LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A person who was being held within the Clark County Detention Heart has been turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in violation of a court docket order to ship him to an inpatient therapy facility, in accordance with the ACLU of Nevada.
A doc filed on Thursday signifies Sergio Morais-Hechavarria, 36, was launched on to ICE on Oct. 16 and despatched to a station on the U.S.-Mexico border, days after an ACLU lawsuit was filed to problem the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division’s settlement to carry individuals at ICE’s request.
Morais-Hechavarria had been in jail with no specified date for launch since he was arrested on June 17 on a cost of making an attempt to own a stolen automobile.
At sentencing, a district choose ordered Morais-Hechavarria to finish his sentence at an inpatient therapy facility. However ICE put a maintain request in and Metro has honored it.
“A person shouldn’t rot in a detention facility when ordered into treatment because the federal government has pressured local governments and local police into complicity with a disastrous, destabilizing, and destructive approach to immigration enforcement,” ACLU of Nevada Government Director Athar Haseebullah mentioned in an Oct. 13 information launch.
“ACLU of Nevada remains committed to building a firewall for freedom that all Nevadans, including the ones who despise us, can benefit from as the federal government continues to try to find ways to erode civil liberties and due process,” Hasseebullah mentioned.
The ACLU is representing Morais-Hechavarria within the case, however his legal professional, Sadmira Ramic, was by no means notified of his launch.
Earlier than he was allowed to speak to his lawyer, Morais-Hechavarria was despatched out of state to the El Paso (Texas) Service Processing Heart. His lawyer realized that he had been launched when she went to go to him on the detention middle.
