{"id":11787,"date":"2017-02-14T18:30:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T02:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/?p=11787"},"modified":"2017-02-15T08:08:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T16:08:07","slug":"daca-recipient-detention-feb14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/2017\/02\/14\/daca-recipient-detention-feb14\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement on Reported Detention of DACA Recipient"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row el_class=&#8221;holder&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1444345515294{margin-top: -90px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]<strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br \/>\n<\/strong>February 14, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONTACT<br \/>\n<\/strong>Juan Gastelum, <a href=\"mailto:gastelum@nilc.org\">gastelum@nilc.org<\/a>, 213-375-3149<\/p>\n<h1>Statement on Reported Detention of DACA Recipient<\/h1>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Media reports on Tuesday made public the case of Daniel Ramirez Medina, a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, who was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at his home in Seattle, Wash., last week.<\/p>\n<p>DACA, announced by the Obama administration in 2012, allows immigrant youth who were brought to the U.S. as children to live and work here temporarily if they meet certain requirements and pay a fee. President Donald Trump has not made clear what he intends to do with the program, but there have been no announced changes to DACA to date.<\/p>\n<p>Kamal Essaheb, policy and advocacy director at the National Immigration Law Center, issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is part of the chaos created by the Trump administration\u2019s recent actions undoing guidelines intended to provide clarity to field agents. The people ICE calls \u2018collateral\u2019 are in fact integral members of our communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople like Daniel came forward, submitted applications, passed background checks, and earned work authorization and a temporary reprieve from deportation. To detain him now isn\u2019t just senseless, it\u2019s cruel. President Trump and his Republican enablers in Congress have created a climate of fear in immigrant communities. Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly must take the reins and end the chaos now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p># # #[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1446077129866{margin-top: -15px !important;}&#8221;][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id=&#8221;sidebar-1&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner]\n[\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row el_class=&#8221;holder&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1444345515294{margin-top: -90px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text]FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 14, 2017 CONTACT Juan Gastelum, gastelum@nilc.org, 213-375-3149 Statement on Reported Detention of DACA Recipient WASHINGTON \u2014 Media reports on Tuesday made public the case of Daniel Ramirez Medina, a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, who was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11787"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11789,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11787\/revisions\/11789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nilc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}