Daniel Neyoy Ruiz, who took sanctuary Tuesday at Southside Presbysterian Church, will remain at the South Tucson church according to his attorney Margo Cowan, until she receives in writing from ICE that her client is “an excellent candidate for the favorable exercise of discretion and is not a priority for removal.”
Yesterday, an ICE spokesperson issues the following statement:
“After conducting a thorough review of Mr. Ruiz’s immigration case, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has decided to exercise prosecutorial discretion by not taking immediate action on Mr. Ruiz’s removal order.”
In response to ICE’s announcement, through a press release issued today by No More Deaths:
The statement acknowledges that Mr. Neyoy Ruiz is a low priority for removal, yet stops short of formally stopping his deportation through administrative actions available to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. When asked what this announcement means for him and his family, Mr. Neyoy Ruiz says, “We continue to feel strong and supported by our community and will remain in Sanctuary as long as it takes to know our family will be allowed to remain together here in Tucson.”
From Cowan:
“Although ICE has not notified me in writing, we have seen the statement released by local ICE officials. The agency has reached a legitimate conclusion that Daniel Neyoy Ruiz is an excellent candidate for the favorable exercise of discretion and is not a priority for removal. We continue to call on ICE to formally stop his removal. The family, church community and I applaud the decision to not take immediate action to enforce his order of removal and we call on ICE to issue him a document that any law enforcement agency, including Customs and Border Protection, will not enforce his order of removal, or to grant other means that will ensure that his family can remain together. Only then will Daniel be able to leave Sanctuary and return to daily life with his family and his community.”
This article appears in May 15-21, 2014.
I think they should up his priority for making such a spectacle of himself. After all, the way they feds prosecute is typically to show that they can.
Dig deeper Mari. A reporter needs to find out whose Drivers License he presented when stopped, and whose Social Security Numbet he frauduently hacked when “working” here for more than a decade? Who did he work for and why aren’t charges pending against the employer under existing law? As everyone reminds us he broke no laws. D.N.R. needs to just go to Mexico and come back across the border within the week as the rest of the deported illegals are doing. It’s all a big joke, and the joke is on U.S. Rule of law.
Why do I have to spend my tax money on locking up illegals? I would think it would cost less to send them back to the border.
In most countries in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, a foreign couple who have a child inside a foreign country doesn’t grant citizenship to the child. It is mostly a peculiarity of American law, most countries don’t allow ‘birthright’ citizenships, and even the 14th Ammendment is considered a little vague by primarily those on the right,
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Britain, also based on english common law, changed how they award citizenship in 1981, requiring at least one person to be a British citizen. Technically, “invaders” aren’t “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” of American law, and if they entered the U.S. and had children, then these children wouldn’t be U.S. citizens under current U.S. law.
Are immigrants invaders? I think that this is where touchy subjects such as kids waving American/Mexican flags in the U.S. during Cinco de Mayo come up, and studies showing that some Latino communities aren’t assimilating quickly into the U.S. culture, and aren’t learning English fast enough.
Probably, a lot of past waves of immigrants were considered “invaders” by who was living in the U.S. at the time, though perhaps Irish/Italians/Germans immigrated more easily, and adopted American languages and English more quickly. Probably, a good number of Latinos will become the “whites” of tomorrow, integrating into American culture and speaking only English, and within decades becoming indistinguishable from most other U.S. citizens.
While we focus on immigration reform, which is needed, Mexico is focused on taking it to the next level. I have been on a business tour of Nogales, Sonora. We are seeing incredible growth in the Maquila’s and job creation. The younger business people in Mexico have been educated in America and are implementing free market practices that break the traditions of the oligarch. This is transforming Mexico. Soon they won’t need to come here. Sadly if we keep going in the socialist direction we are going we will be moving there.
I find the word “invaders” interesting. Remember, the white Eurocentric Spanish “invaded” this land, took it from the indigenous in what is now USA and Mexico. Then re invaded what is much of the southwest USA and took it again. Crossing the border that we share with Mexico is nothing new. It was an organic migration both ways for many centuries. If one flies over parts of New Mexico near Chaco Canyon, ancient trails/roads are still visible as trade routes from northern New Mexico to what is now Mexico City. The border is an artificial man made debacle. The war on drugs (if one accepts the nomenclature “war”) is being lost. The war on illegal migration is being lost. Do you like spending your tax dollars on lost wars? Do you like spending tax dollars on foolish walls that do nothing to stop the organic migration? Do you like spending your tax dollars on a highly militarized border, that is ineffective? How about spending your tax dollars on a senate and house of representatives that are equally dysfunctional? Answer those questions honestly, then recall history correctly and remember who was here first and who did the invading. There has to be a better way to fix this. These are humans, just like the humans we fortunate whities descended from. Unless you are a Native American Indian, everyone who lives in the United States of America is either an immigrant or the decedent of one.