Latino Marine veteran detained for deportation
Eli Rosenberg, The Washington Post
Published 8:48 a.m. ET Jan. 17, 2019
... Because Kessler had worked on a case to secure temporary residency for Ramos-Gomez's mother, who is originally from Guatemala, under the Citizenship and Immigration Services' "parole in place" stipulations for parents of service members, he said he had Ramos-Gomez's proof of citizenship readily available, including the veteran's birth certificate and social security information.
"I immediately called ICE and shouted at them," he said. "And they called me back and said, kind of, 'Oops, yeah, come and get him.' They didn't say our bad but kind of implied that."
Ramos-Gomez's story rocketed to national attention on Wednesday after the American Civil Liberties Union called for the county to investigate how an American citizen and decorated veteran was taken into ICE custody ...
Emailed requests to ICE for more information on the case were returned with an automatic reply that said communications staff was not working during the government shutdown ...
https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/2019/01/17/latino-marine-veteran-u-s-citizen-set-deported-ice-aclu/2601623002/
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