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
Sacramento City Leaders Urge ICE Release Omar Ameen, Arguing He Was Scapegoat For Trump Administration
CBS Sacramento 5/3/2021 Syndicated Local – CBS Sacramento
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) Sacramento city leaders have signed a letter urging the Department of Homeland Security to release Omar Ameen from custody.
Ameen, a refugee from Iraq who was living in Sacramento, was accused of killing an Iraqi police officer in 2014. He has been in US custody since 2018, but Ameen’s alleged involvement in the killing has been the subject of intense scrutiny.
Omar Ameen has been locked up and separated from his children for three years, and despite being exonerated of a bogus Iraqi accusation is now in ICE custody. It s time to bring him home.https://t.co/ooajPwbeCa
Mayor Steinberg, city council members call for Omar Ameen s release from ICE custody
Ameen is currently being held at an ICE facility in Bakersfield, according to his lawyers, awaiting an immigration hearing. Author: Staff (ABC10) Updated: 3:05 PM PDT May 3, 2021
SACRAMENTO, Calif. Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and city council members are calling for the release of Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen from ICE custody.
A federal judge ordered Ameen be released from jail after serving two years for the alleged 2014 murder of a police officer in his hometown of Rawah, Iraq.
“Ameen was in Turkey, not Iraq, on the day of the murder,” Judge Edmund Brennan wrote in his ruling, saying the government’s case “does not establish probable cause.”
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