US again seeks to cancel #DACA immigrants deportation protection--THIS IS BEYOND CRUEL!....

By GENE JOHNSON
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US again seeks to cancel immigrant’s deportation protection

SEATTLE (AP) — Immigration officials forced by a court order to reinstate a Mexican man’s participation in a program designed to protect those brought to the United States illegally as children are again trying to revoke it.

Daniel Ramirez Medina, 25, drew international attention last year when he was placed in deportation proceedings despite his participation in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. He was one of the first people in the program arrested after President Donald Trump took office, despite having committed no crime, and his detention signaled an erosion of protections under the DACA program instituted by President Barack Obama in 2012.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services reinstated his DACA status and work permission in response to a February ruling in a federal class-action lawsuit in California. That ruling said that authorities could not strip participants of their protections without giving them a chance to contest the decision.

Another federal court in California has ordered the government to maintain the DACA program; nearly 700,000 people are enrolled nationally.

Early this month, however, the agency notified Ramirez that it intended to revoke his status again. It cited the same rationale it used to detain him before: that he had admitted to having gang ties. His lawyers say the government invented that assertion, and an immigration judge has called it unfounded.

“It’s an incredibly cruel approach to this case,” said one of Ramirez’s lawyers, Ethan Dettmer. “What’s unlawful about it is that they’ve for over a year now had the opportunity to substantiate their claim Daniel’s a gang member. They have not done it.”...........................................


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