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ICE Hit Man With SUV Seeking Immigrant Who Died in 2017
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In Short: ICE officials arrested Miguel Parra Hernández during a traffic stop in Houston last weekend, claiming he ran in front of a government vehicle, but an immigration advocacy group and an attorney revealed that the immigrant ICE was seeking, Jose Mendoza-Cervantes, had been dead since 2017.
NBC News reported that ICE was attempting to arrest Mendoza-Cervantes when an agent struck and seriously injured Hernández with an SUV.
House Democratic candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier called for the abolishment of ICE, stating, 'you can’t reform an agency whose purpose is to terrorize immigrant families. You can’t train cruelty out of a system built to enact cruelty. ICE must be abolished.'
The Supreme Court agreed to review the Trump administration’s policy of holding illegal immigrants in detention without a bond hearing while their deportation cases move forward.
For about 30 years, only immigrants caught at the border or those with certain criminal convictions could be held without a bond hearing.
The administration leaned on a part of federal law that says such immigrants 'shall be detained,' rather than the older provision that lets a judge release them on a bond of at least $1,500.
Justice Department lawyers told the court the split had created an unworkable patchwork, where an immigrant is locked up in one part of the country and released in another.
The plaintiffs are immigrants represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, which says hundreds of district court judges have joined most circuits in rejecting the Trump administration's new reading of the statutes.
The justices will consider whether immigrants who have been living in the U.S. have a right to a hearing to determine if they should remain detained while challenging their possible deportation.
A senior DHS official told NBC News on Thursday that the officer driving the vehicle that hit Parra has been placed on administrative leave.
The incident has raised serious questions about the agency's practices and the treatment of immigrants.
ICE agent Christian Castro pleaded not guilty Friday to federal charges alleging that he lied to investigators about the events that led to the January shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant in north Minneapolis.
What this adds
The Supreme Court's review of the detention policy could have significant implications for the treatment of immigrants in the U.S.
What's confirmed
- The man in the photo had been dead for nearly a decade.
- The person ICE said it was trying to detain when one of its agents struck a man with an SUV in Houston last weekend has been dead since 2017, according to an immigration advocacy group and an attorney who spoke with the deceased immigrant’s family.
- For about 30 years, only immigrants caught at the border or those with certain criminal convictions could be held without a bond hearing.
- The administration leaned on a part of federal law that says such immigrants “shall be detained,” rather than the older provision that lets a judge release them on a bond of at least $1,500.
What's still developing
- That kind of wanton cruelty happened again last weekend when ICE officials arrested Miguel Parra Hernandez during a traffic stop in Houston, later explaining his injuries by saying the suspect ran in front of a government vehicle.
- A nonprofit newsroom dedicated to reporting for Minnesota’s immigrants and communities of color.
- EXCLUSIVE – A Biden-era pipeline that allowed federal immigration officials to solicit and accept private gifts for illegal immigrants in custody has been shut down at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, with the agency saying the policy no longer fits the Trump administration's border crackdown.
- "This delegation order is no longer needed or appropriate," Scott wrote.
- House Democratic candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier is calling for New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch to step down after a suspected illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic was shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the city on Thursday.
- Video from that incident, originally shared as a livestream, showed workers on a rooftop, with ICE agents arriving and bringing workers down before arresting six alleged illegal immigrants.
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) because the workers were immigrants.
- READ MORE: Supreme Court rules against private prison firm alleged to have forced immigrant detainees to work for $1 a day "The result is an unworkable patchwork of inconsistent immigration enforcement, where aliens present without admission are subject to mandatory detention in some circuits but are entitled to bond hearings and often released in others," lawyers for the administration wrote.
- "disrupting the orderly administration of immigration law."
- Most appeals courts to have considered the issue have found that it violates federal law to detain immigrants, including those living in the U.S.
- He has never been charged or convicted of a crime, his attorneys said.
- Bruno also is representing Luis Delfín Martínez, one of two men who were handcuffed in the back of the ICE vehicle when it struck Parra.