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anti-immigrant crackdown will finally be released

Katherine Krueger
3/29/17 8:17am Filed to: NEWS 432

AP

A 23-year-old Mexican immigrant who was arrested by Immigration and

Customs Enforcement agents despite being cleared to live in the U.S. under
President Obama's DeferredAction for Childhood Arrivals act will be released
from federal custody soon, his lawyers announced Tuesday night.

On Feb. 10, Daniel Ramirez Medina became the first DACA recipient to be
arrested under President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown when ICE
officers arrested him and his father in Seattle.
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#DACA recipient Daniel Ramirez Medina arrested near Seattle

on Feb. 10th to be released on bail fusion.net/story/386895/d
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That means Ramirez, who's legally shielded from deportation under DACA, will
have been held in a federal immigration jail for nearly seven weeks. An
immigration judge granted his release Tuesday on a $15,000 bail while his case
moves forward,according to a statement from his lawyers.

As BuzzFeed News reported:

[Ramirez had] since filed a federal habeas corpus action, seeking to have the
federal government justify his detention and asking a court to order his release.
Ramirez's legal team which includes prominent legal scholars, law firm
attorneys, and nonprofit advocates had asked the federal court to order
Ramirez to be released while his case is pending. That judge declined to do so,
stating that Ramirez's "avenue for seeking such release should occur in the
context of his removal proceedings, which by his own admission, are not being
challenged here."

Sadly, Ramirez's ongoing ordeal is just one in a new uptick ofarrests and
deportations under Trump's executive orders on immigration. ICE officials have
been emboldened to pick up domestic violence victims seeking protective orders
in courthouses, mothers appearing for their legally mandated annual check-ins
with immigration officers, and other DACA recipients.
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