Judge demands answers from ICE on detention of young mother
Source: The Boston Globe
By Maria Cramer GLOBE STAFF FEBRUARY 16, 2018
A federal judge in Boston is demanding that immigration authorities explain why a Guatemalan mother of two was arrested and jailed for nearly a month after going to a government office to apply for legal residency.
On Jan. 17, Lilian Pahola Calderon Jimenez, a 30-year-old waitress whose parents brought her to the United States when she was 3, had just finished an interview with officials from Citizenship and Immigration Services in Johnston, R.I., when she was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
On Tuesday, she was released without explanation, eight days before US District Judge Mark Wolf was slated to hear her petition for release. In an order handed down Thursday, Wolf pressed immigration officials for answers.
“The court has not been informed of the procedures that led to Calderon’s release, the reasons for it, or whether ICE asserts that it had lawfully detained Calderon and has the authority to do so again in the same manner,” Wolf wrote.
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