Official claimed Jose Hermosillo, who was visiting Arizona, was ‘without the proper immigration documents’

Summary

Immigration officials detained a US citizen for nearly 10 days in Arizona, according to court records and press reports.

On 8 April, a border patrol official found Hermosillo “without the proper immigration documents” and claimed that the young American had admitted entering the US illegally from Mexico.

On 17 April, a federal judge dismissed his case. “He did say he was a US citizen, but they didn’t believe him.”

“Under the Trump administration’s theory of the law, the government could have banished this U.S. citizen to a Salvadoran prison then refused to do anything to bring him back,” Mark Joseph Stern, a legal analyst for Slate, wrote on Bluesky. “This is why the Constitution guarantees due process to all. Could it be more obvious?”

  • entwine413@lemm.ee
    14·
    20 hours ago

    So the mailroom clerk was handpicked to be racist and cruel? I’m sure the custodial staff and maintenance crew were handpicked to be racist and cruel too, right?

    • Wilco@lemm.eeEnglish
      31·
      11 hours ago

      ICE has “direct hire authority”. This means they can fill positions without any justification of their hiring process or that the competitive hiring process was used. This is NOT how the government is supposed to operate. The mail room clerks are all going to be family and friends of existing ICE employees. The cleaning staff will be from a 3rd party.

      ICE is all hand picked and hand groomed evil, a new Nazi SS in its infancy.