Another Portland "Dreamer" in ICE Detention Following Accident

This is the case of the other Dreamer being detained by ICE in Portland besides the one that was detained due to a DUI.

March 29, 2017 - Immigrants’ rights groups said today another Portland “dreamer” is being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Tacoma detention center, 21-year-old Emmanuel Ayala Frutos. He was picked up by ICE from his home in North Portland early Sunday morning without a warrant. The groups said that Ayala Frutos has serious health issues that they worried were being ignored by ICE officials.

Mat dos Santos, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon (ACLU of Oregon), said he was concerned that Ayala Frutos was not allowed to bring his medication to control his bipolar disorder or his wheelchair with him to ICE detention.

“This is an awful, inhumane case,” dos Santos said. “Emmanuel should be recovering at home with his family, not locked away without his medication in Tacoma. His family said that ICE agents would only let him bring his leg brace, but they insisted he be allowed to bring his walker.”

In February, Ayala Frutos was discharged from Legacy Emmanuel hospital following a six week stay after being struck by a car while riding his skateboard. Both his legs were were broken and he underwent surgeries.

“Emmanuel is in pain and at serious risk of injury,” said Ian Philabaum, an immigrant rights advocate at Innovation Law Lab. “ICE showed up early Sunday morning, without a warrant, and tricked a struggling young man from his home by telling him they were going to talk about this DACA status.”

Ayala Frutos has lived in Portland since the age of six and received Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in 2013. He was in the process of renewing his DACA, which had expired two weeks earlier. Ayala Frutos went in for his biometrics appointment just three days before he was detained.

In February, Ayala Frutos entered a plea in Clark County, Washington, for possessing and showing a butterfly knife in November. The judge found that because of the circumstances of the incident and because it was his sole offense, he was not a danger to the community. He has since completed an anger management program, attended all his court dates and required meetings.

“Removing Emmanuel from his family right now is cruel,” said Andrea Williams, executive director of Causa Oregon. “Emmanuel needs to be back at his home in Portland where he can heal and recover. His family is very worried. We all are very worried.”

Ayala Frutos was hospitalized twice in 2016 for mental health illnesses. Before being hospitalized, Ayala Frutos worked for Purdy, where he ran machinery at the paint brush manufacturing facility.

Ayala Frutos arrived in the United States at the age of six from Michoacan, Mexico. He has lived in the Portland area since 2002 and attended Sitton Elementary School, George Middle School, and Roosevelt High School.

His family said they are fearful that if Ayala Frutos is deported, he will be kidnapped and ransomed. His cousin was recently murdered and one of his uncles routinely receives death threats.

The immigrants’ rights groups encouraged families to call the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition hotline at (88 622-1510 or the ACLU of Oregon immigration hotline at (971) 412-2258 if they encounter ICE agents.

“If ICE shows up at your door without a warrant signed by a judge, you don’t have to open it to answer questions. If ICE claims to have a warrant, you should ask agents to slip it under the door or hold it up to a window,” said dos Santos.

The groups are calling on ICE to release Ayala Frutos and have asked community members to call ICE on his behalf at (253) 779-6000 x 14.

https://www.aclu-or.org/content/anot...-ice-detention

Yeah you don't go around showing a knife to people. I am all for immigrant rights but there is a line to cross.

If you are from Portland, seriously, just stay at home and only leave when you need to. They went from targeting DUIs to now possession. At this rate, ICE will expand to traffic tickets as well.

The lesson here is that if you're a citizen, you can do stuff like that^ and end up with just a slap on the wrist. Not us.

We're at risk of losing our DACA status and of subsequent deportation if we do this kind of "dumb stuff young people do."

Don't you guys dare breathe that Oregon air. They'll get you for theft! Bring your own oxygen tanks!

This is VERY good that ICE is targeting idiot DACAers.

Soon all idiot DACAers will be weeded out and only good, deserving DACAers will be left out.

No more embrassing DACA stories. We will be the Model Immigrants people want to have.

All the borderline idiot DACAers will put their shit together. They won't be drinking and driving. They will think twice before doing stupid shit.

Take me for example, I admit I did some risky stuff before. Not any fucking more!

So, if you mess up, its okay because now you know better and are part of the GOOD dreamers, but if someone e;se mess up, god forbids them getting another chance, like how you did. The only difference is that you weren't detained by ICE when you did that risky stuff.

You got DACA when so many deserving Dreamers aged out.

Well, you're lucky.

I was lucky in some stuff in life. But was very unlucky in others.

This is life.

Now, after all this DACA/DUI commotion if you STILL get a DUI and have your DACA stripped, it is all on you.

In 14 years I have lived in US, I probably engaged in risky stuff VERY few times. I can count them in one hand. There were no repeated habitual patterns that kept on happening again and again.

Now, there are not happening EVER again.

yeah, this isnt really relevant here, you brought yourself into this situation when you said this


had you simply not said this, we wouldn't be here talking how somehow its okay for you to mess up but not others.

Life is about doing risky things? Seriously....? Don't try to somehow turn you engaging in risky things as somehow being part of life but Hey!!

right?


So, it was numerous time you actively engaged in risky stuff. Not once, not even twice huh. Just not as bad as getting a DUI! But its okay because NOW after seeing what happens to very bad dreamers, NOW you are done fucking up.

No, it was never OK for me to engage in risky stuff. Never said it was OK for me, nor for anyone.

But it did happen. Am I glad that NOTHING happened? Yes.

Fuck man, are you really living life if you're not MILDLY risking it once in a while as a young person?

Did you follow your parents words to the letter ALWAYS? Did you always made it in before curfew? What sort of boring life are you leading?

Now I know perfectly what kind of thinking process is involved to do risky stuff. You think you're fine, but you're actually not.

I will say again, after Trump and after increased ICE raids, if you're STILL doing risky shit, you are fucking yourself up.