#ice-arrests

#ice-arrests

I want my husband back, Matthew Marrero declared outside Middle Collegiate Church, located at 50 East 7th St. in the East Village, on Tuesday afternoon with tears in his eyes. He stood clutching the hand of his attorney, surrounded by members of his congregation and supporters, as they rallied to demand that ICE free Marrero's husband, Allan Dabrio Marrero, from their custody.

"The government's defense appears to be that the individuals behind these statements are ignorant or incompetent, or both," Howell wrote in her 88-page order. "This defense puts a new twist on the old saying, 'I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do,' by asserting the position 'don't believe either what we say or what we do, just trust whatever we tell you now.'"

That data also reveals that ICE arrests across Northern California have more than tripled this year. A Mission Local analysis of data released from the Deportation Data Project, a group of researchers based at the University of California, Berkeley, shows that 48 percent of the people arrested by ICE across Northern California in September had no criminal background, while 39 percent had a criminal conviction. The remaining 14 percent had pending criminal charges.

Family members greeted Emma De Paz with tears, hugs, signs and bouquets of flowers on Monday when federal immigration agents freed her after four months of detention. As she stepped out of the SUV that had ferried her to her home in East Hollywood from the Adelanto Detention Center, she already was holding her arms wide to hug loved ones welcoming her back.

An Ecuadorian man who asked to remain unnamed while his open immigration case unfolds stood with his wife, Gloria, as he showed amNewYork a GPS monitor wrapped around his ankle. This partial freedom came with a significant cost to the family $20,000 despite the man having no criminal record. Gloria's husband arrived in the US from Ecuador in 2023. When he walked into an immigration appointment in Malta, NY, he thought he was following the rules and complying with the law.

This morning, an attorney representing the Department of Homeland Security moved to dismiss the cases of all five asylum-seekers, at the court at 630 Sansome St. Mission Local has heard DHS lawyers in the courtroom on multiple occasions say that they move to dismiss asylum cases with the express goal of putting immigrants into expedited removal. Judge Patrick O'Brien did not immediately grant the government's motion.

Nneka Jackson, an attorney at the Law Offices of Nneka Jackson, recalled what she felt was an intimidation process as soon as she arrived at 26 Federal Plaza. You go into the courtroom, you see multiple agents with their face covers. You see guns, you see handcuffs It's a very intimidating presence, because there's so many of them, and they're literally waiting outside the courtroom for people to get their cases dismissed, Jackson said.

On Tuesday, Flores sat down with the Bay Area News Group and detailed the terrifying morning Monday when he narrowly escaped arrest himself and filmed his wife who has a blood condition passing out as ICE agents handcuffed her. She remained at Stanford Medical Center Tuesday with federal agents blocking her door. His nephew was taken to a federal detention center in Bakersfield, he said. I'm just completely stressed and drained about it, Flores said.

Speculating as to the reason why the number has declined, Lander reasoned that it could be the result of a temporary restraining order barring ICE from holding detainees in cramped and unhygienic conditions on the 10th floor of the Federal Plaza building. The conditions came to light through a video secretly recorded in July showing 10th-floor detainees within cramped conditions, with people sleeping on the ground in dirty, unwashed clothes. The video further showed the people located near a shared toilet with no privacy.

A 7-year-old Queens girl and her family were arrested by ICE while attending a court hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, marking the first known instance of this happening.

Petunia, a 2-year-old hairless French bulldog mix, won first prize at Sonoma's World's Ugliest Dog Contest and will appear on The Today Show soon.

The lawsuit seeks to reverse ICE's policies under the Administrative Procedure Act, a federal law that governs how agencies create and enforce regulations.

ICE arrested an SF Guatemalan man who showed clear signs of mental illness after his immigration hearing Thursday, and was muttering to himself throughout his hearing.