The deportation of a New York man who was scheduled to be put on a flight to Honduras early Monday morning has been halted, his attorney confirmed toJavier Castillo Maradiaga, 27, who arrived in the U.S. aged seven, was arrested for a pedestrian violation in 2019.reported, but Maradiaga was taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement .
His attorney Rebecca Press, the Legal Director of UnLocal, a nonprofit that offers free representation to New York City's immigrant communities, said he was in a federal detention center in Louisiana on Sunday and expected to be put on a plane at 2 a.m. on Monday.
Hundreds of people gather in lower Manhattan for a"Lights for Liberty" protest against migrant detention camps and raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in various cities on July 12, 2019 in New York City.Maradiaga's plight made headlines and drew protesters to Manhattan's Foley Square on Sunday.
"The only crime that he had committed was the crime to live a dignified life," his mother Alma Maradiago said, according to the"The 14 months that he's been detained, I've been an essential worker in the hospitals cleaning, doing everything I can do for my child.""We received information [Sunday] evening that Javier was not to be deported," Press said."Javier called a while later and confirmed he had been told the same.
In a statement, the agency said it has initiated a 100-day pause on"certain removals" effective January 22 following the memo issued by the"The pause on removals applies to those present in the U.S. with a final order of removal, with certain exceptions as described in the memo. The pause on removals does not apply to individuals who entered the United States on or after November 1, 2020," the statement said.
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