SEATTLE (AP) - The Latest on federal court hearing regarding case over detained Seattle ’dreamer’ (all times local):
12:15 p.m.
A federal magistrate says he expects to rule early next week on whether to release a Mexican man who was arrested near Seattle despite his participation in a program to protect those brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
Daniel Ramirez Medina is asking a Seattle court to find that his arrest Feb. 10 violated his constitutional rights.
U.S. Magistrate Judge James P. Donohue said at a hearing Wednesday he wouldn’t immediately rule because the Justice Department improperly made a new argument in a brief filed Tuesday, leaving Ramirez’s attorneys little chance to respond.
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10:20 a.m.
A federal magistrate says he won’t issue a ruling immediately on whether to dismiss a case brought by a Mexican man who was arrested despite his participation in a program to protect those brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
Daniel Ramirez Medina is asking a Seattle court to find that his arrest Feb. 10 violated his constitutional rights and that he should be freed from custody.
Ramirez also wants the judge to declare that all of the so-called “dreamers” in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program have similar rights to their status.
U.S. Magistrate Judge James P. Donohue said at a hearing Wednesday he won’t immediately rule on the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the case.
Donohue said the Justice Department improperly included a new legal argument in a brief filed Tuesday that left Ramirez’s lawyers with no time to respond.
Donohue is also considering whether to release Ramirez from custody pending further proceedings.
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6 a.m.
Lawyers for a Mexican man detained by immigration officials despite his participation in a program designed to protect those brought to the U.S. illegally as children are once again asking for his release.
They planned to ask U.S. Magistrate Judge James Donohue to free 23-year-old Daniel Ramirez Medina at a hearing Wednesday in Seattle. Donohue has already once declined to release him, and the Justice Department says his case belongs in immigration court, not U.S. District Court.
Ramirez was arrested Feb. 10 by immigration agents who initially arrived to detain his father. He has no criminal history and twice passed background checks to participate in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Agents said he admitted being involved with gangs. His lawyers say that’s false. They want the federal court to rule that his detention violates his constitutional rights.
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