An Orange County immigration-rights activist who had led beef marches beyond California was taken into aegis and bedfast this week, and now is potentially adverse displacement hearings.
Luis Bravo, 22, was appear hours afterwards he was taken into aegis at his Costa Mesa home during the aboriginal morning hours Thursday, but again appear several hours after back supporters protested.
Two agents from Clearing and Customs Administration took Bravo to ICE's Santa Ana appointment "to be photographed and processed, and they able paperwork to admit displacement proceedings," said ICE backer Virginia Kice.
"It will be up to the clearing cloister to actuate whether Mr. Bravo has a acknowledged base to abide in the U.S.," according to a account appear by ICE.
Bravo, a coordinator with Orange County Congregation Association Organization and Immigrant Youth United, was taken into aegis based on a advance provided by ICE's Fugitive Operations Support Center, according to a account from ICE.
"He was arrested, actuality unlawfully, and because of a above-mentioned confidence for DUI he was targeted," Kice said.
Bravo was bedevilled of active beneath the access in May 2013. He says he was built-in in Mexico and is not a U.S. citizen.
Bravo's father, Enrique, a longtime immigrant-rights activist, said the two admiral did not analyze themselves as ICE agents. Bravo said they didn't ask for him back they went to his door.
"It was sneaky. He came up actuality allurement for addition else," Bravo said.
When Bravo went to the door, he said, agents went through a account of names and mug shots until they articular him. Agents again escorted him to an bare car but did not acquaint him what was happening, he said.
"You'll acquisition out back we get there," Bravo said an abettor told him.
Some association associates Thursday questioned whether the apprehension was a way to alarm the abrupt family. This is the aboriginal time a affiliate of the ancestors had been detained.
Two canicule afore he was detained, Bravo conducted a affair with Costa Mesa badge admiral absorption on architecture assurance amid law administration and the immigrant community.
Harold Pierce writes for Times Association News.
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Title : Immigration-rights activist bedfast in O.C., apparent for deportation
Description : An Orange County immigration-rights activist who had led beef marche...