A federal judge in Oregon on Tuesday issued an order barring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from removing a Mexican asylum seeker from a Washington detention facility, according to local reports.
The migrant, a 24-year-old transgender woman identified as “O-J-M” in court documents, was arrested outside a Portland courtroom on Monday and transferred to the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington.
U.S. District Court Judge Amy Baggio, a President Joe Biden appointee, also demanded that ICE provide the exact date and time of the removal from Portland and explain why it was deemed immediately necessary.
Baggio’s order was prompted after O-J-M’s attorneys said they were not aware of their client’s location and filed a habeas petition, a legal request asking a court to determine whether a person’s detention or imprisonment is lawful.
The migrant’s attorney, Stephen Manning, of Immigrant Law Group, told OPB that O-J-M was processed into the Tacoma detention center, but he had not been granted access to her since her transfer.
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