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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLAX immigration agents asked detainees to sign away their legal residency status, attorneys say
http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/01/30/68577/lax-immigration-agents-asked-detainees-to-sign-awa/Several people with green cards traveling from countries targeted under President Donald Trump's immigration executive order were held for hours and questioned by Customs and Border Protection officers.
During those interviews, the agents put forms in front of the detainees and tried to persuade them to sign away their residency status, said Stacy Tolchin, a private attorney working with the ACLU in representing detainees.
"We believe immigration was trying to coerce them into abandoning their permanent residency status," Tolchin said.
In a federal court filing Saturday on behalf of Fatema Farmad and Marzieh Moosavizadeh Yazdi, the attorneys said the immigration agents' actions amounted to an attempt to "coerce individuals to sign a form to relinquish their lawful permanent resident status or otherwise withdraw their applications for admission."
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Federal immigration law states that when a returning permanent resident is seeking admission, the government cannot bar them, she said.
The agents' action would appear to escalate the seriousness of legal violations that immigration attorneys say occurred over the weekend at LAX. In such cases, agents were not only asking questions that kept the detainees from entering the country but taking action that could revoke their residency.
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They did this at DFW too. Who instructed the agents to do this?
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LAX immigration agents asked detainees to sign away their legal residency status, attorneys say (Original Post)
deminks
Jan 2017
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lindysalsagal
(20,687 posts)1. And they claimed it was done too swiftly to be done right. B.S
They had time to turn this into an attempt at removing their rights, altogether.
Someone knew this was the point before the EO was written.
That person is puppetting fRump. He's too dumb to come up with something this complicated.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)2. Those actions by immigration agents are deplorable. I hope the courts invalidate
all such documents signed in the absence of legal representation for the immigrants.