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herding cats

(19,560 posts)
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 07:12 PM Feb 2017

Exclusive: U.S. arrests Mexican immigrant in Seattle covered by Obama program

Source: Reuters

U.S. authorities have arrested an immigrant from Mexico who was brought to the United States illegally as a child and later given a work permit during the Obama administration in what could be the first detention of its kind under President Donald Trump.

Daniel Ramirez Medina, a 23-year-old with no criminal record, was taken into custody last week at his father's home in Seattle by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. The officers arrived at the home to arrest the man's father, though court documents did no make clear the reason the father was taken into custody.

Ramirez, now in custody in Tacoma, Washington, was granted temporary permission to live and work legally in the United States under a program called the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, established in 2012 by Democratic President Obama, according to a court filing.

The program protects from deportation 750,000 people who were brought to the United States illegally as children, sometimes called the "dreamers," and gives them the temporary right to work legally in the United States.

Read more: http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN15T307

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Exclusive: U.S. arrests Mexican immigrant in Seattle covered by Obama program (Original Post) herding cats Feb 2017 OP
THOSE FUCKING INHUMAN FUCKERS!! 50 Shades Of Blue Feb 2017 #1
This stuff is hurting my heart. I can't think of anything more cruel. sinkingfeeling Feb 2017 #2
Horrific use of our tax dollars... we should not be paying for this! JudyM Feb 2017 #3
How the fuck is deporting this honest, decent young man making us "safe"? SunSeeker Feb 2017 #4
Non mobile link alp227 Feb 2017 #5
this police force KT2000 Feb 2017 #6
How is this shit legal? DK504 Feb 2017 #7

JudyM

(29,225 posts)
3. Horrific use of our tax dollars... we should not be paying for this!
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 07:29 PM
Feb 2017

It's like bush's war all over again.

SunSeeker

(51,550 posts)
4. How the fuck is deporting this honest, decent young man making us "safe"?
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 07:41 PM
Feb 2017

How the fuck is deporting the mother of two US citizen children making those kids safe?







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