Obama Administration Denies Legal Immigrants Release from Immigration Custody

(LegalLaw247.com, January 28, 2012 ) York, Penn - With two years of continued immigration detention behind him, President Barack Obamas Administration refused to release Robert Bautista from confinement at the York Immigration Detention Facility. Bautista, a long-time Easton, Pennsylvania resident, father of three and a Lawful Permanent Resident for over twenty-five years must remain incarcerated for years, while his deportation case works its way through the immigration appellate court system.

After losing two years of his life in what our President refers to as civil confinement, Mr. Bautistas family made several desperate requests that the Department of Homeland Security exercise its statutory authority to release him, said Raymond Lahoud, Bautistas lead attorney, the Government strongly opposed Mr. Bautistas requests, arguing that he has absolutely no rights, regardless of his years of being every bit American as the President himself.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement took Bautista into custody in 2010, given his 2003 conviction for Attempted Arson in the Third Degree a minor offense in New York that carried a minimal criminal penalty. Since immigration took him into custody, federal authorities have detained Bautista, pending the outcome of his deportation proceeding, which has now reached the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Bautista is challenging the clear errors of law the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) as well as the lower-Immigration Court made when deciding Mr. Bautista's initial immigration case and subsequent appeal to the BIA. The BIA held the first oral argument since 2008 when reviewing Bautistas case, recognizing the cases importance to the deportation defense system.

For two years, three, young American citizen children, an American citizen wife, mother, brother and hundreds of friends, have been deprived of being with their loved one, said Lahoud, an attorney at the Pennsylvania based Immigration Law and Deportation Defense Firm, Baurkot & Baurkot. Mr. Bautista was earning a substantial amount of money, was paying taxes and supporting his children. Then, years after a minor conviction, the Department of Homeland Security suddenly arrested our Client and his familys life tumbled: they lost their business, home, father and husband, noted Lahoud.

Requests to release Mr. Bautista have not succeeded. In a response to a recent habeas petition Bautistas attorneys filed at the Federal District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, which demanded his release, the Obama Administration noted that Bautista has no rights, given that he was arrested after his return from a short vacation abroad. The Court agreed with the Governments position. Bautistas attorneys then filed a formal request for parole (release) with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The federal executive department refused to release Bautista. Responding to Bautistas request for release, the Obama Administration, through Immigration and Customs Enforcement, wrote, in a letter, that the federal government is sympathetic to Bautistas cause, but, nonetheless, without any real explanation, ordered Bautista to remain indefinitely detained at the Governments expense. Bautista's case is currently pending before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
For more information on Mr. Lahoud and his immigration law firm, please visit NationalImmigrationLawyers.com.

Attorney Raymond Lahoud is a member of the national attorney network on LawyerCentral.com.

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