conviction or gang affiliation.

“We are concerned because these boys were in the USA with adequate legal status…” Some have linked the case to a sweep that resulted in the detention of almost 700 immigrants in one week.

Dreamers around the country are afraid of being detained or even deported given President Donald Trump’s new policies on immigration. And a specific part of the scrutiny that you subject yourself to is whether you’ve had any connection to the criminal justice system, whether you’ve committed any crime, any sort of serious criminal action as well as gang affiliations. At one point during the campaign, Trump said that “they have to go”. Adams said he believes Ramirez was apprehended by mistake.

But DHS continues to stand by the detention saying not only did Ramirez admit to being a gang member but that he has a tattoo to corroborate their story. He came to the US from Mexico when he was 7, and recently moved from California to Washington for a better job.

“A member came to me for help renewing their DACA”, said Kazi Fouzia, a community organizer at DRUM.

In the early morning of 10 February, Medina was awoken by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid on the home where he was staying in Des Moines, Washington, outside Seattle. Ramirez wrote on the paper that he is not a member of a gang and that’s he’s never been involved in gang activity, Rosenbaum said.

The legal brief filed on behalf of Ramirez has sweeping language, stressing the extensive steps qualifying individuals must take, including submitting to a background check and turning over highly sensitive information.

“We’re hopeful the immigration judge will recognize there’s no reason to keep Mr. Ramirez”, Theodore Boutrous, one of his attorneys said outside the courthouse after Friday’s hearing. “It’s unconscionable that Daniel, who trusted the government and registered under DACA, was picked up and sent to a detention center”.

“All his life is here”. La Paz means “Peace” in Spanish and is also the capital of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur, where Ramirez was born.