Daniel Ramirez Medina was arrested at his father’s home south of Seattle Friday by agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to a lawsuit filed by civil rights lawyers in federal court in Seattle this week. An ICE spokeswoman said Ramirez faces deportation proceedings before a separate immigration judge. Ramirez was sleeping at his father’s home near Seattle when agents arrived and arrested his father, for whom they had an arrest warrant, the lawsuit says. At that point, the complaint says, agents took Ramirez to a processing center in Seattle, where he again informed authorities that he had a work permit. Ramirez’s attorneys said his “unprecedented and unjustified” arrest was a clear broken promise by the federal government.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 15, 2017 02:03 UTC