The Case Of The Arrested Dreamer Could Lay Precedent

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Daniel Ramírez Medina, the Dreamer who was arrested in a Seattle immigration raid in February and whose case could set a legal precedent, will remain in a detention center in Washington state until his next hearing in front of an immigration judge on 8 March that will determine if he will be released on bail. This was determined by a federal judge in Seattle who denied his lawyers' request to release him on Monday while certain legal questions about his case are aired.

The 23-year-old Mexican is part of a program that has allowed some 750,000 undocumented youths who came to the United States as children to stay temporarily in the country - which is why his arrest has caused great controversy and terror among other Dreamers like him. The outcome of their case could be crucial for the future of these young people, who they assumed were safe under the protection of DACA (Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) before the election of President Donald Trump..

"Mr. Ramírez is admitted to DACA and therefore is considered to be legally present in the United States," his attorneys wrote in documents filed with a federal magistrate, as reported by BuzzFeed News. "He has not been found guilty or charged with any crime but has already been detained for more than two weeks."

His rights to due process, equal protection under the law and his protection under the Fourth Amendment have been violated by the actions of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) who arrested him, they added. the lawyers.

In addition to seeking the release of Ramírez Medina, they went to the Federal Court of the Seattle District in search of an order that guarantees the due process of other Dreamers and that they are also not detained for their immigration status. "Leaving Mr. Ramírez in custody indicates that arresting and detaining a Dreamer without probable cause or reasonable suspicion is permissible, potentially putting all DACA holders at risk," said the attorneys, who presented the case to Magistrate James Donohue.

The lawyers went to a federal court - and not an immigration judge - to also defend Ramírez Medina against the allegations of ICE agents that assure that the young man confessed to being involved in gangs, something that he and his lawyers have denied. categorically and that would jeopardize your protection under DACA.