Kelley filed an emergency petition asking for Tipan Echeverria and his daughter’s release around 5:37 p.m. Thursday, less than five hours after they were taken into ICE custody, the affidavit states. About 40 minutes later, she filed a motion asking a judge to stop the transfer of Tipan Echeverria outside Minnesota and to order the release of the child.
Over the next several hours, Kelley placed numerous calls to ICE counsel to bring their attention to the filings, but said she did not receive a response.
At 8:11 p.m. on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Kathy Menendez enjoined ICE from removing the father and child from Minnesota. She also issued an order to release the child to the family’s attorney no later than 9:30 p.m., citing “irreparable harm” of keeping her in custody, the affidavit states.
ICE informed the court after the fact that Tipan Echeverria and his daughter had been placed on a commercial flight to Texas at 8:30 p.m.
Bold to test a judge’s willingness to apply sanctions.
I’m sure there’s already many sources tracking this stuff. The issue is that nothing is happening to the people doing the bad stuff.
People who watch Fox News and the like are never shown things like this. They are only given stories about alledged violent criminals being captured, when that is only a tiny fraction of the people being deported. The vast majority actually being people simply trying to provide for their families who have no criminal history, innocent children, people granted legal asylum, people with valid work or tourist visas, and even people currently going through immigration court to obtain legal citizenship.
People who watch faux news aren’t going to read a blog that goes against their perceived reality. Such a blog would never reach their eyes, and if it did they would close them.
For historical reasons. One day all of this will pass and we need to look back and able to filter out the noise. Not to link, but just to organize and catalog
Not if Americans are just waiting for it “to pass.”
It’s still valuable work. It’s the truth, in a world where lots of people truly think that only appearances matter.