Cal State LA Student Sues DHS Over DACA Denial

2MoreYears · 10-30-2018, 06:33 PM

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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – A Mexican woman and Cal State Los Angeles student has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security alleging that DHS rejected her DACA application as an act of retaliation following her high-profile arrest last year and her immigrant rights activism.

Claudia Rueda, 23, and her attorneys held a news conference Tuesday morning in downtown L.A. to announce that she is suing DHS over its “unjust denial” of her Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) application.

Rueda claims that the only difference between her application and those of other immigrants approved for DACA status is her “political speech and activism” against the department’s immigration policies, according to the lawsuit filed in Los Angeles federal court.

On May 18, 2017, Rueda was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents on immigration charges outside her Boyle Heights home in connection with what the USBP said was a drug smuggling investigation.

Rueda’s arrest came a month after her mother, Teresa Vidal-Jaime, was also arrested and released on immigration violations in connection with the same investigation. Neither Rueda nor her mother ever faced drug charges.

In June of 2017, after spending three weeks in DHS custody in San Diego, an immigration judge ordered that Rueda be released after her attorney submitted a brief which included letters of support from the likes of L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti and U.S. Rep. Karen Bass (D- Los Angeles).

On Tuesday, Rueda said she still faces deportation proceedings at an immigration hearing expected at the end of next month.

“I’m not going to stay silent when I face and continue to face this legal violence and retaliation against my existence,” Rueda told reporters.

According to the lawsuit, the rejection of Rueda’s DACA application violated DHS’ internal policies because immigration authorities did not make a request for evidence or provide Rueda with a notice of their intent to deny her application.

The embattled DACA program, implemented by President Barack Obama in 2012, allows about 780,000 people who were brought to the U.S. as undocumented children to receive a permit that lets them continue to live and work here. The Trump administration attempted to end the program in September 2017, but his decision was overturned by the courts.

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018...er-daca-denial

Be careful.

JohannBernoulli1667 · 10-30-2018, 06:37 PM

It was stupid to believe that this would not happen...

Got_Daca · 10-30-2018, 07:59 PM

So she got denied because she was arrested for "political speech/protesting"?

jwxie518 · 10-30-2018, 08:35 PM

lol... good luck with this trial.

jaws · 02:56 AM

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lol... good luck with this trial.

I wanna say you're rude for being so crass. But I can't deny there is truth to your mockery. She was doing her best to help the community, but it might come at the cost of her own freedom.

jorgeag92 · 10-31-2018, 03:40 AM

she got arrested regardless. Thats all this administration is looking for. Any mistakes we make can be our ticket out of the country. be careful yall.

Got_Daca · 10-31-2018, 08:31 AM

We have ppl with misd DUI getting approval

Something is amiss

Pianoswithoutfaith · 11-01-2018, 03:21 PM

Got Daca was arrested, wait no no there was literally a warrant for his arrest because he failed to show up at court and hes been approved multiple times.

BestBefore1984 · 11-02-2018, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Pianoswithoutfaith

Got Daca was arrested, wait no no there was literally a warrant for his arrest because he failed to show up at court and hes been approved multiple times.

Clearly you live a life lacking excitement. You keep tabs on users on here like you must keep on your wife, you insecure prick.

Put the video games down a couple of hours a day and explore the outdoors. Lack of oxygen bouncing off inside that brain of yours, maybe if you went for a walk, you'd type English correctly, nigga.

Pianoswithoutfaith · 11-02-2018, 06:37 PM

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Clearly you live a life lacking excitement. You keep tabs on users

Okay............first of all, Got Daca and I are best of friends, we PM each other on a daily basis.

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on here like you must keep on your wife, you insecure prick.

Maybe you should take your own advice, shove up your ass and stop keeping a tab on me..? Jesus christ, how do you even know I am married? I never divulge that information here.

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Originally Posted by BestBefore1984

Put the video games down a couple of hours a day and explore the outdoors. Lack of oxygen bouncing off inside that brain of yours, maybe if you went for a walk, you'd type English correctly

Ill let you know my team of 5 personal doctors who keep me in check and in good health just like everyone else around, are making sure my oxygen levels are in adequate numbers.

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nigga.

you are not black, cut this shit out. Stop trying so hard to fit into some society you are not part of. What the hell is wrong with you?

They need you!

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