Detained Dreamer's Lawyers Say Government Doctored Legal Document to Try and Prove False Gang Affili

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Lawyers for Daniel Ramirez Medina, the twice-authorized, 23-year-old DACA recipient who was scooped up by immigration enforcement near Seattle last week, say that government officials doctored a legal document at the Northwest Detention Center in an attempt to prove that Ramirez Medina was part of a gang.

The allegation of government misconduct is outlined in a brief filed by Ramirez Medina's lawyers in US District Court in Seattle. The lawyers say that when Ramirez Medina—who has been detained inside the Tacoma's Northwest Detention Center's gang unit for a week—tried to petition to be removed from the gang unit, part of his written petition was erased.
The brief states Ramirez Medina originally wrote: “I came in and the officers said I have gang affiliation with gangs so I wear an orange uniform. I do not have a criminal history and I’m not affiliated with any gangs.”

But according to an additional declaration filed to the court, the statement returned to Medina by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials five days later says: "I have gang affiliation with gangs so I wear an orange uniform. I do not have a criminal history and I’m not affiliated with any gangs.”

The document filed to the court bears clear signs of erased words. (See the image above.)

"What began, I thought, as a mistake in bringing Daniel in has turned into a bogus operation that is attempting to railroad him and violate the sacred program that the DACA represents," lawyer Mark Rosenbaum told reporters on a conference call this evening. "It is one of the most serious examples of governmental misconduct that I have come across in my 40 years of practice."

http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/02/16/24878118/detained-dreamers-lawyers-say-government-doctored-legal-document-to-try-and-prove-false-gang-affiliation

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I believe in 45's America, ICE is the new SS.

[sheshe2]

2. Bingo.

[herding cats]

5. That's exactly right.

Who will they be coming for next?

[bravenak]

3. Well, first of All it's

"Sureños "And Paisas are just people from the home nation as 'Pais' mean country, so it's like when italians or spaniards say 'paisanos'. Fuuuck.
So, him hanging out with paisas shoukd really not be a problem and they need ice officers that actually know some espanol.

[2naSalit]

4. The Tangerine Menace SAID there

were gang members and drug pushers so they had better find some! Or else.



(maybe we need a jack-booted thug emogi thingy for a while)

[iluvtennis]

6. Trump is EVIL incarnate...he will pay for this. nt

[SunSeeker]

7. Wow.

Glad the young man has a good lawyer -- he should sue for millions.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. More on this - Release denied for 'dreamer' detained by immigration agents

SEATTLE — A federal magistrate on Friday declined to immediately release a man arrested by immigration agents last week despite his participation in a federal program to protect those brought to the U.S. illegally.

Magistrate Judge James P. Donohue said in U.S. District Court in Seattle that Daniel Ramirez Medina must request a bond hearing from a federal immigration judge and that the hearing should take place within a week.

While Donohue deferred to the immigration judge on the custody issue, he said the case would return to his court on the issue of whether the federal court has jurisdiction to hear Ramirez's claims that his detention violated his rights.

The judge also said he recognized the unusual nature of the case and noted that there are others in similar situations to Ramirez who want answers.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/release-denied-for-dreamer-detained-by-immigration-agents/ar-AAn2pKy?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp