Federal Judge in Oregon Orders Immediate Release of Asylum Seeker From ICE Detention

'Our client is now home': Lawyers successfully petition release of man detained by ICE

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — One man is back home after a successful hearing at immigration court. The man, identified as YZLH, was arrested last month after his immigration hearing in downtown Portland, just one of the steps many asylum seekers take to become lawful U.S. citizens.  He has been released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Tacoma, Washington, and he's now back home in Newport, Oregon, with his family. Kotek signs …

Federal Judge Orders Release of Mexican Migrant Seeking Asylum

A federal judge ordered that a Mexican migrant seeking asylum should be released after being in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention for roughly a month.

Federal judge orders Mexican migrant seeking asylum to be released by ICE

A federal judge in Oregon has ordered the release of Mexican migrant who had been held in an ICE detention facility for nearly a month after agents arrested him moments after a routine asylum hearing.

Bethlehem man with pending asylum case showed up to a routine ICE check-in. He has been in detention for a month.

Edwin Sanchez, a Bethlehem resident from Colombia, was detained by ICE after a routine check-in. He was not charged with any crimes.

Judge orders asylum seeker detained by ICE agents in Portland released

A U.S. District Court judge in Portland order the man who had been living in Newport to be immediately released from a Tacoma detention center.

Federal judge in Oregon orders immediate release of asylum seeker from ICE detention

The man at the center of the debate listened by video from a nondescript, white-walled room at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma.