DREAMER Ramirez to Be Released From ICE Detention
In February, Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents locked up Daniel Ramirez Medina, an undocumented immigrant whose parents brought him with them into the U.S. illegally when he was a child. Today, Ramirez’s lawyers announced that he will be released.
Ramirez was granted a temporary permit to remain in the country by the Obama administration, and there was no obvious reason for his arrest (or kidnapping) other than his undocumented status. His detention and the legal challenge to it has become a test case for the authority of the Trump administration to crack down on undocumented immigrants.
In a press release this morning, Ramirez’s lawyers announced that a federal judge has ordered Ramirez’s release on condition of a $15,000 bond. “Like the three-quarters of a million Dreamers in this country, Daniel was brought to the United States as a child and knows no other home,” said Mark Rosenbaum, director of Opportunity Under Law at Public Counsel, and a member of Mr. Ramirez’s legal team. “This is an important first step toward justice for Daniel.”
Ramirez is not out of the woods yet. His case, and the scope of the executive branch’s authority to deport undocumented immigrants, is still under review in federal court.
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