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ICE Sought Dead Man When SUV Hit Immigrant
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In Short: The incident has sparked renewed debate over ICE's practices and the treatment of immigrants.
NBC News reported that ICE was attempting to arrest Jose Mendoza-Cervantes during a traffic stop in Houston on October 10, when an agent struck and seriously injured Miguel Parra Hernández, 48, with an SUV.
According to an immigration advocacy group and an attorney who spoke with Hernández’s family, Mendoza-Cervantes had been dead since 2017.
NBC News quoted ICE as saying, 'allegations that ICE struck Miguel Parra-Hernandez intentionally are RECKLESS and FALSE.'
Immigration advocates argue that ICE's actions are cruel and unjust, while ICE maintains that its agents were conducting a targeted enforcement operation.
In a separate incident, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested six alleged illegal immigrants after arriving at a construction site.
ICE agents were called to the scene because the workers were immigrants.
The Supreme Court agreed to review the Trump administration’s policy of holding illegal immigrants in detention without a bond hearing.
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.
House Democratic candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier is calling for the abolishment of ICE, saying, '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 plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case 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.
What this adds
The Supreme Court's review of the Trump administration’s policy of holding illegal immigrants in detention without a bond hearing adds another layer to the debate over immigration enforcement.
Background
According to an immigration advocacy group and an attorney who spoke with Hernandez's family, the man ICE claimed to be seeking had been dead for nearly a decade.
What's confirmed
- NBC News reported that ICE was attempting to arrest Jose Mendoza-Cervantes during a traffic stop in Houston on October 10, when an agent struck and seriously injured Miguel Parra Hernández, 48, with an SUV.
- According to an immigration advocacy group and an attorney who spoke with Hernández’s family, Mendoza-Cervantes had been dead since 2017.
- Immigration advocates argue that ICE's actions are cruel and unjust, while ICE maintains that its agents were conducting a targeted enforcement operation.
- In a separate incident, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested six alleged illegal immigrants after arriving at a construction site.
- ICE agents were called to the scene because the workers were immigrants.
- The Supreme Court agreed to review the Trump administration’s policy of holding illegal immigrants in detention without a bond hearing.
- 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 in the Supreme Court case 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.
What's still developing
- The man in the photo had been dead for nearly a decade.
- 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.
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- Immigration 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Those decisions conflict with rulings by the 5th and 8th circuits, which held that immigrants accused of illegally entering and remaining in the U.S. must be detained while their deportation cases are pending.
- He has never been charged or convicted of a crime, his attorneys said.