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Trump's ICE IGNORES COURT ORDER in SHOCKING MOVE!!!
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9:21Now PlayingAttorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian cover the case of Rafael Rubio, a New York City Council data analyst and former Venezuelan lawyer who spent 158 days in ICE detention after showing up for a routine asylum interview on Long Island. Rubio had Temporary Protected Status, a pending asylum application, and no criminal convictions. An immigration judge initially deemed his asylum application "abandoned" over a missing signature and ordered him deported. His lawyers were offered no chance to correct it. The Bronx Defenders reopened the case, and on May 27 a second judge granted Rubio asylum. ICE still refused to release him. A federal judge ordered a new bond hearing, set bond at $5,000, and when ICE still didn't comply, the Bronx Defenders filed to enforce the order. Rubio walked out of Delaney Hall on Juneteenth. DHS responded by calling him "a criminal illegal alien" and filing an appeal of his asylum grant on June 22. At Delaney Hall, guards taunted him: "Are you a socialist?" and "Why isn't your boss coming to rescue you?" Brian connects this to the Supreme Court's TPS ruling: even if TPS is revoked, an asylum grant supersedes it. A future administration could extend TPS back with the same insulation from legal challenges.
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