Thread: Seattle judge recommends 'dreamer' case be heard in federal court

Tue Mar 14, 2017 | 5:21pm EDT

Seattle judge recommends 'dreamer' case be heard in federal court

Daniel Ramirez Medina, 23, a Mexican immigrant with a work permit who was arrested last week near Seattle, Washington, U.S. is seen in this undated photo released on February 16, 2017. Courtesy Manny Rivera/Rally/Handout via REUTERS


A Seattle federal judge on Tuesday recommended that his court hear the case of a Mexican immigrant with a work permit who is challenging his arrest by U.S. immigration authorities in February.

In a report filed in district court, U.S. Magistrate Judge James Donohue recommended denying the U.S. government's motion to dismiss the case brought by Daniel Ramirez Medina, a so-called dreamer who came to the United States illegally with his parents when he was around 10 years old.

The term "dreamers" refers to about 750,000 immigrants brought to the country illegally as children, who have been afforded some protection from deportation under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program.

Under U.S. law, deportation cases must be heard by immigration courts, which are administered by the Department of Justice. But Ramirez Medina's attorneys say he is entitled to challenge the circumstances of his arrest in federal court.

The judge did not weigh in on the merits of the case, but recommended in a report that the case should proceed on an expedited schedule, with Ramirez Medina remaining in custody pending court action.

The report was not a final ruling and the judge required that objections to its recommendations be filed by March 28.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...-idUSKBN16L2N8

I'm trying to get my head around the idea that if you were brought here as a child, that means you should get to stay here.

They say it is no fault of their own - that's true.
So?? That doesn't make them less illegal. Maybe less culpable - but no less illegal.

They say they have roots here. They were taken from a country where they truly had roots, cultural, ancestral, roots. Why is it so bad to send them back.