Derlis Snaider Chusin Toaquiz, 19 -year -old Ecuadorian student, Queens; and Edwin Velásquez Muñoz, Peruvian with special needs of 31 years, of Long Island, will be able to be released from the immigrant detention centers of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE), after weeks of uncertainty and suffering due to their unfair arrest in the midst of the antimigracy policy of Republican President Donald Trump.
Chusin Toaquiz, arrested when he went to an appointment in an immigration court in New York for his asylum request, will be released on bail of $ 20,000 in the next few days, according to his lawyers.
Chusin Toaquiz is in an ICE installation in Livingston, Texas, since June 8, four days after being arrested after having attended the appointment at the Court in Manhattan.
At the time of his judicial arrest on June 4, he became the second student of a public school in New York City to be arrested by ICE agents after a scheduled immigration hearing.
The New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG, for acronym in English) that it represented indicated in a statement that at a hearing on Monday, July 14, the Court approved its release prior payment of a bail of $ 20,000, which was already deposited on Tuesday by Invision Freedom Fund (formerly Brooklyn Community Bail Fund).
Nylag obtained the bail audience thanks to the request for habeas corpus amended that Nylag presented earlier this month. Subsequently, New York City presented a writing Amicus Curiae supporting Nylag’s request for the immediate release of Derlis, who is expected to be released in the next few days.
«We are more than excited that Derlis soon returns home in New York to be with his family. At the same time, our happiness does not erase the fact that he was unfairly arrested, separated from his family and his community, and held in a prison with unknown adult men for more than a month, ”said lawyer Rebecca Rubin of New York Legal Assistance Group.
He also pointed out that the Ecuadorian young man, who is in the 11th. Degree at Grover Cleveland High School in Ridgewood, Queens County, where he lives, was fulfilling his asylum requirements that he had asked together with his family, and that was the reason that had taken him to the court where he was unfairly arrested.
Unfair arrests
According to Nylag, the Peruvian Edwin Velásquez Muñoz will also be released on bail, with auditory and developmental disabilities, who lived in Long Island with his sister and his cousin, his main legal guardians, when he was arrested on July 2, while also attending an immigration audience.
Velásquez Muñoz that will also be on bail paid by Envision Freedom Fund, is detained in the federal prison in Brooklyn, “known for its horrible, barbarian, inhuman conditions,” according to its lawyers.
«It was not until after his bail audience (Monday) that Nylag was able to visit him, and he could rarely communicate with his family. ICE ignored Nylag’s repeated attempts to confirm its location for more than a week, ”they said in the statement.
Before being taken to the centers where they are now, Chusin Toaquiz and Velásquez Muñoz spent days jailed in a superpobiled detention room in the Federal Building in Manhattan, where it places the ICE headquarters in New York.
(With Nylag and EFE report)
