"Elias Perez-Zuazo, a Panamanian national, was taken into ICE custody in December after arriving at an agency office in Chantilly, Virginia, for a scheduled appointment he had attended without incident in prior years, according to a report by local NBC affiliate WRC. His U.S. citizen husband, Jonathan Blanco Gallegos, told WRC that the meeting, which was expected to last less than an hour, stretched for several hours before an agent returned Perez-Zuazo's personal belongings and informed him that his husband had been detained."
"In a statement to WRC, Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said Perez-Zuazo had been ordered removed by an immigration judge and was "released into this country by the Biden administration," adding that the agency "is not going to ignore the rule of law." Perez-Zuazo's attorney disputes that claim and has filed a habeas corpus petition in federal court challenging the legality of his detention."
""They just take him away, and your life's put on pause," Blanco Gallegos told the station. Perez-Zuazo entered the United States in November 2021 and was processed at the southern border before being released to pursue his immigration case. The couple married in February 2024 and had begun applying for a green card - a path Blanco Gallegos said they believed would allow his husband to remain in the country legally."
A Panamanian national, Elias Perez-Zuazo, was taken into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody during a scheduled check-in at an agency office in Chantilly, Virginia. He had entered the United States in November 2021, been processed at the southern border, and released to pursue his immigration case. Perez-Zuazo and his U.S. citizen husband married in February 2024 and began applying for a green card. Department of Homeland Security stated that an immigration judge ordered his removal and that he had been released into the country by the administration. Perez-Zuazo's attorney filed a habeas corpus petition, and a federal judge barred removal from the district while reviewing the detention.
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