Associated Press
February 15, 2017
SEATTLE — The Latest on the case of a man brought to the U.S. illegally as a child but was protected from deportation by former President Barack Obama’s administration who has been taken into custody in the Seattle area. (all times local):
10:30 a.m.
Immigrant rights activists are demanding the federal government immediately release a Seattle-area man who was brought to the U.S. from Mexico illegally as a child but was protected from deportation under a policy by President Barack Obama.
Daniel Ramirez Medina, 23, was arrested Friday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who went to arrest his father.
Federal authorities say Medina told agents he was a gang member and was taken into custody because he was a “risk to public safety.”
But Greisa Martinez, advocacy director for United We Dream immigrant support group, told reporters Wednesday that was “a lie.”
She says Medina had no criminal record and spent thousands of dollars to maintain his status in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
She asked Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly to “release Daniel right now.”
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12:01 a.m.
A Seattle-area man who was brought to the U.S. illegally as a child but was protected from deportation under a policy by President Barack Obama is suing the federal government over his arrest and detention last week.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 23-year-old Daniel Ramirez Medina on Friday at his father’s home. Agents were there to arrest his father and took Ramirez into custody even though he has a work permit under Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, court documents said.
ICE spokeswoman Rose Richeson said in a statement that Ramirez told agents he was a gang member and based on those statements and being a “risk to public safety,” he was taken into custody.
Mark Rosenbaum, one of Ramirez’s lawyers, responded that Ramirez “unequivocally denies being in a gang” and that the statement from Richeson is inaccurate.
For more information, go to: www.beverlyhillsimmigrationlaw.com
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