ICE still seeks to deport Iraqi refugee despite conclusion of innocence in killing
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Omar Ameen, formerly of Iraq, as he appeared in 2014 shortly after moving to the United States.U.S. District Court 2014
After 2½ years behind bars, refugee Omar Ameen was ordered released to his Sacramento home last month by a federal magistrate, who said he was innocent of the terrorist murder of a police officer in his native Iraq.
But Ameen was instead handed over to immigration officials, who have locked him up and are seeking to deport him on the same charges to a country where, his lawyers say, he would be tortured and executed.
Sacramento Mayor Steinberg, councilmembers call for ICE to release Omar Ameen
In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the Sacramento officials wrote that Ameen has been wrongly scapegoated by the Trump administration in an attempt to destroy the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program. Share Updated: 6:47 PM PDT May 3, 2021 Daniel Macht
Sacramento Mayor Steinberg, councilmembers call for ICE to release Omar Ameen
In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the Sacramento officials wrote that Ameen has been wrongly scapegoated by the Trump administration in an attempt to destroy the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program. Share Updated: 6:47 PM PDT May 3, 2021
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ICE detains Sacramento refugee cleared of terror charges
After a judge dismissed dubious charges of terror-linked murder against an Iraqi refugee, lawyers say he faces deportation for the same accusations. Author: Brandon Rittiman Updated: 5:54 PM PDT April 22, 2021
SACRAMENTO, Calif After spending more than two and a half years in Sacramento County Jail for murder, a federal judge says he couldn’t have committed, Uber driver and Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen was arrested by ICE agents just as he was set to be freed.
Ameen is currently being held at an ICE facility in Bakersfield, according to his lawyers, awaiting an immigration hearing on the same accusations he’d just been cleared of.