DACA Recipient Charged With Illegally Re-Entering the U.S.

bad.bunny · 11:30 PM

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LOS ANGELES—A Mexican man who earlier this year sued the Trump administration, alleging he had been unlawfully deported, was arrested this week and charged with illegally re-entering the U.S.

Juan Manuel Montes Bojorquez, 23 years old, was arrested near Calexico, Calif., along the Mexican border, on Monday, according to federal court records.

Mr. Montes, who dropped his lawsuit in October, will likely be deported, and he could face as long as two years in prison if found to have illegally re-entered the U.S. after being deported. He could also be barred from coming back to the U.S. for years.

The U.S. Border Patrol said Mr. Montes was found about a mile north of the U.S.-Mexico border in a scrub-covered stretch of desert. The arresting agent wrote that Mr. Montes told officials he was planning to go to Sacramento.

Mr. Montes sued the Trump administration in April, alleging that Border Patrol agents in Calexico arrested and deported him in February even though he had been protected from deportation under the Obama era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

U.S. Homeland Security officials said Mr. Montes returned to Mexico voluntarily, which caused him to lose his DACA privileges.

Mr. Montes was thought to be the first DACA recipient deported by the Trump administration. Mr. Trump has made cracking down on illegal immigration a top priority of his administration.

In September the Trump administration announced plans to end the DACA program, which has protected from deportation hundreds of thousands of young immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

Mr. Montes’s lawsuit initially sought public records about the incident and later was amended to include a challenge to his deportation. His lawyers asked that he be allowed to return to the U.S. while the case was pending, and a federal judge in San Diego seemed amenable to the request.

But the case was dropped in October at Mr. Montes’s request. The National Immigration Law Center said the “litigation has been a taxing experience” for Mr. Montes, and he decided to end the case and remain in Mexico.

According to court records, Mr. Montes is being detained in the Imperial County jail, southeast of Los Angeles. Federal court records don't list an attorney for Mr. Montes. The National Immigration Law Center, which helped represent Mr. Montes during his civil case, said its lawyers aren’t involved in the criminal case and couldn’t comment.

Arrests at the Mexican border have plummeted since President Donald Trump took office. As of the end of August, about 287,000 people were arrested at the Mexican border during the 2017 budget year that ended in September. During the 2016 budget year, agents made about 408,000 arrests.

Nonetheless, foreigners are still arrested on a daily basis trying to sneak into the U.S. In recent months, the price to cross the border with help from a smuggler has risen dramatically, and some migrants have taken to more risky paths into the U.S.

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/dac...u-s-1510175844

fl_dreamer · 11-08-2017, 11:27 PM

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Copper · 11-08-2017, 11:30 PM

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