- Portland Occupier
- Diana Banda’s arrest
Two of the four arrested undocumented rallying immigrants have been released from the Multnomah County Jail—and it looks like the others will shortly join them. But not with a clean record.
During yesterday’s permitted May Day rally, a group of undocumented immigrants staged a rally against Obama’s Secure Communities program (which has previously rubbed the community the wrong way) and called for the release of their fellow undocumented friend who is currently in the Tacoma, WA Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Detainment Center. Four of the protesters were arrested, upon request, and sent to Multnomah County Jail.
“It gets to a point where you have to step out from the shadow and realize that no one is going to do anything if you don’t do it,” says Diana Banda, who was released within two hours yesterday but said she was prepared to be deported.
Two of the ralliers were released with dropped charges yesterday, leaving the other two to deal with county charges and an ICE hold (meaning their fingerprints were sent to the federal ICE headquarters). While a trial in the community court today dropped these remaining detainees’ charges, Judge Terry Hannon said that they are still being held with other charges.
What does that mean, exactly? Attorney Kenneth Kreuscher says that Liliana Luna and Ricardo Valera are currently placed on ICE hold, even though their charges were dropped. However, he says, both are slated to be released by tomorrow. But this doesn’t mean that their ICE file will be dropped.
“It’s crazy,” says National Immigrant Youth Alliance’s Mohammad Abdollahi. “Secure Communities is meant to target people who are criminals. These people’s charges have been dropped, but their fingerprints are still going to ICE. Something’s wrong here.“
“During yesterday’s permitted May Day rally, a group of undocumented immigrants staged a rally against Obama’s Secure Communities program (which has previously rubbed the community the wrong way rubbed the community the wrong way) and called for the release of their fellow undocumented friend who is currently in the Tacoma, WA Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Detainment Center.”
ARE YOU SAYING THAT THE ACTIONS OF THE UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS RUBBED THE COMMUNITY THE WRONG WAY OR THAT THE SECURE COMMUNITIES PROGRAM RUBBED THE COMMUNITY THE WRONG WAY?
So nice, she wrote it twice.
Look, if you’re going out getting arrested on purpose, you can’t come back and complain about the repercussions (though is sounds like Mr. Abdollahi is the one doing the complaining). What would be the point of NOT sending the prints to ICE? They admitted they’re undocumented immigrants and they had their prints taken. That seems like a no-brainer.
That said, good for these kids. Immigrants in this country really know what it’s like to struggle. They should have waited out the protest fantasy folks and held a real, focused rally on Cinco de Mayo.
Alex’s penchant for typos has gone from mockingly funny to just sad, so very sad.
I hope more illegals turn themselves in. Sounds good to me. A good start. Only 11,999,996 to go.
One day they will come for the clowns, then where will you be, crusty?
Gotta go with Crusty on this one.
Crusty, the 12 millions illegals you refer to are only the ones with a job. There are a lot more than that in the country.
lol, well she’s documented now!