The man has just fired his immigration case and his wife and 8 -year -old son were behind him when the agents surrounded, then handcuffed his outside of the court of the center of Los Angeles.
Erick Eduardo Fonseca Solorzano remained speechless. His wife panicked. Federal agents explained in Spanish that they would be put in accelerated elimination procedures.
Moments before Friday, Judge Peter A. Kim had issued a dismissal of his deportation case. Now his son watched with disbelief of the wide eye as the agents quickly dragged him to a service elevator and he was gone. The boy was silent, sticking near his mother, tears sprouting.
“This child will be traumatized for life,” said Lindsay Toczylowski, executive and co -founder director of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, who communicated with the family to help them with their case.
Similar scenes are being carried out throughout the country, since government lawyers dismiss the cases of deportation of immigrants only for agents to arrest immediately, since they make the court room eliminate in a rapid route that does not imply a judicial review.
Court trials increase administration’s efforts to accelerate deportations. Migrants who cannot prove that they have a leg in the US. Uu. For more than two years they are eligible to be deported without a hearing before a judge. Historically, these accelerated motives were done alone at the border, but the Trump administration has tried to expand its use.
Policies are being challenged in court.
“Secretary [Kristi] The name is reversing the Biden’s capture and release policy that allowed millions of unprecedented illegal foreigners who were loose in US streets, “said a senior official of the National Security Department.
The official said that most immigrants who entered the US illegally in the last two years “are subject to accelerated moving.” But he pointed out that if they have a valid credible fear claim, as required by law, continuously in immigration procedures.
Toczylowski said it was the first appearance of Fonseca Solorzano in court. Like many of the detainees this week, Fonseca Solorzano arrived in the United States from Honduras through CPB One, an application configuration of the Biden administration that provided Asylum seekers One way to enter the legal country after going through a background verification.
More than 900,000 people They were allowed in the country in probation of immigration under the application, as of January 2023. The Trump administration has turned the tool into an application of self -sports.
“We are punishing the people who follow the rules, who are doing what the government asks them to do,” said Toczylowski.
“I think this practice certainly seemed to have shaken some of the court staff, because it is very unusual and because it is such a bad policy to do this, considering who points and the domain effects that it will have, it will make people be afraid of reaching courts.”
A Times reporter witnessed three sentences on Friday in the steps of the court without windows on the eighth floor of the federal building in the center. An agent with simple clothes in the courtroom went out to point to the agents in the hall, one with a red flannel shirt, when an immigrant subject to detention was about to leave.
“No, please,” Gabby Gaitan shouted, while half -box agents swarmed his boyfriend and handcuffed him. His Manila documents folder spilled on the floor. She wrinkled to the ground crying. “Where are he?”
Richard Pulido, a 25 -year -old Venezuelan, had arrived at the border last fall and appeared for the first time, he said. She had been afraid to attribute the Court’s Court, but she told her to miss her would worsen her situation.
Gaitan said that Pulido arrived in the United States last September after fleeing violence in his country of origin.
An immigrant from Kazakhstan, who asked the judge not to dismiss his case without success, left the courtroom. In a bank in front of the doors, two immigration agents nodded with each other and a mouth in the mouth “come on.”
They quickly stopped and called the man. They directed him to the side and behind the doors that led to a service elevator. He seemed defeated, with the body, while they looked for him, handcuffed and dragged him to the service elevator.
The lawyers, who were in the courts in Santa Ana and Los Angeles this week, say that it seems that the effort was highly coordinated between national security lawyers and federal agents. Families and lawyers have described similar accounts in Miami, Seattle, New York, San Diego, Chicago and other places.
Duration The Pulido Audience, National Security Lawyer, Carolyn Marie Thompkins, explicitly declared that the case would be dismissed because the government planned to deport Pulido.
“The government intends to continue with the accelerated elimination in this case,” he said. Pulido seemed confused about what a dismissal would mean and asked the judge clearly. Pulido opposed his case to fall.
“I feel that I can contribute a lot to this country,” he said.
Kim said it was not enough and dismissed the case.
Court’s judgments have frustrated the defenders of immigrants who say that the rules of the game are changing daily for migrants trying to work within the system.
“The Immigration Court must be a place where people will present their relief claims, make them evaluate, go up or down on whether they can stay and have done so in a way that provides due process,” Umigration said at the Center Schlender Atclub. “That is being started or every step.
“It is another attempt by the Trump administration to envive fear in the community. And specifically it seems to be pointing to people who are right, following exactly what the government has asked them to do,” he said.
