"Last month, a 20-year-old Guatemalan man who came to the United States when he was 2 years old was detained at a gas station by heavily armed men in black military-style uniforms, sent to Alligator Alcatraz, the notorious immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, and eventually ended up on a deportation flight back to Guatemala, according to a sworn declaration filed this week in San Diego federal court."
"Gelernt asked the judge to order the government to return the people it has deported and release those it has detained, as well as for an order requiring the government to provide an explanation anytime it detains any of the roughly 9,000 people with legal protections provided by the settlement. This is an extreme situation where these individuals are so traumatized, they went through so much, they negotiated a settlement that provides certain, specific rights, and now they're being removed, Gelernt told reporters outside court."
A 20-year-old Guatemalan man who arrived in the United States at age 2 was detained by heavily armed men, sent to Alligator Alcatraz, and deported to Guatemala despite legal protections under a class-action family-separation settlement. Attorneys from the ACLU say that the man and members of at least six families covered by the settlement have been deported in violation of the settlement and a San Diego judge's order. About two dozen other protected individuals have been detained, often while checking in with ICE. The ACLU asked the judge to return deported people, release detainees, and require explanations for detaining any of the roughly 9,000 protected individuals.
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