Citizenship Service helps ICE arrest immigrants during interviews on a green card
The American Civil Liberties Union claims a collusion between the US Citizenship and Immigration Services and the ICE agency to lure and arrest immigrants claiming legal status in the United States.
Lilian Calderon asked her daughter not to worry that she would not return. Calderon and her husband, Luis 17 January, went to an interview with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services in Rhode Island.
All they had to do was prove that their marriage was legal. This is the first step towards obtaining a green card. They took with them family photos, birth certificates of children and marriage documents. Louis has US citizenship. Calderon was undocumented. She was illegally brought from Guatemala to the USA when she was 3 of the year.
The interview was quick and without difficulty until an ICE agent appeared, after which it became clear to the woman that she would not return to her daughter's home.
The 30-year-old mother of three children detained the US Immigration Service and kept her in custody for almost a month. This case attracted the attention of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and was followed by class actions.
According to reports by federal officials, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services coordinated with ICE by arranging interviews with illegal immigrants who can be deported.
An ACLU from Massachusetts accuses the agency of conspiring to “lure” unsuspecting immigrants by inviting them to these interviews only for ICE to arrest them there. This happened to at least 17 people in the 2018 year, including Calderon. The ACLU claims that it violates immigrants ’rights to due process and the Immigrant Citizenship Act, among other things, for delaying immigrants before they can complete the process of obtaining legal status.
“The government created this process to get them a green card,” said Segal, legal director of the ACLU of Massachusetts. “The government cannot create this procedure and then arrest people for it.”
ICE office spokesman John Mohan said Wednesday morning that any allegations of “inappropriate coordination” between agencies were “unfounded.”
“This routine coordination at the Department of Homeland Security, unlike the collaborative efforts we maintain with many other federal partners, is legitimate in our work to protect our nation's immigration laws,” Mohan said.
Inter-agency letters published on Tuesday show that USCIS employees are planning to interview certain couples or other family members depending on the employment of ICE agents. When immigrants, their spouses, or family members appear, USCIS staff warns ICE. If ICE staff are late, ICE asks USCIS to postpone the interview.
As regards the Caldero case, she should have been deported since 2002, when her father was denied asylum. Then she was 15 years old. The process of obtaining a permanent residence began in the 2016 year, as changes have occurred in the USCIS rules. This allowed people to be deported to continue to apply for a green card without having to leave the country.
Previously, immigrants who were sent deportation orders were forced to return to their home countries for 10 years before they again have the right to legally return to the United States. Now immigrants can apply for refusal of deportation if they can prove that their absence in the United States for a long period of time will create “extreme difficulties” for their family. The purpose of changing USCIS rules was to eliminate or reduce long-term separation of families, which could have serious negative consequences for the children and spouses of immigrants living in the United States.
But the operation to detain ICE in USCIS offices negates these privileges, according to the ACLU.
“Essentially, the government is luring applicants on one hand and arresting them on the other,” the lawyers wrote in the lawsuit.
A hearing at the request of the federal government to end the lawsuit is scheduled for Monday.
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