First Denied Entry With Advance Parole From Mexico.

https://thebeaconnews.org/stories/20...uzfnjpPvrl45GQ

A DACA recipient from Roeland Park has sued the Trump administration after he was not allowed to reenter the United States.

Evenezer Cortez Martinez wanted to pay respects to a beloved grandfather who died last fall.

He ended up deported, sent back to Mexico, a country the 39-year-old Kansas husband and father left at the age of 4.

“Everything was approved, and I arrived here with no problem,” said Cortez Martinez, a DACA recipient, in a phone interview from Cuernavaca, a city south of Mexico City.

On March 23, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials stopped Cortez Martinez at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport as he presented documents to board a flight back to Kansas City.

He was held, questioned and put on a flight to Mexico City that evening.

“I asked them, ‘Can I just call my lawyer and try to see if I can work things out,’” Cortez Martinez said. “They said, ‘No, you don’t have that option.’”

U.S. Immigration officials do not generally comment on specific cases.

But in a statement released to NPR recently, Customs and Border Protection argued it was merely enforcing the law.

“Those who violate these laws will be processed, detained, and removed as required,” CBP Assistant Commissioner Hilton Beckham said in the statement.

Customs agents in Dallas told Cortez Martinez that he had been ordered removed in absentia on June 11, 2024, and that his documents to travel had been issued in error.

Cortez Martinez said he had never been notified of a removal order, which is the legal term for what most people colloquially refer to as deportation.

dont you like have to commit a serious crime to be ordered removed? why was his DACA allowed to be renewed? why was his AP approved in the first place?

“Under current regulations, a holder of an Advance Parole document cannot be barred from the country (removed) without a formal removal hearing before an Immigration Judge,” the suit states.

-"uNdEr cUrReNt rEgUlAtIoNs"

looks like any idiot can become an immigration lawyer nowadays smfh. in the AP docuemnts it CLEARLY states that ADMISSION IS NOT GUARANTEED. it even has big bold red letters. smfh

No. During the Obama days they mostly left you alone unless the local authorities handed you over after you got arrested. But you need to get it into your thick lead infused skull that only thing they need to put you in removal proceedings is for you to be here illegally, have violated your status, or have the government not like you (like all those people who got arrested for protesting for Palestine, including some who were permanent residents).

That being said, wouldn't be surprised if they magicked a removal order out of thin air while he was abroad. Immigration courts pretty much can't be trusted anymore, they're article I courts that are subservient to the AG and as such to the President.

Now he could've ended up in removal proceedings for any number of reasons (caught on entry, bad luck, applied for something (asylum, AOS, etc) and got denied). Still, I doubt that neither him nor the lawyer checked on eoir's website how his removal proceedings look like when he was about to head out unless there were no removal proceedings to begin with and the NTA and everything else mysteriously materialized out of nowhere.

ordered removed in absentia on June 11, 2024