DACA recipient whose renewal application was rejected due to postal delay has been detained by ICE
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Campaign Action Osman Enriquez, a 27-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient who was waiting for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to contact him about how to resubmit the DACA renewal application that was rejectedDACA recipient whose renewal application was rejected due to postal delay has been detained by ICE
Campaign Action Osman Enriquez, a 27-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient who was waiting for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to contact him about how to resubmit the DACA renewal application that was rejected in October through no fault of his own, is now sitting in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention and could face possible deportation: On Monday morning — six days before his son’s first birthday — as Enriquez drove down Route 83 to his contracting job, he was pulled over by a Pennsylvania State Police officer. The officer told him his vehicle registration had expired. Enriquez’s fiancée says the family thought they had kept their registration current; since Pennsylvania doesn’t put registration-date stickers on license plates, Carranza speculates that the only way the trooper would have known Enriquez’s registration had lapsed would be if she’d run his license plates when he drove by. Enriquez was ultimately issued a ticket not for the expired registration, but for his expired driver’s license. But in the meantime, Carranza says, the state police officer had called Immigration and Customs Enforcement to come pick up Enriquez. ICE agents took him to the York detention center and served him with a notice to appear in immigration court — formally starting deportation proceedings against him. “Two days later, Enriquez is still in detention,” writes Vox’s Dara Lind. “Unless something changes, he’ll miss his son’s birthday on Saturday.” Read more