US EditionACLU Seeks Release of Michigan Immigrant Held in Custody Despite Life-Threatening Leukemia
The ACLU challenges a Trump-era policy denying bond hearings to immigrants without criminal records, highlighting the impact on a 33-year-old father with life-threatening leukemia.
- Federal authorities refuse to release a Michigan man in a pending deportation case, despite his life-threatening leukemia and inconsistent health care while in custody since August, his lawyer said Thursday.
- His detention is a consequence of the Trump administration's policy of refusing to agree to bond hearings for immigrants if they entered the U.S. illegally, even if they lack a criminal record.
- The ACLU filed a petition Monday in U.S. District Court in Detroit, asking a judge to order bond hearings for the man and seven other people who are in custody.
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Federal authorities are refusing to release a Mexican immigrant detained in Michigan with a pending deportation case, despite the fact that he has a life-threatening condition of leukemia and the fact that he has received inconsistent medical attention since his arrest in August, his lawyer said Thursday.
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ACLU seeks release of Michigan immigrant held in custody despite life-threatening leukemia
Lawyers say federal authorities are keeping a Michigan man in custody in a deportation case, despite his life-threatening leukemia.
ACLU of Michigan files lawsuit in federal court for due process of detained Michigan residents
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrest a fugitive in 2020. | Photo via U.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementThe ACLU of Michigan filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Sept. 29 seeking bond hearings for, and the release of, eight Michigan residents currently in immigration detention. The lead defendant in the case is Jose Daniel Contreras-Cervantes, a father of three who was diagnosed la…
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