'Dreamer' with DACA has been detained by ICE for a year
A father living in Florida, JeanCarlos Fiallos Manzanares, was detained by ICE when he was on his way to drop his son off at school.
JeanCarlos Fiallos Manzanares, a resident of Miami Gardens, Florida, has been in detention by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) for a year, despite being a beneficiary of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
Fiallos Manzanares was arrested last summer and sent to the Otero County Processing Center in New Mexico, nearly 2,000 miles from his home.
Although Fiallos Manzanares' defense filed a lawsuit against ICE for the detention considered unjust, his case has not advanced.
“The JeanCarlos case highlights the blatant efforts to nullify the protections of the DACA program and expel hundreds of thousands of people from their status and their homes,” criticized the Home is Here movement.
The movement criticizes that while JeanCarlos remains detained, two amendments that would have addressed the growing delays in DACA renewal applications and would have limited the actions of ICE agents against the 'Dreamers' were rejected in the Senate.
According to the organization, so far the immigration agency has detained 340 people with DACA, of whom it has deported about 90.
President Donald Trump's administration is facilitating the deportation of 'Dreamers' with DACA, following a new decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), which establishes that being a beneficiary of such a program is not sufficient reason to avoid deportation.
The BIA's public decisions set precedents and set the tone for how immigration judges across the country should make decisions, which is why the Dreamers directive is concerning among those who defend them.
"JeanCarlos is a husband, father of two children, and his only home has always been here. However, for more than a year, he has been detained and separated from his family, despite having valid and current DACA status. His continued detention is a direct attack on the protections that DACA was created to provide," Home is Here said.
The movement believes that the federal government is “ignoring and violating DACA protections without consequences” and warned that a few days before the 14th anniversary of that protection program created by President Barack Obama.
Dreamers advocates urge Congress to pass the Dream Act, which would create a path to citizenship for DACA recipients.
“Congress can no longer plead ignorance when DACA is being dismantled in plain sight,” the group added. "Providing a path to citizenship has failed. Now is the time to pass the DREAM Act and the Dream and Promise Act once and for all."
In addition to DACA, the Trump administration has sought to cancel the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of several countries, as well as those protections granted with 'parole', such as the humanitarian visa to people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

