Donald Trump and the Republican administration are abducting innocent immigrants without cause
Innocent migrants are suffering! A reign of abduction terror continues. Remember Kilmar Abrego Garcia* and now Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, 18 year old Milford Massachusetts student. 
There is nothing patriotic about ‘Operation Patriot’.
Echo opinion letter published in the Boston Globe and reported in The Guardian:
Dear Globe Editor: For weeks we’ve been hearing of arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE: We will ‘keep coming back,’ ” Metro, June 3). This week, we learn they have given their operation a name: “Operation Patriot.”
Cute. But, certainly, nothing is patriotic about ICE arresting an 18-year-old high school student on his way to volleyball practice (“A mother waits in anguish,” Page A1, June 3).
Reported in The Guardian: A Boston (Milford Mass) high school student who was detained by immigration agents on Saturday while he was on his way to volleyball practice must be kept in Massachusetts for at least 72 hours, a federal judge said on Monday.
Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, 18, entered the United States on a student visa, according to a lawsuit filed on his behalf after his arrest. While his student visa status has lapsed, he is eligible for and intends to apply for asylum.
US district judge Richard Stearns ordered the 72-hour stay on Monday to “provide a fair opportunity for the judge who will be randomly assigned to this case” to review merits and rule on any contested issues.
*A Maryland man named Kilmar Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported to El Salvador and is currently being held in a megaprison there. The Trump administration acknowledged the error, but El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has stated he will not allow Garcia to return to the US. Garcia had been living in Maryland with his family for 13 years.
Echo opinion letter published in the Boston Globe and reported in The Guardian:
Dear Globe Editor: For weeks we’ve been hearing of arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE: We will ‘keep coming back,’ ” Metro, June 3). This week, we learn they have given their operation a name: “Operation Patriot.”
Cute. But, certainly, nothing is patriotic about ICE arresting an 18-year-old high school student on his way to volleyball practice (“A mother waits in anguish,” Page A1, June 3).
There is nothing patriotic about grabbing immigrants lawfully appearing for their court hearings and disappearing them to detention facilities far away from their families. There is nothing patriotic about putting our neighbors in panic and fear that they or their children will be next.
Although the Trump Republican administration might claim that it’s going after criminals, but it’s really going after moms and dads and high school kids, and any immigrant it can easily arrest; immigrants following the law are its easiest targets.
The Trump Republican administration may say that it’s improving our public safety, but detaining people when they’re appearing for their court hearings undermines our justice system and makes us all less safe.
This lawlessness will continue until our other branches of government step up and take action to end this reign of terror.
From: Jeannie Kain Kogler in Quincy Massachusetts
Although the Trump Republican administration might claim that it’s going after criminals, but it’s really going after moms and dads and high school kids, and any immigrant it can easily arrest; immigrants following the law are its easiest targets.
The Trump Republican administration may say that it’s improving our public safety, but detaining people when they’re appearing for their court hearings undermines our justice system and makes us all less safe.
This lawlessness will continue until our other branches of government step up and take action to end this reign of terror.
From: Jeannie Kain Kogler in Quincy Massachusetts
Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, 18, entered the United States on a student visa, according to a lawsuit filed on his behalf after his arrest. While his student visa status has lapsed, he is eligible for and intends to apply for asylum.
US district judge Richard Stearns ordered the 72-hour stay on Monday to “provide a fair opportunity for the judge who will be randomly assigned to this case” to review merits and rule on any contested issues.
Nonetheless, the head of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday defended his agency’s actions, saying the teen in question was “in this country illegally and we’re not going to walk away from anybody”. Gomes’s attorney asked for his immediate release.
Attorney Miriam Conrad, in a filing on Sunday, said that Gomes “has no criminal history anywhere in the world” in asking for his release.
Sadly, Gomes was arrested on Saturday in Milford, Massachusetts, where he lives.
Ice’s acting director, Todd Lyons, and Patricia Hyde – who directs the agency’s enforcement and removal operations in Boston – acknowledged Gomes was not the target of the immigration investigation that led to his arrest and that authorities instead were seeking his father, who remains at large.
But the Milford high school student had been driving his father’s vehicle when he was arrested following a traffic stop, Lyons said. Lyons said that when authorities encounter someone in the country illegally, “we will take action on that”.
“We’re doing the job that Ice should have been doing all along,” he said. “We enforce all immigration laws.”
The state’s Democratic governor, Maura Healey, said she was “disturbed and outraged” by Gomes’s arrest. And hundreds rallied in Milford on Sunday to protest against Gomes’s detention.
A federal judge issued an emergency order on Sunday preventing authorities from transferring Gomes out of Massachusetts for at least 72 hours in response to his lawsuit arguing that he was unlawfully detained.
Reuters contributed to this report
Attorney Miriam Conrad, in a filing on Sunday, said that Gomes “has no criminal history anywhere in the world” in asking for his release.
Sadly, Gomes was arrested on Saturday in Milford, Massachusetts, where he lives.
Ice’s acting director, Todd Lyons, and Patricia Hyde – who directs the agency’s enforcement and removal operations in Boston – acknowledged Gomes was not the target of the immigration investigation that led to his arrest and that authorities instead were seeking his father, who remains at large.
But the Milford high school student had been driving his father’s vehicle when he was arrested following a traffic stop, Lyons said. Lyons said that when authorities encounter someone in the country illegally, “we will take action on that”.
“We’re doing the job that Ice should have been doing all along,” he said. “We enforce all immigration laws.”
The state’s Democratic governor, Maura Healey, said she was “disturbed and outraged” by Gomes’s arrest. And hundreds rallied in Milford on Sunday to protest against Gomes’s detention.
A federal judge issued an emergency order on Sunday preventing authorities from transferring Gomes out of Massachusetts for at least 72 hours in response to his lawsuit arguing that he was unlawfully detained.
Reuters contributed to this report
Labels: Boston Globe, ICE, Jeannie Kain Kogler, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, Milford Massachusetts, The Guardian
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