A Salvadoran woman's recent lawsuit alleging immigration authorities locked her up for months despite her protected status highlights how authorized immigrants, and sometimes even U.S. citizens, can wind up being wrongfully detained, and how, with no right to counsel in immigration proceedings, it can prove difficult to free them.
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Maya Rose Bliffeld s family is separated.
Not at the U.S.-Mexico border, but in middle America, where immigration officials are detaining her biological mother despite Biden administration policies allowing for her release.
Sara Mendez-Morales, 33, is an indigenous Guatemalan woman who doesn t know if or when she ll be released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention in Butler County Jail near Cincinnati, where she s been since August. Or if she ll ever again see her younger children, 4- and 12-year-old girls, now in foster care.
But Bliffeld, Columbus-area advocates and Mendez-Morales immigration attorney are fighting for her release. They say ICE keeping her detained goes against the federal agency s own policies and is immoral.
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Advocates Tell Justices Migrant Detention Defies Treaty Vows
Law360 (December 16, 2020, 7:00 PM EST) Immigration advocacy organizations told the U.S. Supreme Court that detaining immigrants seeking protection in the country after having been previously deported runs counter to the U.S. international treaty commitments to protect human rights.
The American Immigration Council, the Legal Aid Society and a bevy of other immigration groups told the high court in an amicus brief Tuesday that previously deported immigrants who reenter the country and have pending claims for protection are entitled to a bond hearing under an interpretation of the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act in line with the United Nations Convention Against Torture.